In the attics of old rural houses, you can find funny vintage things that can be used in the modern interior, giving the room a unique charm. The most suffer from improper storage wooden things. They lose the brightness of the paint pattern of the drawing on the cover, the surface of the internal and outer walls. To seek services to professionals from restorers is very expensive.
Restoration of the old chest do it yourself, the process is painstaking, but very entertaining.
General repair actions
You can give a new life to the old chest in several ways, but at the very first stage it is necessary to put the form of an enhanced object in order. If it is disappeared so much that it takes shape or even disassembled into the components, it is necessary to drink wood with water. To do this, you need to score water in the bath and put a part of a wooden object into it for a while. For each type of wood, the time of stay in water is individually. Birch and aspen are absorbed quickly, oak is much slower. The main thing is not to reap the workpieces in the water, otherwise they will not be collected, and the grooves will have to be written. The restoration of the ancient chest of such actions does not imply.
When assembling the grooves must be tightly in contact - it will give a certain rigidity of the design. If the gaps still remain the gaps, it is necessary to resort to the help of joinery glue and small pieces of cotton fabric, which will be needed to ensure the docking of the elements of the restored item.
The paint has shut and focused on spots? It must be removed, but before when creating chests, dyes were used, which absorbed into the top layer of wood. In the new version, the chest paint is better to give a simulator or a protective impregnation having a kel. To do this, with the help of the ruble, it is necessary to finely remove the top layer. Restoration of the old chest in this way is acceptable if there is no original drawing on it. Such a chest can simply be updated with modern means - impregnation and varnishes.
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Keep the vintage drawing of the chest
Restoration of an antique chest with her own hands with the image of Beregini, the deity guarding the genus from adversity and misfortune, requires a more detailed approach. Bereginina is a bird with a female face, in Russian epic, it can be found called an alkonost. A plumage, headdress, beads of this creature have a clear drawing. It will not be possible to restore such a chest in one day.
It is necessary to carefully remove the layer of old varnish, apply a protective impregnation, give it to absorb and with the help of acrylic paints with a thin brush draw all elements of the decor.
Before covering the chest with a renovated pattern of varnish, you can give it a kind of aging. The drawing can be used by the crust lacquer, it will give the effect of cracks on the paint. So the old chest will look more believable, but the drawing will become brighter and distinguishable. Sometimes on the chest you can find a rooster with a wondrous tail, in the number of feathers in the tail you can judge the antiquity of the genus. This drawing to paint with your own hands is also not easy, because each tail of the tail of the tail is the branch of the family tree.
With the help of modern materials, the drawing can be transformed into 3D or give it a light mesh of cracks inside the lacquer coating.
Decoupage of a monophonic chest
Decoupage is one of the directions of contemporary art on painting on the fabric or solid surface. In the literal translation, this word indicates cut. Decoupage of wood surface can be done with the help of drawings neatly cut from fabric, sticking them and covering with varnish, giving a variety of effects using various compositions. So there was a decoupage at the very beginning of its development. Pictures on the Internet, paintings reproduction, combination of photos with colorful images of the frames can serve as a subject for modern design.
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You can perform decoupage with your own hands in various ways, including the method of transferring an image from a paper carrier to a metal, wooden or other solid surface by means of special quick-drying solvents.
This process looks like this:
- A picture or photo of the desired format is printed on the printer.
- A special solvent is applied on the decorated surface.
- The drawing is applied to the treated surface, which will turn out to be a mirror image.
- Next, you can make bright accents with acrylic paints with some detail.
- After drying the translated or painted pattern, it is necessary to secure the effect with the help of finishing varnishing.
Wanting to get a 3D effect or vintage version of the design you need to use the appropriate solutions and materials. The drawing will be better highlighted if the chest paint, and do not emphasize wood texture.
Decoupage will help to decorate the chest not only with flowers or other pictures on napkins, black and white photos with a frame available in specialized stores, but also copied pictures of famous artists, their own photos, which liked drawings from books.
Wanting to make a decoupage from the book drawing with your own hands, there is no need to spoil the book, it is enough to copy the image to the computer (in any convenient way), give it the necessary size and print on the printer. Choosing a solvent, you need to pay attention to which type of printer drawings it is intended - color or black and white.
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