Decoupage - very elegant art, subject to everyone. Even if you are completely far from needlework, you still can easily master the decoupage. With this technique you can breathe new life into old furniture and decor elements. For example, a coffee table is not a remarkable thing. There are such tables in the house for everyone. But applying a decoupage, you will create a real work of art with your own hands, which most successfully decorate the design of your interior.
Selection of images
If you are new to decoupage, it is best to use special napkins to decorate the coffee table. Such napkins can be bought in needlework stores. Pictures on them can be the most diverse, choose the one that the soul will wish. In addition, decoupage napkins with relief are also found. They are manufactured by the method of transportation.
If your table is completely miniature, you can simply print the desired image on the printer. But if you plan to decorate a large coffee table, then the picture you will need a rather big one. In this case, an ordinary geographic map is suitable. Especially good this option will fit into English interior design.
The most experienced masters can use non-standard materials for work, such as lace, fabrics, old books, paper cuts, photos, photos. The complexity of the work is that non-standard material must first be thinned, and the decoupage wipes are immediately ready for operation.
Technique performance
Design with decoupage with your own hands is performed in several stages. We will analyze each of them:
- At the preparatory stage you need to remove the tabletop from the legs and carefully consider the old layer of paint from it. It must be done with a grinding machine. The smallest jar and drops of paint are removed by sandpaper. When the surface is ready, the countertop can be put back on the legs.
- After that it is important to remove all the gaps, defects and irregularities. You can make it with your own hands with the help of a regular putty. When you finish with work, let the table dry at least 3-4 hours.
- Now the table must be projected and you can start staining with acrylic. Such staining is a simple, but long-term. The fact is that with time from the acrylic, it can begin to come to commemorate dark spots, which will spoil the whole design. To do not happen, you need to paint the table in three layers. Each layer must be sinking for four hours.
- After acrylic, we apply a layer of varnish (the easiest way to use varnish in the canister). When the lacquer dries, the table will need to be overlapped again.
- Finally, the most creative process comes. You need to cut all images and come up with how they will be located on the table. It can be separate pictures (for example, flowers) or a solid complex pattern from fragments.
- The image must be put on the cellophane surface (for example, on a regular file) and carry out under the jet of water. The table should be lubricated with glue. Any glue is suitable, even PVA. Wet image should be carefully shifted on glue.
- When the glue gets dry, you need to apply the final layer of varnish. On this design with decoupage with your own hands is ready!
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Additional effects
To make your coffee table design look even more unusual, you can add additional effects to Decoupage:
- Craquelo - technique, which consists in creating artificial cracks. This type of decor is suitable for old interiors. Creamers are created using a thick layer of varnish and a hairdryer with hot air.
- With the help of wax and emery paper, you can create decorative scuffs with your own hands - the right sign of the Shebbi style chic.
- Patinating is another option of making a coffee table. Artificial darkening of the surface creates the feeling that hundreds of hands have been taken for it for many years.
- Palk is a decoupage using gold and silver paints. The coffee table with Pattolia looks extremely luxurious.
- Shading - Frequent reception in decoupage. With the help of paints and sponge, you can create a smooth transition from the pattern to the background.
- Toning is usually the final reception of the decoupage. It lies in the opening of the product by varnish, in which the sparkle added.
