Decoupage technique is suitable for those who want to make individuality, comfort and beauty in their interior. This is handmade, which is highly valued all over the world, because it is with her that things capture the part of the love and peace of mind of their master. Decoupage translated from French means "cut", the technique means sticking the cut out pictures on the surface of the items.
What is needed for work?
It is better to start changing your interior with small items. Then decoupage can be transferred to furniture and finish with walls and floors. The volume of work will depend on patience, desire and masters' skills. For decorating you should stock up the following instruments and materials.
- Choose any picture on paper, for this, use magazines, colored napkins, posters, newspapers, photos, pictures from wallpaper. In stores on needlework, you can buy ready-made decoupage cards or rice paper.
- Gypsum primer or mixture for complex surfaces.
- Tonal acrylic paint.
- Decamental glue or PVA diluted with water in equal parts.
- Varnish for the selected surface type and finish coating.
- Soft brushes, sponge for cutting paints.
- Sandpaper. For paint removal, you need to use grinding tools.
- Alcohol-containing liquid will be needed for degreasing the working surface.
Materials for decoupage is easy to find in construction stores, outlets on needlework and online stores.
How can I transform furniture?
Furniture and household items are most often used to decorate decoupage technician. Much less often applied on walls, floor, ceiling, windows. Decorating furniture, you need to understand that Not any style in the room can take a decoupage.
If one of the following directions is observed in the setting of the room, you can safely begin to work.
Country
Almost all kinds of country choose bright pictures with the image of flora, fauna and folk ornaments. The furniture should be simple, the decoupage technique will help you to give it a centenary, imitating cracking of varnish and paint.
Provence
The style of the French village also belongs to the village directions, but unlike the country, it is characterized by gentle pastel tones and the elevated surfaces. For furniture you can choose Method of artificial composition and color print.
Shebbi-Shik
Furniture in this direction, at first glance, it is difficult to distinguish from the style of Provence, the same bleached, and in pastel colors. The difference is that Provence objects should have a simple rustic look, And Shebbi-Chic furniture, rather, is similar to an antique, imitating the situation of a rich past.
In decoupage of this style, apply techniques of blurred boundaries and scuffs.
Sympl City
For the design of the furniture of this style, the decopath technique is used, this is a type of decoupage. It represents Disorderly stagnation on the surface of cut or torn pieces of pictures.
In this case, it is better to use a black and white newspaper or photography.
Victorian
Working with the furniture of this style, you will need certain skills. Perhaps the use of Potali (the finest metal sheets imitating the gold surface). For Victorianship characteristic Golden, green, blue shades.
Choosing pictures, you can pay attention to the plots of hunting, floristics, still lifes.
Franch Vintage
In the furniture decor, black and white variants of the pictures are used, pastel tones can be connected.
If one of these styles are present in the setting, you can proceed to the conversion of furniture. Consider the main process of working in the decoupage technique, it is used for any objects of furniture and things that need decoration. Small differences will be subject to material (wood, glass, plastic, metal), as well as in the use of additional techniques (cracker, patina, potal). In the future, we will only make corrective descriptions of working with floor, door, etc.
So, the sequence of actions in the work of decoupage technicians is.
- From the surface of the furniture, remove all the accessories, clean it from the old paint and stern.
- Move with putty all cracks and cracks, and then primed a smooth layer.
- After drying out several layers of tonal acrylic paint.
- Sliding surfaces (glass, plastic, ceramics) should be deguted with alcohol, tin coatings - water with vinegar.
- For better clutch, the pattern with the surface is cleaned with sandpaper.
- Before you get furnished with pictures, they should be prepared. To do this, over 20-30 seconds are soaked in water and carefully remove all layers of paper, leaving only the last, with the image. Roll movements produce from the center to the edges of the drawing.
- Decamental glue (or diluted PVA) is applied to the furniture surface and gently glue the image, collecting it from fragments of pictures. Each piece of drawing is carefully smoothed with a wet brush.
- After drying up with the application, you can work in any technique: to draw paints, growing the background, create a crockel lacquer, apply a pearl, gilding.
- After complete drying, the work should be covered with several layers of varnish.
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How to reap the door and windows?
Very impressive interior in which the decoupage of the doors and windows support each other with a single style. But if there are no strength on the grand projects, you can decorate only the window frame or part of the glass. The door will also look perfectly in the performance of decoupage techniques.
Especially it should be decorated if she lost attractiveness or tired of her color, it is possible to update the design without special material costs.
Door
The door can be the starting point to continue to switch to furniture items and make a cozy room in the style of Hand Made. Consider a phased way to decorate the door canvase.
- For high-quality work with the door, it is better to remove it from the loops, otherwise the process will become long and painful.
- From the surface remove the old paint, then the workpiece wash and dried.
- Linen align the primer.
- The first layer of acrylic paint should be white, it neutralizes the consequences of the primer.
- Then they apply a tonal acrylic layer, which will be combined with the picture.
- When the door is dry, a cut-made prepared drawing is fixed on its surface with glue. Applications can be not only of paper, but also on a tissue basis.
- A wet soft brush carefully smoothes an image, kicking over the excess glue and air bubbles.
- If the picture failed to put on the door perfectly, it can be corrected with the help of brushes and paints.
- In the last stage, several layers of varnish are applied, which will not only give the canvas with a beautiful finished look, but will protect it from dust and dirt, from scuffs and scratches.
It is more logical to apply decoupage technique on interroom doors. But some craftsmen adorn them entrance to the house. Consider photos of the door decor, to better have an idea of it:
- It is impressive of a refined fragile embossing chamomile on a canvas of an unstable green color with elements of a yellow shade;
- Gilded decoupage for imperial style (ampir);
- The entrance door of the heavenly shade, made on the topic of floristics;
- Fragments doors decorated with decoupage technique.
