New Grandma's chest: repair and restoration services wooden furniture

Buying new furniture - the event is always costly and troublesome. And to find a thing with a soul and a twist in the shops - a rare case. Look at the "old stock". Maybe on your cottage dusts solid grandmother's cupboard, which can be the best alternative to plywood kitchen cabinets? You just need to bring a little gloss, refresh the paint, wipe the cracks, so he re-decorated house of its kind. Our forum users tell us about simple and affordable techniques, alteration and restoration of furniture.

Wash off old paint

The first problem that arises before the restorers of furniture - to clear it of old paint and varnish. In the hands of the participating FORUMHOUSE Galushenki It turned out to be a Soviet bookcase - glass doors were covered with cheap film, broken shelves. Relatives stored therein banks, and certainly would like to send it to the trash, but new posts decided that the furniture can also be a decoration of the living room.

To remove the old paint, Galushenka Sanding the surface sander and sandpaper. In this case, such treatment was enough - though with difficulty, but the old paint came off evenly, exposing the wooden surface of the cabinet. Then new posts covered furnished two layers of black oil for furniture and lacquer, glass cleared and put in new shelves.

It is more difficult to remove the old paint and varnish from wood furniture, decorated with carved elements. In this case, as a rule, can not do without special tools -Nuwa using for this purpose a set of hand-cycles.

Before proceeding to the processing of furniture, it is best practice and to remove the paint with a piece of ordinary plywood.

Also remove old paint, you can use the washing AFL-1. Nuwaadvises treating the surface of small pieces - 10x10 cm, and not overdo the chemistry of the longer time, as indicated in the instructions, did not have time to soak the wood fiber and no more ugly divorces.

Nuwa (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- After application removers surface must cover film for 15-20 minutes (to remover did not dry and the coating uniformly descended), and then remove the old paint or varnish with a metal spatula, curly cycle without pressure or stiff non-metallic brush (from places curly thread). If after the first time it is necessary to use a stripper again, we do intermediate processing solvent furniture 646, then wipe several times with a damp soft cloth to dry.

Hide cracks, restoring chipped

At the cottage of our new posts AnnaSavva It stands a beautiful oak sideboard with carved glass of the early XX century. Wooden top perfectly preserved, but at the lower corners of the doors gnawed rats. Is it possible to restore the lost surface on their own? UchastnitsaFORUMHOUSELalioffers next outing - sawdust mix the epoxy resin and "ramp up" the missing corners, if in the future the buffet is designed for painting.

Eliminate defects in the not very valuable copies of furniture You can also use the modern shpatlevkok wood. If the wood chips or minor damage to the veneers have antique furniture, restore them better with the help of bone or fish glue mixed with sawdust (sanding). Bone glue made from animal bones, fish - from the swim bladder of sturgeon - finished formulations can now be found in the building or online stores easily.

Create a new layer

From that, with some furniture you have to deal, it depends on the type of coverage that you will use. Not long ago, an inexpensive wooden furniture, first tinted stains on decoctions of various plants, and then coated with pure, melted in a water bath or a wax mixed with turpentine in proportions 50/50. More valuable - primed natural drying oil or alkaline varnish and then covered with resin varnishes or polished alkaline varnish.

Create a coating on old technologies can be today, but many beginning restorers prefer to use modern coatings - special oils, stains and varnishes for furniture.

If you do not pursue the goal through transparent varnishes and stains to enhance the beauty and texture of wood, you can create an opaque color coat acrylic paints.

Popular today of vintage can be achieved using the technique decoupage krakelyurnogo and applying varnish - dries, it "draws" on the pre-painted surface characteristic cracks. Advice of our members of the forum on transforming furniture using decoupage and craquelure can be found in this topic.

sostarivayut

Today, in a fashion - a deliberately crude wooden furniture in rustic (village) style. That uchastnitsaFORUMHOUSEKostorama using brushes and paints decided to transform the shabby, but good-quality table top made of glued pine timber. Table new posts sanded and covered with two layers of dark brown acrylic paint - to get raznotona,Kostorama mix paint several shades. Then, the average thickness of the brush woman drawn strips, impose additional light and dark colors, simulating the texture of old wood and varnished in two layers. That's what happened in the end:

What swirls and streaks on the tree - just a drawing, according to Kostorama, Only noticeable up close. Throw furniture years and make it look antique possible, artificially aged wood and other, more sophisticated way. To begin with a wooden surface should be brushed - that is, to give it relief, characteristic of the old wood. Member forum Aib offers to perform this operation using metal attachments for drills. In his opinion, it is best suited brush 60-70 mm and a thickness of no more than 1 cm and larger - diameter of 120-150mm and thickness of 15-20mm.

Aib (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- The surface at high speeds on the growth of treated fibers. Beautifully turns out, if handled along the boards no more than 5-10% of the first small nozzle, and then, on the same grooves, wider, to smooth out the dimples.

After giving relief wood coated first layer and stain oshkurivayut sandpaper. Then - a second layer of stain, and grinding again, can be repeated again if desired. More information about the artificial aging of wood you can learn from this material.

Other interesting examples of rework and repair of furniture by our forum users can be found in this topic. Experience the restoration of antiques go here. We also suggest a look at our video clipRestoration of furniture.

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