Dresser in the style of Provence: how to decorate it cheaply with their hands?

Provence - romance faraway France. This is a simple, archaic and slightly gruff style of this French village, blooming and the sun. In the spirit of full of cozy interiors meets dresser Provence style - a piece of furniture with a century of history. Modern manufacturing techniques allow to obtain artificially aged chests, but to make such a beauty you can own hands.

What is the "Provence"?

Before you get to update my grandmother's chest with your hands, you need to learn the distinctive features of the style of Provence. Although he belongs to the family of rural areas, in the incarnation of the situation in the spirit of the French province where more finesse.

The basic ideas:

• The absence of bright colors: pastel palette is only applied to large surfaces and large pieces of furniture. All muted colors, even white color should not be too bright.
• Painted furniture fronts and side walls images of flowers and fruits: patterns can be painted as a naturalistic and primitive. Far more important than color printing figures. Ideally necessary effect of the ancient pattern, sun-bleached.
• The lines are simple but smooth: elegant, slightly curved legs - a mandatory attribute of the chest from Provence. Rounded corners or cover roughly carved ledges, too, testify supplies furniture to the situation of the French countryside.

Obvious signs of aging: abrasions and small chips, even supported by the hands, turn into painted chests full of representatives of the style of Provence, and the house attached to residential and cozy look.

Occasionally some parts lacquered furniture cracelures with the effect that the surface fine mesh formed cracks.

Features Provincial Chest

Chests of drawers perfectly serve as guardians of the right and not too things, textiles and even dishes. A large number of drawers allows you to keep everything in order, and compact dimensions make it possible to do without the massive cabinets and cupboards.

Chest of drawers, made in the style of Provence, must necessarily be made of wood. Due to the use in its production of whole array roomy piece of furniture it seems a bit cumbersome. However, the pattern of simple and smooth lines makes it easy to visually design.

Rustic look of the furniture will not suffer if his own hands to provide modern antiquities concealed fittings: telescopic slides, ensuring smooth running drawers. However, in view must remain graceful wrought-iron handles or imitation aged bronze, copper, brass.

design techniques

artificial aging

To re-create with their hands on a wooden surface effect of aged, chest of drawers should be covered several thin layers of paint of different colors, then use nazhdachki cause "rubbing" on protruding parts. After coating, a protective wax or lacquer no glitter appearance of a decor ennoble furniture.

Decoupage

This method of decorating home decoration has long been in vogue, but everything you need for work can be expensive to buy in stores for needlework. decoupage technique is quite simple and only requires imagination and precision:

• Dye chest in one of the bright tones. Provencal style usually choose white paint, pale pink, lilac, light green or blue.
• Give protrusions furniture kind of easy wear.
• Image on a napkin for decoupage wetted with water with a small amount of PVA glue or special and carefully applied to the painted surface. Thin paper a little wrinkled, but the main thing - to prevent the appearance of wrinkles.
• Once a piece of cloth with a pattern dries, the surface will need to cover the transparent varnish.

It does not matter if the substrate pattern where some mistakes or not complied with perfect symmetry - a real provincial dresser impresses by the fact that obviously made with their own hands.

painting

this method decoration of furniture in the style of Provence the most difficult and laborious, but the result chests are really unique and acquire a provincial charm.

• Dye primed wood surfaces acrylic paint in two layers - the bottom has to be several shades darker top.
• Using the prepared stencil applied to facades or the sidewalls patterns, cover oil varnish.
• After 3.5 hours, the oil applied over the layer of water-soluble lacquer. To make the picture a little blurred, you can blow the surface of his household hairdryer.
• Complete inlay help rare sparks golden paints - it must be applied with a fine brush or cotton bud. The main thing is not to overdo it, an abundance of gold decorations destroy the very idea.

After drying of the topcoat only remains to fasten in place the handle forged - Romantic and provincial dresser ready.