The new review collected several wonderful examples how you can take and easily transform old furniture, turning it into something completely new and immaculate.
The most important thing is that each of these ideas can be brought to life independently. We look and remember.
1. Sofa in the hallway
A sofa from an old cabinet.
An old Soviet-style cabinet can be turned into a comfortable compact sofa with soft seat and a place to store shoes.
2. Stylish high chair
New life for an old chair.
Neat painting and bright seat upholstery will allow you to breathe new life into an old shabby chair and turn the burden into a stylish piece of furniture.
3. Bright stool
New design stool.
The decoupage technique will help transform an old, dilapidated stool, which will allow you to transfer a bright pattern or an entire picture to nondescript furniture.
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4. Flower chair
New upholstery for an old chair.
A little painting of some of its parts and upholstery of the cushions with thick fabric with a beautiful print will help breathe new life into an old, unattractive chair.
5. Dining table
Transformation of an old table.
Incredible transformation of an old shabby table into white dinner table IR with a round tabletop decorated with a floral print, made using the decoupage technique.
6. Desk
New design desk.
Simple transformation of the faceless wooden table, which was achieved with the help of careful painting in White color and original fittings.
7. Bright cabinet
Redesign of an old cabinet.
A stunning transformation of an unnecessary Soviet-style cabinet into a bright new piece of furniture, which was achieved by removing the door and carefully painting it.
8. Chest of drawers
New facade of an old chest of drawers.
Careful painting and decoupage drawers allowed us to give this worn and worn out chest of drawers a new, modern look.
9. Exclusive locker
A charming cabinet with a bright print.
Decoupage doors combined with bright painting made it possible to turn this useless cabinet into an exclusive piece of furniture that will fit perfectly into the interior of a country house.
10. Desk
Desk from an old dressing table.
New fresh color, decoupage of drawers and dismantling large mirror allowed us to transform this bulky and outdated dressing table into a charming desk.
11. Sideboard
New stylish design old sideboard.
I bought the old sideboard completely the new kind thanks to the slate paper glued to the doors.
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12. Play kitchen
Toy kitchen from a sideboard.
A little imagination, paint and fittings will allow you to turn an old sideboard into a wonderful toy kitchen that the young housewife will undoubtedly love.
13. Sofa with cabinet
A sofa from an old chest of drawers.
Dismantling some elements, careful painting and soft furniture cushions made it possible to transform a gloomy chest of drawers into a charming sofa with storage space.
It would seem that when buying a new cabinet, the old one has two options: to the landfill or to the dacha. But if you wish, you can give it a second life, thus saving on the purchase of other furniture.
Desktop
The old cabinet can be disassembled into construction material for a desk. The cabinet body will serve as walls and legs; drawers can be made from shelves. Finally, the structure should be coated with wood varnish.
Nightstand
You can make one or more cabinets from an old cabinet. Both the body and the shelves are suitable for this. Moreover, they can be either hollow inside or with shelves or drawers, depending on your needs.
Shop
An old cabinet can also serve as material for creating a bench. It will be useful, for example, in the hallway, so that several people can sit on it at the same time and comfortably put on their shoes. You can make a shelf in the lower part where shoes would be stored.
Stools and chairs
Of course, homemade stools and chairs from an old piece of furniture cannot compare with the beauty and elegance of those offered in stores. However, they may not be inferior to them in convenience, but will only cost you the effort and time spent.
Wardrobe
If you leave only three walls of the closet and remove all the shelves from the inside, you will get an excellent wardrobe where you can hang outerwear at the front door. If you still leave the top shelf, then it will be a niche for hats.
Box
An ordinary simple box can be easily made from any boards of the appropriate size. It is suitable for storing potatoes, old books or magazines, out-of-season clothes and shoes, and much more.
Shelves
It is not necessary to create new element furniture, you can simply disassemble old wardrobe on spare shelves for other items. You can simply hang shelves for books, lamps and decorative elements.
Even if the interior of the apartment is carefully designed professional designers, And homemade furniture there is no place there, then these same ideas can be taken into account for the dacha, where most people already take old furniture. In this case, the closet will not just stand in the corner and accumulate various rubbish, but will live a second life as useful item furniture.
Decorating an old cabinet
If you are not planning to buy a new cabinet, but the old one has begun to look indecently shabby over time, then you can refresh it appearance. There are several ways.
Painting or pasting
This is the most obvious option. The old layer of paint is removed and the surface is repainted (it is not necessary to use the same color). If there are any scuffs on the cabinet, you can cover them with special decorative stickers(they come in different shapes: butterflies, flowers, stars, raindrops and even more complex images).
REFERENCE! If you need to refresh the appearance of the cabinet as a whole, you can cover the entire surface with wallpaper. If this seems boring, then you can make a collage of memorable photos or motivational quotes on a plain background.
Fabric use
If pasting with wallpaper and other paper is not suitable for some reason, then you can cover the surface with fabric. This can be done closely, or you can add some filler to make the furniture soft to the touch.
