If the furniture is tired or outdated, this is not a reason to throw it away. With a little paint, varnish, glue and time on hand, you can do your own decoupage of furniture with wallpaper, turning it into an exclusive interior detail.
What is decoupage
The term "decoupage" came from France, in translation it means "cut". In simple terms, the process resembles the creation of an application, which is varnished on top. Some also use acrylic paints in their work. With the help of furniture decoupage with wallpaper, the old thing gets a second life. Most often, this decorating technique is used to make a household item exclusive, as well as to mask scuffs, bumps, or to stylize it to match the interior of a room or house.
Types of decoupage
There are different ways to do decoupage. The final result and effect completely depends on the chosen method:
- Traditional - pasting the plane of the product and applying varnish from above. Asmaterial can be used paper, wallpaper, decoupage napkin. Sometimes postcards are used to decorate this technique.
- Reverse decoupage - glue is applied to the material from the outside, and the fragment is fixed to colorless glass.
- Artistic style - a pattern is superimposed on a painted plane in such a way that a single artistic panel is obtained.
- Decopatch - the product is completely pasted over with various pieces of material. For work, elements cut with curly scissors or torn by hand are used. They are glued very tightly to each other.
- Volumetric decoupage - the finished product is embossed. Most often, this technique is used for the Baroque style.
Execution technique
Decoupage of furniture with wallpaper belongs to the classical method, so the standard gluing technique is used. For work, you can take any kind of wall paintings. Vinyl type should be soaked in water first to separate the paper backing from them. The product can be pasted over with a piece of wallpaper with an image or a solid canvas.
Are you going to do decoupage, but you don’t know how to glue wallpaper on chipboard furniture? To do this, you must use a special fixative, since PVA will not cope with thick paper. Also, it is recommended to use a rubber roller during the process for smoothing and better grip.
Decoupage furniture with wallpaper
Stale Pieceswallpaper, combined with imagination and special glue, can turn a boring piece of furniture into an exclusive, original thing. For this you will need:
- Wallpaper glue.
- Roller and brushes.
- Different types of scissors: large, pointed and small.
- Ruler.
- Sandpaper.
- Decoupage glue.
- Acrylic paints.
- Acrylic lacquer.
- Wallpaper.
- Item for decoration.
Preparation
The process of decoupage of old furniture with wallpaper begins with surface preparation. The working base must be completely flat, only in this case the image and varnish will hold well. So, the process consists of the following steps:
- Cleaning and wiping the surface of the product.
- Filling small cracks with filler, and large cracks with putty. Drying.
- Smoothing the surface with medium hard sandpaper. To obtain a smooth surface, fine is used. These are two successive stages.
- Cleaning the surface from dust and coating with a primer or paint.
Creating decoupage
Do-it-yourself furniture decoupage with wallpaper is carried out in the following sequence:
- After the preparation of the product and the absolute drying of the primer (paint), the preparation of the material (in our case, wallpaper) begins. They are adjusted to the size of the product, taking into account the allowances on each side, approximately 7 cm.
- Apply special glue to the work surface and wallpaper. The composition is aged for 5 minutes for impregnation.
- The wallpaper or clippings with the image are glued to the furniture. For smoothing it is recommended to use a rubber roller. You need to work from the middle to the edges. All movements must be extremely careful, because the paper impregnated with glue is easily torn.
- Everything is drying well.
- Excess material is cut off and the edges are polished with sandpaper.
- A layer of acrylic lacquer is applied over the decorative coating. Drying.
Interesting! To further decorate the surface of old furniture, you can use all sorts of elements - foil, book pages, glitter, favorite photos, feathers, dried flowers, lace and ribbons.
Creating a relief surface
The described workshop on decoupage of furniture with wallpaper can be complicated and make not a flat surface, but a relief one.
The preparatory stage is carried out in the same way as described above. After that, wallpaper is glued onto the finished surface and dried. When creating a relief surface, the first layer is the base one and sets the general background for the future composition.
Next, you need to prepare individual images or geometric shapes that will decorate the previously pasted furniture. Large elements are glued along the perimeter of the surface with a few centimeters indent from the edge. Smaller pictures are fixed on top of these fragments, theneven smaller and so on. In total, up to 20 layers can be made so that the elements around the perimeter become embossed. If geometric shapes are used for decoration, then the result should be the effect of a truncated pyramid. For pasting, it is better to take multi-colored, bright elements, then the product will turn out to be very interesting and unusual.
In the central part of the tabletop, you can place an application of leaves. If plants dried in autumn are taken for work, then they can be glued immediately. Summer fresh leaves must first be dried under a hot iron so that they do not rot under a layer of varnish.
To obtain an unusual, from an aesthetic point of view, effect, you can “walk” along the contour of the leaves with a colorless silicone sealant, it will add additional volume to the application. After finishing the decoration, the product is covered with acrylic varnish on top.
Additional moves
During the master class "Decoupage furniture with do-it-yourself wallpaper", or rather, at the end of it, you can use additional techniques:
- Craquelure - used to create an artificial effect of aging furniture. It appears as microscopic cracks. To do this, craquelure varnish is applied to the surface, and acrylic paint of the main shade is applied on top of it. In the process of drying, the coating cracks and the effect of antiquity is obtained.
- Patina - also used to create the illusion of antiques, but more often when it comes to metal elements. She darkens them.
- Worn –created by applying wax to the desired surface area. Next up is a coat of paint. After complete drying, the painted area is processed with sandpaper.
- Tinting - a small amount of pigment of the desired shade or sparkles is added to the varnish and the surface is covered with the resulting composition.
- Potal - silver, gold and other colors of metallic paints are used. It is sold in the form of a thin sheet, crumbs or in liquid form. Furniture decoupage masters advise the latter option, it is more convenient to use.
Ways to emphasize the style of the interior
In order for the furniture after decoupage to harmoniously fit into the interior of the room, it is necessary to use appropriate materials and patterns in the decoration process:
- Provence. Ideal - images of flowers in light green, blue and pink shades.
- Baroque. Embossed designs on furniture surfaces.
- Retro. Decoration of products with wallpaper in black and white checkered and striped.
- Oriental style. It is necessary to use wallpapers with appropriate motifs and patterns.
- Children's room. The choice is varied - the image of your favorite characters, numbers, letters, animals and more.
- Art Deco. Linear patterns in white and black.
Decoupage of furniture is not difficult, but only those who approach the issue creatively and follow the rules of application technique will be able to get a good result.
