Almost in every apartment you need to find a solution to save the clothes accumulated clothes somewhere, and often people choose for storage wardrobe. The cabinet is a convenient and practical thing, but it doesn't always fit into the interior, being cumbersome and monotonous. You can revive this design by creating a different decor. Recently, many cabinets are made with a variety of stained inserts, reliefs, mirrors, etc.
Scheme and dimensions of the cabinets.
But if you already have a simple model, and you want to somehow transform it and revive, then the tips will help you, how to make a cabinet decor with your own hands.
Methods requiring paints
Decoupage
Cabinet door assembly scheme.
This method is suitable for the decor of any surfaces: wood array, chipboard, MDF, plastic, glass and mirrors.
If your wardrobe is made of wood, chipboard or MDF, then decoupage on its doors will be made as follows:
- Separate the places to which the pattern will be applied, fine-grained sandpaper, so as to remove the extra lacquer or paint from the surface and make it smooth.
- Cover these places with acrylic varnish and leakage (for this is used special acrylic soil). Then get raised again, apply varnish and primer.
- Attach the pattern.
- Cover his varnish.
- Next, make it possible if there is a need, drawing with acrylic paints - this will give the image of the liveliness, as if it is a handwritten picture.
- Cover the work with varnish in several layers (from 7).
- Collect and additionally decorate cracker techniques, for example.
- Apply the finishing layer of varnish: better if it is an alkyd or yacht varnish, - so it will not be worried that your creation will last long. But you can do and acrylic, because the wardrobe is rarely in a room with high humidity.
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Important! Each new layer (whether it is a layer of varnish, drawing acrylic paints or soil) is applied to a fully exquisted previous one.
It should be remembered that each new layer of the decor is applied to the fully succeeded previous one.
Often a large mirror is built into the wardrobe. If you decorately decorated and it, then the decoupage technique is available for this surface:
- Pre-clean the mirror from all contaminants using alcohol solutions or special glass washing fluid.
- Cover the places where you are going to apply patterns, acrylic varnish.
- The dried lacquer layer cover the ground. And the soil is lacquered again.
- Collect.
- Attach the pattern and cut the lacquer again.
- Acrylic paints, perform artistic Dorivovka - add ornament with strokes or add new elements at all. In addition to acrylic paints, you can add patterns and other elements using special stained-glass paints.
- Cover your creation once again varnish and polish. Again, you can use the effect of craklers, etc. After that, apply the finishing layer of varnish.
By the way, by means of stained-glass paints, you can make a full-fledged design of the mirror, without resorting to the decoupage.
Painting and painting
When painting should not forget about the style of the interior.
If you decide to paint your wardrobe with your own hands, then you have a time-consuming work:
- Before you start painting furniture from chipboard, wood or MDF, you need to prepare the surface. Skill it and cover the layer of alkyd primer.
- When the alkyd primer dries, apply acrylic primer over it.
- Then start painting with a roller or brush. It is better to use alkyd paints or oil. Apply a minimum of 2 layers.
If the surface of the cabinet is not damaged, then it is better to leave it safe. If you really want something new, then make a drawing using a stencil or if you have a talent in drawing, make a drawing yourself with acrylic paints. Such decor will be different in originality.
- Places where the image will be applied to work with an eyebroken and drive acrylic soil.
- Now you can create! Draw everything that your soul, not forgetting, of course, about the style of the interior, so that the cabinet decor does not spoil the overall picture. Draw a better small elements: patterns, flowers, etc. So the likelihood of "not fit" into the total harmony is reduced.
- When the paint is driving, cover it with several layers of acrylic varnish (approximately 6-10).
- And in conclusion, skill surface.
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Methods that do not require paints
Using photo stocks
To finish the cabinet, photographs are suitable for doors. You may have to cut them slightly: Standard Wallpaper for doors have a size of 86x220 cm. Using photo wallpapers, you can make original images on your wardrobe.
- Before sticking the wallpaper, degrease the surface.
- Start a photo wallpaper using PVA glue. But to lacquered surfaces it is better to glue a photo wallpaper with a special self-adhesive reverse side.
Mosaic
For mosaic on the doors it is better to use an acrylic mosaic or glass. Ceramic is too heavy and bulky.
- Pre-clean the surface where you are going to glue a mosaic.
- Seam the surface with a pencil to make a smooth item.
- Attach the mosaic to the glue "moment", and better on liquid nails.
Here are some unpaired and original ways to decorate the cabinet exist. Create with pleasure and rejoice in what you create!