Patterns
Special stencils are available for sale different forms and sizes, with which you can paint the surface so that the piece of furniture will look like the original work of a talented designer, and not an ordinary old cabinet.
Slate surface
Created using special slate paint or films. This looks especially good in a room decorated in a loft style. But in any other case, it will be at least functional: write down your plans for the day every day, leave yourself important reminders, draw and much more.
Aging
Provence style involves artificially aged furniture. An old cabinet fits this requirement perfectly. All that remains is to make sure that its wear and tear over time looks neat and cute, and not just separate tattered spots.
Decoupage
This is the creation of a pattern on a surface using paper or other elements rather than paint. Napkins with a pattern, old newspapers and magazines, clippings from postcards and other paper products - anything that suits the style - will do.
REFERENCE! With the proper approach and careful execution, the result of the work will be absolutely new item furniture, which can be mistaken for a project implemented by a talented designer.
Thus, any old cabinet can live many more years in its original condition or a lifetime as a new piece of furniture. This will help you save on buying new things and add originality to the interior.
Rework old furniture will warm the master’s soul and delight his family. Recently, a couple I knew asked a woodworker to reupholster some simple Soviet chairs. He painted the wood either with special paint or varnish in a rich emerald shade. I chose avant-garde upholstery - green with silver apples...
What a miracle it happened! It was rubbish, natural decay, and now it’s new stylish furniture, both antique and unique. No one else has one like this. And what savings!
I offer you ideas for repurposing old furniture that can lead to an interesting transformation. Why not paint the dining table acrylic paints? Moreover, the table is already 20 years old, and you have artistic talent.
Furniture remodeling
Inspiring Examples
- Super idea for protect the sofa from stains and disguise those that have already appeared on the upholstery. The pockets on this blanket are simply designed for storing useful household items!
- It was a real misfortune: this sofa was clearly destined for a landfill.
We painted it, sewed new pillows, and here he is, a handsome man!
- What a bedspread! If you know how to crochet, then not crocheting such a wonderful blanket for the sofa is a crime. The sofa is white like an angel's robe, lush, like a fresh bun, and updated! Nothing was reupholstered or painted, but the sofa was transformed.
- A sofa bench can become a full-fledged sofa if you choose a blanket. By experimenting with fabrics, you can achieve unexpectedly pleasant results!
- To make it simple cheap furniture looked chic in the interior, you need to follow quite simple principles: the right combination of colors and harmony of style...
- Here's how to fit an old table into a new interior!
- An unremarkable, miserable table!
But fate smiled on him, now it’s nice to look at...
- A nonentity that should have been gotten rid of long ago!
A decent and practical table, its shape hints at reliable design and capacity...
- What the furniture looked like before the remodel. I want to forget this sad look...
There is no comparison! Brilliant, bravo, incomparable!
- Why not cover a battered sofa with something unusual? Looks amazing.
- Ethnic motives, richness of patterns, brightness, beauty that makes your eyes run wild. Interesting idea- use carpets instead of bedspreads and capes.
- Such a piece of furniture is unlikely to impress anyone.
The remodeled bookcase is 100 times better!
- Unattractive, boring table.
It turned out great! Very tender.
- This poor thing needs to be given a chance at a second life...
Great result! Is this really the same chair?
- Horror, horror. He looks terrible...
And now - the royal chair!
- The table played completely differently!
- I want a bedspread like this... It's a lazy remake, yes. One new bedspread will change both the furniture and the room!
- I really like this option! You can add fur to any piece of furniture you sit on.
- I want to throw this chair away. Cry over it, feel sorry for it again and throw it away.
After renovation it commands respect!
- It turned out to be a nice chair!
- Great idea - related with my own hands cover for an old chair.
- Here's how new upholstery can transform a sofa!
- Acrylic paints and furniture are made for each other!
- And one last idea... Well, how can you not admire the magic and start creating!
Seems, DIY refurbishment of old furniture- not so much difficult task. Perhaps I’ll go study, I’ll have enough inspiration... And you
Often people don’t even think about how many pieces of furniture are nearby that are amazing in beauty and execution. Dilapidated chairs, tables, chest of drawers, inherited or bought for pennies, old sofa or a chair never fits into the interior modern apartment, so they often become a burden and are sent to the country. At the same time, a relatively simple refurbishment of old furniture, which only takes a couple of weekends, will return the rarities to their former shine and beauty. If, of course, you know how to properly handle such items.
What can you do with old furniture?
Until recently, old furniture was of interest only to connoisseurs, collectors and professional restorers. Today, remodeling interior items has turned into a colossal business, the existence of which many are not even aware of. Therefore, before throwing away or sending old furniture to the stove at the dacha, you can try your hand at restoring and remaking old items, at the same time increasing their value by an average of 10 to 50 times.