Window
Sometimes in the technique of decoupage covers the glass surface of the window or its part. This technique justifies itself only in a hot climate, as glass becomes less transmitted. In other cases, decorated only the frame. Plastic windows or old wooden frames can go into move. With the latter will have to tinker. During the repair, it is better to remove them from the window opening and fully update: Clear from old paint, sanding, primed. Plastic surfaces before decorating need to be deguted with acetone.
The stratified prepared napkins are cut by strips to size the width of the frame. Applied to the surface and wet first a wet brush to align, and then glue. In the process of work, you need to follow the sequence of the pattern. Special attention is paid to the places where fittings are located. After a day, the product is covered with varnish. The window acquires a unique look and attracts views.
Ideas for floors and walls
It is familiar to see furniture, decorated decoupage technique, or thousands of pretty little things: vases, plates, boxes, notepads, gift boxes. But the decoupage on the floor seems incredible. Will the finest paper, which falls on the floor every day? It turns out that, with the right approach, it will not be easy to stand, but also hide all the irregularities of the floor covering.
The walls made in the technique of decoupage will also be infrequently visiting. The door can be removed from the loops, put in a convenient place place and decorate. With a wall, such manipulations do not commit, you have to adapt to the vertical canvas.
Who succeeds, as a result, get a surprisingly beautiful surface.
Floor
When going to transform the floor, you need to decide for myself, work will take place over all coating or fragmentary. For example, old linoleum can be updated by hiding under applications only spots and scuffs. Working in a decoupage technique over a large surface, It is necessary to use varnish for floor covering. , It will fasten the drawing well and guaranteed to prepare the floor for daily operation.
Consider one of the ways to decorate the floor with different techniques. On the perimeter of the room, an ornament is performed using applications, and the central part is decorated with staining through tulle. Step-by-step action.
- Wooden floor prepared to work by grinding. The surface is completely freed from the old paint.
- With the help of paint tape, the floor is closed at 30-50 cm around the perimeter - the part on which the ornament will be located.
- The coating in the center of the room is treated with a mahogany color. Tulle lay on the dry surface and the aerosol paint bronze color spray on top.
- Recalling the scotch from the curb part, it is treated with a white verse to create contrast and leave until complete drying.
- A decoupage technique has been working on a light bayime floor. Cut applications plant on glue, apply a layer of decoupapant varnish.
To understand how the floor looks like, a decoupage technique, consider examples in photos.
- The surface has been decorated in the form of a carpet path, a contrast reception was used. On a bright background, a sophisticated oriental ornament looks extravagant.
- The decor is made in two contrasting shades: dark around the perimeter and light in the center. In working with the main part of the room was used to take painting through tulle, then appliques with the image of flowers were applied.
- The smooth surface is made in the Decopatch technique (a variety of decoupage), the floor is fully covered with log cuttings.
- An example of a decopatch technique on the militant floor. Each board has its own ornament, and the entire floor surface looks like a patchwork blanket.
- Beautifully made of a boarded surface in Shebbi style chic.
Walls
Decoupage can be made on a small part of the wall or cover them all the walls of the room. The choice depends on the taste and the creative potential of the artist. Decoupage technique looks good in small rooms (children's, bedroom, kitchen, hallway).
In spacious rooms you can allocate one wall for decoupage. For urban styles, black and white variations from newspapers and photographs are often used. For teenage rooms choose bright fragments from comics. Flower print fits all country styles. If the floristry is made in gentle pastel colors, it is used to send Shebbi Chic and Provence. Consider how you can independently decoupage decoupage on yourself.
- The surface of the wall is perfectly aligned, plastering and ground. Dried.
- The picture is chosen according to the style of the interior. The carrier can be clippings from magazines, photos, rice paper, napkins, appliques from wallpaper and other paper products. In further actions, there is nothing new for the Decoupage technique: cut out, soaked and remove the top layer.
- Pictures are placed on the wall using the adhesive base.
- Then the layer of varnish is applied. Decoupage is performed in a horizontal position so that the flowing varnish does not spoil the work. With regard to walls it is impossible to do this. Special quick-drying mixtures are applied, apply a neatly soft brush.
Fragmented decoupage on the walls looks more organically. Consider examples of different use options for this technique on the surface of the walls.
- On a flat sunny wall there is an elegant branch of flowering magnolia. It fills the void of the surface, but at the same time does not create a massive pressure.
- Beautifully beaten decor imitating the aged surface of the wall. It is unobtrusively moving to the shelf, supported by a vase in the same style.
- Imitation of ancient fresco on the wall Also performed by the technique of composition.
- Volumetny decoupage Made with a textured paste.
- The image on the wall in the method of decorating may well Replace the carpet or a full picture.
- In creating a bright interior, except for paper applications, are used Fabric elements.
- An example of applying Decoupage On all walls of the room.
Beautiful options for decor items
Items decorated in decoupage style can be introduced into the interior as an independent type of decor and in support of furniture, windows, walls made by a similar method. The main thing is that they do not dissimary with the situation. Beautiful decoupage options can be found on the Internet, they will inspire their own masterpieces:
- Written accessories;
- In the technique of decoupage, even an old suitcase can become irresistible;
- a decorated computer mouse looks positive;
- Hanger under the towels in the country style;
- Steam decoupage of wedding champagne bottles for young.
If the creative potential is laid in the character, it is necessary to try to change the interior with your own hands. This can help a decoupage technique - an inexpensive and very beautiful way to decorate any surfaces.
On how to reorganize the wall in the decoupage technique, see the next video.