Do you want to create a unique interior decor with your own hands? Learn furniture painting tips. This will make a surprisingly beautiful and at the same time functional decoration for the kitchen or living room.
Where to start?
Recently, the demand for all hand-made goods has grown significantly. This also applies to furniture. Any author's thing is exclusive and is quite expensive. If you have free time and a desire to create a work of art with your own hands, then you should master the technique of painting furniture. By choosing a single style or a specific plot, you can make a whole set. And if you add it with the same elements in the decoration of walls, ceiling, you will get a man-made living space of amazing beauty, which all your relatives and friends will envy.
Materials used
If you have no idea about painting furniture at all and have never held a brush in your hands, you should first master the decoupage technique, which uses ready-made images to be applied to a prepared surface. Only some elements can be completed manually, and stencils are often used,making the job much easier.
The second option is painting furniture with acrylic paints. It requires a lot of time, effort and patience, but the result is worth it. As a first experience, it is better to take a small object: a stool, a chair. You can turn an ordinary wooden box into a great chest for shoes or other things. It is worth noting that the furniture that you will paint should be made of natural wood, do not use substitutes. You create an exclusive that should look luxurious.
You will need acrylic paints. They create a waterproof surface and are great for wood. They are sold in sets or individual tubes. You can purchase only those shades that are useful to you in the package of the required volume. It is better to buy brushes synthetic or with mixed pile. Even special types designed for acrylic are now being produced. It is better not to use natural ones, as they can stick together and deteriorate, especially for novice artists. Brushes should be both wide, designed to fill large areas of the background, and thin, used to work out small details.
You may also need a special primer to treat the surface before painting, but this layer is not always done. If you decide to create the effect of cracks, age the surface, you will have to buy additional compounds specifically designed for this purpose. There are also improvised means that allow you to obtain similareffects: PVA glue, varnish, gelatin, egg white. To create iridescent, mother-of-pearl parts or a textured surface effect, special mixtures will also be required. For starters, you can try to do the usual painting without additional decorations.
Exclusive for baby's room
Very often, young mothers try to do something special for their baby, including in the interior of his bedroom or playroom. Painting children's furniture was popular back in Soviet times. It was often possible to see neat tables and chairs in preschool institutions, made under Khokhloma. They are still on sale and in demand.
So you can make a hand-made kit too. If the child is already old enough to paint with paints, you can turn this into a process of joint creativity.
The plots of children's fairy tales are perfect here. In the girl's room, handmade furniture in the style of a princess castle will look very cute.
Provincial style
If you decide to make an exclusive decorative element for the kitchen, bedroom or living room, choose the French version of the country style. It combines the splendor of southern nature and the sea. Furniture painting in the Provence style involves the use of certain tones and patterns. Color may be as follows:
- white;
- cream;
- light green;
- lavender;
- brown;
- shade of light wood.
Painting in this stylefurniture items such as sideboards, chests of drawers, bookcases, cabinets with mezzanines and drawers, benches, benches, tables and cabinets, massive dining tables. The choice is large enough. Facades are usually decorated with floral patterns. A characteristic feature of furniture painting in the Provence style is artificial aging, obtaining the effect of cracks, chipped pieces of the paint layer. This is all quite possible to do on your own, combining several different techniques.
So, you have learned about the great possibilities of hand-painting furniture with acrylic paints. Choose the style that suits you and turn an ordinary wooden table, chair or stool into a work of art.
