Types of furniture painting, step-by-step decoration at home

Types of painting

The choice of one or another type of painting primarily depends on skills and abilities:

1. People who are not endowed with artistic talent can settle for simple decorative painting of furniture. It consists of applying small, simple ornaments or patterns to the surface. To simplify the process, paint of one shade is used, sometimes a ready-made stencil for painting furniture. This type of decoration is suitable for interior items in a modern or classic style. In the second case, gilding is often used, which gives the furniture a noble “palace” gloss.
2. Artistic painting of any furniture is a more complex process. It requires from the performer not only drawing ability, but also patience. Painstaking work can consist of many stages, each of which is done by hand and includes careful drawing of details, mixing paints, selecting different shades, as well as the use of additional chemical compounds to create decorative effects. This type of painting can be a complex ornament or a real painting.

A separate type is artificial aging. The method is used when you want to give an object a touch of antiquity. This type of decor may include:

• patination;
• craquelure (cracking of paint);
• use of gilded paint;
• creation of artificial abrasions, dents, imitation of traces of damage by insects.

Whatever method is chosen, painting furniture is always an exciting process, which, with the right approach, will allow you to get an exclusive piece of furniture.

Decorative painting

Artistic

Patination

Craquelure

Gilding

Artificial aging

Design of individual rooms

Locker room

Reasons for the popularity of high-tech sofas, types of models
When entering a group from the street, a child and his parents find themselves in a locker room, which means that at first glance this room should attract attention with its brightness and interesting, educational stories

There are information boards on the walls. They must correspond to the theme of the name of the kindergarten and group. Clothes boxes should be colorful. Renovating this children's room requires creativity.

The floor near the boxes must be covered with carpet, since children have the habit of walking barefoot. Benches should be placed in the middle of the locker room or along the lockers to make it more convenient for children to dress and put on their shoes.

Play and study room

Typically, in kindergartens, children conduct classes and eat in the same room, so the furniture should be comfortable and meet the standards.

We paint the walls or wallpaper them in bright but non-aggressive colors; green, blue, light blue, yellow will do.

Drawings should be educational, but not greatly distract the child’s attention from food and the learning process

• The playing area should be bright and colorful. For younger groups, you can paint the walls with various episodes from fairy tales. For older children, choose educational pictures.
• The floor in the play area must be covered with a warm and soft carpet.
• Toy cabinets must be strong and non-traumatic, and securely fastened.

Bedroom

In this room, children relax. When choosing a bedroom design in a kindergarten, you need to use calm, soft colors - blue, beige, light green.

Furniture for sleeping should be suitable for the child’s height, meet all the requirements of sanitary standards and be comfortable.

Since children sleep during the daytime, there is a need to darken the room. Therefore, when choosing curtains, we give priority to dense natural fabrics, plain soothing colors.

When thinking about the design of curtains for a kindergarten, we are guided by the following requirements:

• environmental friendliness and naturalness of materials;
• compliance with sanitary and fire safety standards;
• durability and practicality of fabrics;
• compliance with the interior of the room;
• reliability of structures on which curtains and curtains are attached.
• The ceiling can be decorated in the form of a starry sky or whitewashed.

What furniture is it used for?

This type of decor is best suited for furniture made from natural wood that has never been painted or varnished. This material reacts well to paint, its textured surface prevents it from spreading, and the wood lends itself well to processing - sanding, creating additional effects. With the right choice of paint and varnish coatings, you can paint on furniture made of other materials - plastic, MDF with acrylic coating, glass or metal.

Compliance with all stages, which include surface preparation, direct painting and finishing with protective compounds, will allow you to preserve the design for a long time.

Decorating furniture with painting has a number of advantages:

• exclusivity - the opportunity to get a unique piece of furniture;
• saving money - using technology you can restore old furniture, turning it into a real masterpiece;
• the opportunity to show imagination and creative skills;
• bringing family members closer together - work can be done together with children, then it will turn into an exciting game.

Types of furniture facades, options for their design
As for the type of furniture, it will be easier for beginners to work with smooth surfaces of tables, chairs and cabinets. After practicing, you can move on to more complex objects. If the furniture has different decorative elements, such as scrollwork or engraving, painting will take more time.

Natural wood

Plastic

MDF

Glass

Metal

The advantages of the decor will be:

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• relatively low price even compared to photo printing
• possibility of hiding coating defects
• complete change in room design.
• you can create absolutely any design or make a whole picture on the modules and kitchen doors.
• the paints are odorless and harmless.
• kitchen facades and aprons can be safely washed
• It is possible to make a glow-in-the-dark design using luminescent light-accumulating paints
• You can paint with fluorescent paints, which will glow in ultraviolet light and create marvelous images.

