Do you want to create a unique interior decor with your own hands? Learn furniture painting tips. This will make it surprisingly beautiful and at the same time functional decoration for the kitchen or living room.
Where to begin?
Recently, demand for all hand-made products has grown significantly. This also applies to furniture. Any copyrighted item is exclusive and is quite expensive. If you have free time and a desire to create a work of art with your own hands, then it is worth mastering the technique of painting furniture. By choosing a single style or a specific plot, you can make a whole set. And if you complement it with the same elements in the decor of the walls and ceiling, you will get an amazingly beautiful man-made living space, which all your relatives and friends will envy.
Materials used
If you have no idea about furniture painting and never held a brush in your hands, you should first learn the decoupage technique, which uses ready-made images for drawing on a prepared surface. Only some elements can be completed manually, and stencils are often used that greatly facilitate the work.
The second option is to paint the furniture with acrylic paints. It requires a lot of time, effort and patience, but the result is worth it. As a first experiment, it is better to take a small object: a stool, a chair. You can turn an ordinary wooden box into a great chest for shoes or other things. It is worth noting that the furniture that you will paint should be made of natural wood, do not use substitutes. You create an exclusive that should look luxurious.
You will need acrylic paints. They create a waterproof surface and are great for wood. They are sold in sets or in separate tubes. You can purchase only those shades that are useful to you, in the package of the required volume. It is better to buy brushes synthetic or with mixed nap. Now even special types are designed for acrylic. Natural is better not to use, as they can stick together and deteriorate, especially among novice artists. Brushes should be both wide, designed to fill large areas of the background, and thin, used to study small parts.
You may also need a special primer for surface treatment before painting, but this layer is not always done. If you decide to create the effect of cracks, to age the surface, you will have to buy additional compounds specially designed for these purposes. There are also improvised tools that allow you to get similar effects: PVA glue, varnish, gelatin, egg white. Special blends will also be required to create iridescent, pearlescent parts or textured surface effects. For starters, you can try to do the usual painting without additional decorations.
Exclusive for baby's room
Very often, young mothers try to do something special for their babies, including in the interior of his bedroom or playroom. The painting of children's furniture was popular in Soviet times. One could often see in preschool institutions neat little tables and chairs, made under Khokhloma. They are now sold and in demand.
So you can do a hand-made kit too. If the child has already grown up to paint, you can turn this into a process of joint creativity.
Here, plots of children's fairy tales are perfect. In the girlโs room, handmade furniture in the style of the princessโs castle will look very cute.
Provincial style
If you decide to make an exclusive decorative element for the kitchen, bedroom or living room, choose the French version of the country style. It combines the splendor of southern nature and the sea. The painting of furniture in the Provence style involves the use of certain tones and patterns. Color may be as follows:
- white;
- cream;
- light green;
- lavender;
- brown;
- shade of light wood.
Painted in this style are furniture elements such as cupboards, chests of drawers, bookcases, cabinets with mezzanines and drawers, benches, benches, tables and tables, massive dining tables. The choice is great enough. Facades are usually decorated with floral patterns. A characteristic feature of painting Provence style furniture is artificial aging, the effect of cracks, breakaway pieces of the paint layer. This can all be done independently, combining several different techniques.
So, you have learned about the excellent possibilities of hand-painted furniture with acrylic paints. Choose the right style and turn a regular wooden table, chair or stool into a work of art.