Decorating old furniture can be a great alternative to throwing it away. Your imagination is an inexhaustible source of ideas. Do-it-yourself furniture decoration will help to realize them. You will need a little effort, and the old chest of drawers will be able to turn into a designer thing. The set of necessary tools is minimal.
Furniture decoration can be done by painting the old chest of drawers or hand-painted. If your artistic talents are far from ideal, you can find hundreds of stencil options on the Internet and just use them. It is worth noting that many
antiques decorated in this way are sold at online auctions for crazy money.
Decorating furniture with a large number of drawers will allow you to play with the gradient. To do this, you need white acrylic paint and color pigments. Different mixing ratios allow you to achieve different shades of the same color. Such color transitions can play perfectly, especially in the rays of sunlight.
In general, experimentation with flowers is not necessary. If you prefer dark-colored furniture, then you can use unusual fittings to accentuate attention.
Dressing furniture in a nursery should come from a well-known rule: the more flowers, the more interesting for the child. It is worth paying attention to the original fittings. Pastel colors will help you to leave the charm of antiquity of a piece of furniture selected for alteration.
If you like decorating furniture with a geometric pattern, then you can use a mounting tape that will not allow you to break the boundaries and create straight lines. You can paint the furniture light gray, and after the paint dries, use the mounting tape. It can be glued both with straight, clear lines, and curved corners. Paint of a suitable shade is applied on top, and as a result, you get updated furniture without much effort and expense. Do not forget about the use of unusual accessories, it will help give the piece of furniture a finished look.
Remaking old furniture can also be done using decoupage technique. To do this, you just need to buy beautiful napkins, special paper at the store, and even regular maps can come in handy. If you are a lover of photographs, then furniture can easily turn into a real photo album in plain sight.
Sometimes in order to create some unusual item from old furniture, it is not necessary to try to turn it into a new one. Sometimes aging gives a more interesting effect.
You can use lace to create beautiful interior items. It will be a kind of stencil. Before you start painting through lace, it is best to paint the piece of furniture with plain paint, in dark or light colors, depending on your taste. After the paint layer has dried, it is necessary to fix the lace over the pieces and paint the surface through it with the help of paint from an aerosol spray. When you remove the lace, you get an original and nothing like a picture. To fix the result, after the paint dries, it is necessary to cover it with a layer of varnish. And remember - the details are crucial.