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Required materials and tools

The most important “participant” in the painting process is paint. Its correct choice for a certain material from which the furniture is made will achieve the desired effect. The most versatile paint is acrylic. It lays perfectly on any surface in an even layer, has no unpleasant odor, and dries very quickly. For painting on wood, regular gouache or watercolor is also often used.

The most popular way to decorate children's furniture is to use butterfly stencils.

Before applying paint, the object must be primed with a special compound that will fill all microcracks on the surface and level it. Varnish is used as a finishing coat. It will protect painted furniture from damage and help maintain the brightness of the colors for a long time. Among modern compositions, acrylic varnish is in demand. Moreover, it can be either transparent or tinted, which is appropriate to use when aging.

During work you will also need other tools and consumables:

• sandpaper with different grits (coarse - for use before applying primer and fine - for finishing and creating additional effects);
• brushes - it is better to have a set of flat and round brushes, large and small, for painting the entire area or drawing small details;
• roller - it is more convenient to use if you need to apply a background to a flat surface immediately before painting;
• a simple pencil and a ruler - for sketching and marking when forming an ornament.

Updating the interior with recessed furniture lamps

This basic set will allow you to easily paint furniture yourself.

Options for updating old cabinets

Do-it-yourself restoration of antique furniture

Furniture fashion is democratic. Therefore, any idea regarding the finishing of cabinets is accepted as a manifestation of the designer’s individuality.

Lovers of minimalism find furnishings in Ikea stores. Those who have original taste remake things. They are repainting a new blue cabinet pink with beige stripes. Or they decorate it with a mosaic or a dot pattern. You can see how a set with a wood finish is completely transformed when it is painted black or white.

Using enamel or varnish to update a wardrobe or wardrobe is not the only option. The furniture is covered with fabric, covered with arakal, and decoupaged. From the many ways to transform interior items, everyone can choose their own.

Decoration stages

Regardless of what material the furniture is made of, the main stages of painting will be the same:

1. Prepare the surface using high-grit sandpaper. This will create rough spots that the paint will fill in, making it last longer.
2. A primer is necessary to ensure that the paint goes on smoothly and does not crack or crumble over time.
3. If necessary, apply background paint. Moreover, it is better to make a two-layer coating with thorough drying after each stage.
4. Drawing a sketch of the image with a simple pencil (if a stencil is not used).
5. The main stage is creating the drawing itself. If multiple shades are used, it is important to dry each layer.
6. Finish coating with protective varnish. It is advisable to do it twice.

Only following the correct technology will allow you to create furniture with a pattern that will not fade or lose its attractiveness even after many years.

Creating a Sketch

Choosing a design or design can be quite a difficult process. Hand-painted furniture itself can look very original and, of course, will be a unique item. But the main thing is that it fits harmoniously into the interior. Therefore, first of all, you need to build on an already existing style.

The simplest drawings to perform are:

• geometric ornaments and patterns;
• butterflies, for drawing which it is advisable to use stencils;
• abstractions in the form of circles, squares or curls;
• vegetables and fruits - suitable for painting kitchen furniture.

Today, the use of ethnic motifs in the interior is very important, so you can opt for national ornaments. But, most likely, drawing such a drawing will require artistic skills from the author. For example, painting furniture in the traditional Russian style can refer to folk crafts from different regions of Russia. These include such recognizable Russian paintings as Khokhloma, Gzhel, Zhostovo, Palekh and Gorodets.

To create a sketch, you can print a suitable drawing on paper of the required size and transfer it with a simple pencil to the surface, observing the proportions. The easiest way is to use ready-made or self-created stencils and templates, which are suitable for painting not only furniture, but also walls.

Preparing the structure

How long an object with an image printed on it will remain presentable and the colors will remain bright depends on the preparation. If new furniture is to be used, the preparation process only includes sanding the surfaces with sandpaper and priming.

Variety of furniture panels, their advantages and main parameters

If the product has already been used, preparation will take longer. The surfaces need to be processed more thoroughly with sandpaper to remove all dirt and old paintwork. It is also necessary to inspect the furniture for cracks and nicks. To eliminate the former, you will need a special putty, and nicks can be removed by careful sanding with sandpaper. As a result, the surface should be absolutely smooth and even.

Grinding

Primer

painting

The choice of paint is very important. After the sketch is approved, it is necessary to select the full palette of colors that are present in the drawing. If acrylic paint is used, it will be much more convenient and economical to buy different colors, which are mixed into the main white composition in order to obtain the desired shades.

