Almost each of us has one, and maybe several items of old, still Soviet furniture. It can be a table and a chair, a wardrobe and a chest of drawers . Sooner or later the question will arise: what to do with such furniture? The easiest way to throw it away. But you can restore it. It's not such a difficult job as it might seem at first sight. Besides, she will not take too much money. We offer you several master classes on the restoration of old Soviet furniture with your own hands.
Restoration of an old chair
- Let's breathe new life into the old chair . That's how he looked before the restoration.
- First, we remove the old seat from it. Now we need to clean the old paint from the wooden parts of the chair. You can do it with sandpaper.
- Now take a piece of foam rubber to the size of the seat and tighten it with a strong cloth, fixing it from the wrong side. Sitting to the frame nailing furniture studs.
- It remains to paint our new chair and cover it with furniture varnish. And the restored chair is ready.
Restoration of the dresser
If you have dust in the closet old cabinet from the dressing table, now we will tell you how to restore this furniture with your own hands. For work you will need:
- sandpaper;
- putty on wood;
- black ink;
- acrylic primer;
- acrylic paint red, metallic;
- paper for the pattern pattern;
- white pencil;
- thin brush;
- varnish mordan and furniture;
- a leaf of gold leaf or a special crumb;
- wooden shield;
- nooks for fastening;
- self-tapping screws.
- Works on the restoration of such antique furniture with their own hands begin with a careful grinding of all surfaces of the pedestal with a grinding machine. In places where the machine does not pass, use sandpaper. Cracks are leveled using putty.
- We paint the cabinet with black ink.
- Inside the cabinet and drawers can be painted with red paint. In order for the paint to lie flat, cover all surfaces with acrylic primer.
- Prepare a template for the pattern of paper. To do this, on the folded four-fold sheet, draw the ornament you like and cut it out. After unfolding the template, we apply it to the surface of the curbstone and draw a white pencil.
- The resulting drawing is very carefully applied to the varnish mordan, made on a water basis. Follow the instructions on the bottle with varnish, soak for a while.
- Now very carefully put on your drawing a leaf of gold leaf, or sprinkle it with crumbs. Press the material with a cotton swab. Leave to dry for about half a day.
- Remove the remains of the decorative material from the picture. If there are empty areas - repeat the procedure to fill them.
- On the doors and drawers of the thumbs, draw a straight line under the ruler with smooth parallel lines in the form of a frame. With a very fine brush, carefully paint the resulting lines with metallic paint, alternating with gold, silver and copper colors. Cover the cabinet with several layers of varnish, each time giving it a good dry.
- From the wooden shield you need to cut out the back semicircular wall. Top the edge with a sandpaper. Cover the wall with black ink and do all the previous operations to decorate the wall. Covered and dried parts with corners and screws screw to the cabinet.
- Do all these operations and with wooden caskets decorating our curb on the edges.
- The restored exclusive curbstone will decorate your living room or bedroom.
If there is a desire and imagination, you can restore the polished, varnished and leather furniture yourself. And the guests in a good way will envy the renovated and modern interior of your home.