The Art of Painting Furniture

You hang out for several years of furniture from your parents and your grandparents? All this furniture seems odd and you do not fit together with the rest of your decor? The solution to your problem is easy: just painting your furniture! This practice, which was customary at the beginning of the century, has somewhat gone to come back strong in recent years. It is sacrilege to paint over the wood, so you can give you a ball!

To apply paint or stain your furniture, just keep following the same basic steps and let your imagination to color and texture desired. First, before painting a cabinet, it must first be prepared. Thus, we have to sand the furniture in full force. It must not remain or wax or varnish. It should then thoroughly wash the furniture with soapy water to remove any sanding residue and dust. Allowed to dry and thereafter, it is possible to attack with paint or stain. If you want to apply paint on cabinets, an acrylic painting done nicely, simply select the desired finish. If you want to apply a stain, it will reflect the type of wood you are about to paint, that is to say a hard wood (oak, mahogany, walnut) or softwood (pine, fir, poplar ). The components and color choices are not the same from one timber to another. Finally, you must also choose a polish, a glaze or a liquid wax to protect your hard work. Remember that it is also possible to paint laminate furniture, more commonly called melamine cabinet, following the steps outlined above. The results are generally very successful.

Painting furniture is not restricted only to paint the doors of the kitchen cabinets of your new apartment! Indeed, it is possible to paint several furniture and supplies such as lamp bases and bases of beds, shelves, mirrors, bookcases, dressers, chairs, kitchen table or bedside tables .. Everything is at your fingertips!