The painting process itself can take a couple of hours or several days. For example, if you use stencils and spray paint, applying the design will be easy. It is only important to secure the stencil to the surface so that it does not “move” during the process of spraying paint. If the image is complex and includes many shades, before applying each layer it is necessary to allow the previous one to dry thoroughly.

The decoupage technique is quite simple to implement. The method of applying an image in this way involves the use of napkins with a beautiful pattern. Moreover, if the paper is three-layer, only the top layer is left, which is transferred to the furniture surface using PVA glue. If necessary, additional elements are drawn.

Consolidate the result

This step is mandatory. If the applied pattern is not fixed to the furniture, even the most durable paints will eventually wear off or fade under the influence of sunlight. To fix the result on surfaces of any material, it is most convenient to use colorless acrylic varnish. The composition is applied to the furniture in an even layer using a brush. It is important to ensure that there are no smudges or drops. It is better to varnish twice - since acrylic varnish dries very quickly, it will not take much time.

Hand-painted furniture will become a truly exclusive piece of furniture. As you improve your skills, you can gradually move from simple drawings to more complex ones, mastering new techniques.

Let's consider the difference between kitchens with photo printing and hand-made decor.

You can buy sets with photo printing with your own design only to order; for some time you will have to wait for such a kitchen from production. Moreover, in addition to the production time, photo printing will also take some time. As a rule, these periods are at least 2-4 weeks.

The quality of color reproduction may be somewhat distorted, and the clarity that you would like may not be there, because photo printing technologies do not provide 100% correspondence to the picture. It is possible to modify and paint your existing kitchen only by hand to suit every taste.

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How to Update Kitchen Cabinets

The kitchen is a wet and frequently used room. The furniture in this room is exposed to temperature, steam, moisture and mechanical influence, so kitchen cabinets are more likely to lose their original appearance than furniture for the living room or bedroom. You can restore an old cabinet in the kitchen by painting or finishing the products with rattan fabric.

What paint to paint? Acrylic moisture-resistant composition or alkyd enamel are suitable. An updated cabinet with a glossy shine looks impressive.

The procedure for painting kitchen cabinets is as follows:

• Preparing furniture - the doors are removed from their hinges, thoroughly cleaned of dirt, degreased, washed with soda to remove all dirt;
• Removing the old coating - all surfaces of the kitchen cabinet are treated first with coarse-grained sandpaper, and then with fine-grained sandpaper, and wiped off dust with a dry cloth;
• An acrylic or alkyd primer is applied with a roller or brush - depending on the chosen paint material. The primer is allowed to dry;
• How to repaint a closet? Apply the first layer of paint thinly using brushes or rollers. After drying, apply a second layer with a paint pad using longitudinal and transverse strokes;
• When the front side is dry, you can paint the edges of the furniture parts and the inside. When working, do not press on the pad to avoid drips;

If the resulting color does not match the desired shade in terms of saturation and brightness, the product is painted again. The use of white color is suitable for any kitchen interior. The furniture is assembled using new fasteners and decorative fittings (handles, rails, moldings).

If, when disassembling the cabinet, you have difficulty unscrewing the fasteners, you can drop a little oil on the screws. You can also lubricate the doors so they don’t squeak.

Dressers, chests of drawers, and bedside tables are painted in the same way, but it is not necessary to use water-repellent paint for them - you can use oil, acrylic and alkyd compositions for interior work.

Idea 6. Striped wall

Striped walls not only look cool, but also visually correct the shortcomings of the room. For example, vertical stripes “raise” low ceilings, while horizontal stripes increase space and push walls apart.

It’s very easy to paint walls with stripes with your own hands; the main thing here is to carefully stick the masking tape and correctly calculate the optimal width and number of stripes.

• To find out the required number of stripes of the same width, but alternating in color, you need to divide the height or width of the wall by the desired width of the stripes. But there is one nuance - if the number of stripes is even, then along the edges of the wall the stripes will be of different colors. To make the number of stripes odd and the wall design symmetrical, you can “play” a little with the width of the stripes or simply divide the height or width of the wall by an odd number. For example, a wall 270 cm high can be decorated with 17 stripes 16 cm wide.

In order for the stripes under the ceiling and above the floor to be the same color, there must be an odd number of them

• It is desirable that the stripes have a width of 10-30 cm. A width of less than 10 cm will be too narrow, and more than 30 cm will be too wide and heavy.
• The best way to paint stripes is to use blue masking tape that can be removed without leaving a trace, without damaging the wall covering, and labeled “for crisp lines.”
• To ensure that the lines are smooth and clear, and the paint does not flow under the masking tape, use a small brush to paint along the tape and a larger brush to paint the main body of the strip. It is important to ensure that there is no excess paint on the brush. The movement of the brush should not be up and down along the tape, but left and right (across the tape).