Simple ways to decouple the dresser

Decoupage of the dresser is an easy way to breathe new life into your furniture.

If your chest is cracked, aged, or just bored - do not rush to throw it away, because you can turn it into a new one without spending a lot of money.

This can be done with the help of decoupage - an unusual furniture design technique, which came to us from France and quickly fell in love in Russia.

In the article you will learn how to restore furniture in this way, as well as get a master class for decoupling the dresser.

Photos, videos and instructions will help you to cope with this work and give a new life to your old things.

What is decoupage?

Decoupage technique is to cover furniture and other household items with colored paper, pictures, as well as additional effects such as coloring, gold spraying, etc.

The most famous decoupage technique acquired in the 17-18 centuries: with its help, forgers were forging fashionable in those days Chinese furniture, by covering ordinary furniture with additional elements and decorations.

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Such goods fell to the taste of poor people who could not afford real furniture.

Originally, this technique spread to Europe under the title "art of the poor," but soon it was carried away by the more affluent layers of the population, and soon it reached the court of King Louis XV.

In addition to pasting furniture, decoupage is also common in other everyday objects: often with the help of decoupage decorated clothes, for example, ladies' hats, plates, caskets, mirrors, etc.

Over the years, decoupage has not lost its relevance, but on the contrary, it has entered into one line with other professional occupations - so, such great artists of the 20th century as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso used this technique in their works.

Today decoupage is available to anyone who loves creativity.

The big plus of this technique is that you do not need any expensive tools - just a fantasy and handy blanks, for example, old magazines, stickers or pictures that you can buy inexpensively in specialized stores.

In the photo you can see what the decoupage technique looks like - in fact it is simply pasted with pictures and lacquered furniture and household items.

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Naturally, to make the result look attractive, and not horrible, you need the concept of a future creation.

You can use ready-made ideas - for example, to arrange your chosen subject in the popular style of Provence.

To do decoupage, you will need pictures that you can find in magazines, newspapers, books, albums with stickers, on wrapping paper, postcards, photos, etc.

To cut them, you will need a scissors or a razor, and to paste - glue PVA, or a special adhesive for decoupage.

To remove glue, you will need a rag or sponge, and to finish the work, the pasted pictures need to be covered with varnish or acrylic and polyurethane spray.

As you can see, this technique will not require big expenses.

Decoupage can be used to decorate literally any subject, and it will be of interest to both adults and children who can use it to decorate their notebooks, diaries, shelves or tables in the room.

However, when it comes to furniture, decoupage should be approached with great responsibility, because this item will be in your house for more than one year.

Decoupage of furniture is not such an easy task, and below you will get instructions on how to deal with it, so that the chest really pleases the eye.

How to restore a chest of drawers with the help of decoupage?

Before decoupling the dresser, you need to decide how you want to see it in the end, as well as choose the technique of coverage. One of the simplest techniques is decorating with paper.

Such a restoration of the chest with its own hands is suitable for those who do not have much experience in decorating furniture, tk.it is quite simple, but it looks attractive and original.

The design of the dresser depends on the place of its position and the general interior, for example, with a strict monophonic cabinet design, the chest can be decorated with ordinary newspapers, but for a children's room it is better to pick something more interesting and bright.

If the room is decorated in a certain style, for example, a provence, then it makes sense to make a similar and chest of drawers so that it does not get out of the general style.

Before you begin, look at the mini-master class. Decoupage takes place in several stages.

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The first thing you need to wash and dry the surface of furniture and remove the boxes and shelves that are inside. If the dresser is uneven, then it can be processed with its sandpaper.

Now you can start painting. You can paint the chest completely, or partially, depending on your idea.

Then, after drying, the painted parts are treated with sandpaper and the next layer of paint.

Now follows decoupage itself. Take the mini-pieces you made( newspapers, magazines, etc.) and cut out the images, and then place them on the previously glued surface.

The paper can be smoothed with a roller or just with your hands. Then you can paint on the contour of the picture, if you want, you can cover the dresser with varnish.

Wait a while and you can collect the chest of drawers.

Decoupage with

cloth As you can see, the first mini-master class is quite simple. It will be a little more difficult to decorate the dresser with a cloth. On the cost of materials it will not be more expensive - most likely, the old cloth in your home there is plenty.

Usually this technique is not decorated with the entire chest, but with drawers, but you can try another way by looking at the design options in the photo.

This mini-master class begins similarly to the previous one - you first need to wash and disassemble the chest of drawers.

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Before you glue the fabric, you need to make mini-workpieces - that is, patterns with a suitable pattern, while they should be a few inches wider than the front of the box.

You can buy ready-made patterns, or choose an example from a photo, or you can come up with a drawing yourself.

When the fabric is ready, grease the outside of the drawer with glue and attach the fabric, and then smooth it from the middle to make it flat.

It is better to attach the fabric bent inside the box with a stapler, so that it sticks better. After the glue grabs, you can collect a chest of drawers.

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The most difficult thing in this method is to make patterns. This will help you mini-master class on video.

It's best to choose a fabric that fits the tone of the interior, or in some interesting and popular style, such as Provence.

Luxurious variant of decoupage

The next mini-master class will help you make a chest of drawers in a truly luxurious style and turn it into the main complement of the interior.

For this you will need some blanks: paper for pasting - it is better to buy ready-made, as well as additional decorative elements - for example, paints and gold leaf.

After preparing the dresser, you need to paint all the details, and then apply the ornament chosen by you to the doors.

The pattern can be applied according to the finished pattern, or you can look at the master class on decorating the chest of drawers in the bohemian style.

Cover the finished ornament with gold leaf or other material selected by you, and close the frames of the boxes with a framing frame.

Then the entire surface must be varnished, and you can collect a chest of drawers.

If you do not want to decorate a chest of drawers in a too grandiose style, then you can choose something more light and modern, for example, provance, high-tech, etc.

dressing The last mini-master class is devoted to how to artificially age the chest of drawers. You can do this additionally to the selected style, or you can choose this design option as the original and the only one.

As in other cases, you need to completely disassemble the chest of drawers and process all of its parts with sandpaper. Then wipe the surface with a sponge or cloth.

Paint the furniture and wait for it to dry out a little, and then you can start to "grow old".

For this you will need some ideas and tools for work - candles, scrapers or skins are suitable.

Scraper can create artificial damage on the surface, and gently rub some fragments of the surface with a candle.

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You can apply other variants of "aging" by looking at the master class or photo with decoupage. Then you need to fix the workpieces with an additional layer of paint.

Re-treat the dresser with a sponge - where the wax has been applied, the paint will easily come off and you will get the aging effect.

If you want, you can add to the received design also decoupage using paper or ornament. After everything is ready, cover the surface with varnish and you can collect the chest of drawers.

This style is considered "rural", but it will fit perfectly into a city dwelling, if your apartment is decorated in the style of a country or a provence.

Thus, with the help of decoupage, any restoration of the chest can be carried out.

To do this you only need to make inexpensive blanks, from which the picture will consist, choose the style of decoration( Provence, Art Deco, High-Tech, etc.) and apply a little imagination and effort - then you can restore the old chest,that it will turn out not worse, than new.