Methods of furniture restoration by one's own hands

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Contents

  • 1 Restoration of upholstered furniture with your own hands
  • 2 Self painting and varnishing of wooden furniture parts
  • 3 More ideas on converting old furniture

If you look at the whole process, restoring furniture yourself is quite a simple task, and everything is much easier than it seems. However, you still have to work hard. Old furniture can not only be refreshed, but turned into beautiful and refined parts of any interior, give subjects a second life, give them innovations and make rarity elements of design.

Restoration of upholstered furniture by one's own hands

Upholstered furniture is one of the fastest aging, as it quickly loses color, the pattern becomes less noticeable, the fabric breaks, fades and is rubbed. And when the time comes to refresh the interior, the best way is to stock up on everything necessary and begin to restore old furniture yourself.

Most often, soft furniture requires only a constriction of the fabric, for this work you will need a set of spanners and screwdrivers, less often - hexagons, a sharp knife and a stapler for fixing the cloth and other auxiliary tools.

In order to restore the furniture with your own hands, you must first remove the cloth. To do this, perform the following sequence of actions:

  • dismantle the furniture into the elements of which it is composed;
  • remove large fasteners;
  • remove the cladding parts;
  • remove the cloth.


It is recommended during disassembly to carefully monitor the parts that are removed, since they have the property of getting lost. And then find them an original replacement, most likely, it will be difficult. Therefore, to the old furniture should be careful.

In order to update the old furniture yourself, it is necessary to choose a quality material for changing the skin. It should be strong enough with a small but thick pile. You can also use a genuine leather substitute or nubuck.

Remove trim from upholstered furniture

The old upholstery can be used as a template.

During the cutting of the new skin, the removed old fabric should be used as a pattern. So you can achieve maximum accuracy. But it is necessary not to forget about blanks for folds and seams.

Self-painting and varnishing of wooden furniture parts

When it comes to wooden parts of the product, most often restoring old furniture with your own hands is a repainting or varnishing. Everything begins with preparation. To do this, you must disassemble the object, the restoration of which will occur. With individual parts it will be easier to work. After that you can start preparing the surface.

Before restoring the furniture, it is necessary to prepare a large and fine sandpaper, several rags and a flat brush.

You should remove all old layers that covered the furniture. For this:

  • The surface is treated with large-sized sandpaper. At the same time, you need to be careful not to damage the invoice;
  • The brush removes dust;
  • Then, again, the treatment is done with a nugget, but with a more gentle surface;
  • In the end, wipe the product with a damp cloth and leave to dry.
Treatment of furniture with sandpaper

The wooden surface of the furniture needs to be treated with sandpaper.

It is necessary to follow these recommendations when processing wooden furniture surfaces:

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  • Sandpaper movements only along the fibers;
  • Dust should only be removed with a dry brush, not with a rag, in order not to block the cracks;
  • Work in a ventilated room.

Next, it is necessary to primer the surface using acrylic impregnation. Apply the primer with a roller or brush, depending on the shape and size of the furniture. After coating the product with the base and complete drying, you can proceed to painting.

Priming the surface of furniture

The treated wood is primed before painting

. If it is necessary for the wood texture to be visible, then one coat of diluted paint should be applied. And if you want to achieve the effect of factory painting, you need to apply a few uniform layers( depending on the density and nature of the selected paint).

After painting, you need to leave the furniture until the paint dries.

To complete the independent renovation of the furniture, you need to cover the parts with varnish. The varnish is applied with a roller, but better with a spray gun. When picking up acrylic lacquer in the sponge, you need to squeeze out the foam and squeeze the surface evenly. This procedure can be repeated several times.

More ideas on the transformation of old furniture

There are many ideas for hand-made furniture restoration, the most famous techniques are:

  • Decoupage is a simple and undemanding technique for the owner to restore wooden furniture on his own. You will need a napkin or paper with a picture, PVA glue, a brush and acrylic lacquer. The picture is cut out, and then pasted on the surface of the product, and after it is opened with a varnish;
Decoupage of furniture

Decoupage - gluing of cloth or paper on furniture

  • Shebbi-chic, the technique of artificial aging of a wooden surface. The tree is covered with a dark paint and allowed to dry, then rub with paraffin and a layer of laundry soap is applied with a brush. After that, a layer of light paint is applied. Finally with the help of sandpaper, the shabby attrition is done, and the furniture is varnished;
  • Crackelure - also gives an aging effect, but is an easier way. To do this, you need a special lacquer that simulates cracks in the wood. There are two types of craquelure: two-step and one-step. With a one-step craquelure, two layers of paint of different colors are applied, and between them a layer of special lacquer varnish with drying. With two-step application two types of varnish with intermediate drying are applied;
Craquelure furniture

Craquelure - the effect of antiquity

In the end, nothing prevents just pick up brushes, include fantasy and decorate furniture with acrylic paints, as all family members like.

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