It goes without saying that for high-quality rework and restoration requires considerable knowledge, work skills and special tools. However, even for a non-professional restorer, remaking furniture with your own hands is quite an affordable activity, but in a slightly shortened version:
- If old design has retained the strength and main details of the cladding and load-bearing elements, the paintwork can be restored, reupholstered and reworked soft upholstery and replace wooden parts, hidden from view;
- If the objects being restored are in terrible condition, missing covering elements, cladding, legs, drawer faces, tabletop surfaces can be restored and remade using modern materials. In this case, you will get antique furniture, with obvious signs of a remake, but retaining the features of old rarities;
- Complete refurbishment of old items. From old tables, chairs, chests of drawers, cabinets, only the frames and drawers are preserved; everything else must be radically remade into stylish and modern furniture.
Any work on restoration and alteration of old interior items requires a separate, dry and well-ventilated room where the wood can be varnished and dried without the risk of harming the health of household members.
Important! The most difficult stage is reupholstery upholstered furniture, upholstery of chairs, sofas, ottomans. It is best to entrust such work to an experienced craftsman.
The simplest option for remodeling furniture is known to almost everyone. This is re-gluing the surface of old cabinets, sideboards, furniture walls, kitchen furniture Soviet-made laminated films. The old varnished surface of chipboard furniture has long faded and lost its attractiveness, so refinishing it with film will significantly refresh the appearance. It is enough to buy a self-adhesive film “for water”, stock up stationery knife, a set of rulers, a spray bottle, a dry cloth and a place for cutting the film.
We remodel the cabinet in the following sequence:
- We free furniture from drawers and fittings;
- For each item, we cut out our own film pattern, with an allowance of at least 3-4 cm per side;
- Wipe off old surface from dust, spray it from a spray bottle and carefully stick the film on;
- Using a napkin, carefully squeeze out air bubbles, as when gluing wallpaper.
For the most persistent bubbles, the film can be pierced with a needle. After drying, we install handles, fittings and return the cabinets and doors to their place. This method of remodeling old furniture will take a maximum of one weekend day.
Options for remaking old furniture
It's easiest to work with the old one lacquered furniture, remodel and restore the chest of drawers, coffee table or old chairs is much simpler and more affordable than you might imagine. To work with old paint and varnish coatings, you only need to remove the old varnish, polishing paper, high-quality varnish or paint, and sometimes repair compounds for veneer surfaces. It is worth making a reservation - only furniture made from solid massif wood, or prefabricated structures lined with natural sawn veneer. Any furniture options from Chipboard restoration are not subject to, the maximum that can be done is to cover it with film.
We restore old wooden furniture, chairs, cabinets, tabletops
First of all, it is necessary to disassemble the piece of furniture as carefully as possible and remove any contaminating paint or varnish residues.
Easiest to remove old varnish in three ways:
- Chemical remover, most often a mixture of acetone, alcohol and 647 solvent;
- Clean with sandpaper;
- Heat with a hairdryer and gently scrape off sharp knife, then sand it by hand with sandpaper.
For your information! As a rule, old furniture is long life is subjected to repeated painting, so the most difficult thing in such an alteration is to carefully remove old paint and varnish.
If you do everything carefully, then even a child will be able to do the further part of the remodeling. Will need to cover wooden surface varnish, preferably under mahogany or ebony.
When restoring countertops, the most common defect is a chip on the edge of the polished surface. In the old days, the defect was filled with acrylic paste and painted alkyd enamel. It is clear that such a rework is tantamount to destroying the table, so old polish It’s easier to restore with a special tool.
Often, during a remodel, it is necessary to replace some of the old rotted, cracked or lost pieces of furniture with new parts. For example, you can make new drawers for an old chest of drawers or cabinet.
To make the parts look old, you have to use an awl to apply marks of the bark beetle in dots, and use a bronze brush to imitate marks and abrasions.
After remodeling, the wood of the box is bleached and painted to match the old furniture.
Advice! If you do not have the opportunity to select during the rework the right coverage, then it’s better not to paint old furniture, but leave the natural, cleaned wood texture.
Sometimes during the rework you should not strive for complete authenticity of the restored copy; this can be done by professionals. If the old furniture is in extremely poor condition, then instead of an unsuccessful alteration, it is better to make an adapted version of the new furniture from it. For example, very good idea is to repurpose an old chest of drawers into a new sofa.
To do this, cut off the upper part that has become unusable - the lid and the front part, leaving only the frame with legs. After installing the stand and stowing soft pillows It turns out to be a very nice sofa.
The most successful examples of remaking old things
Not everyone can handle the labor-intensive cleaning, varnishing and polishing of wooden furniture. There are two ways to simplify the remodeling process - select unusual style for a new coating or refuse to use paint and varnish materials at all. Restorers, who are rightfully considered to be the trendsetters of style and rules in matters of furniture refurbishment, consider the worst solution to be conventional painting with paints, no matter what, acrylic or expensive powder compositions.
For example, old wooden furniture- a cabinet or chair, which has the style and beauty of varnished wood, after painting turns into dull monochrome trash.
The exception is black and white varnishes. If you like painted furniture, use glossy, non-bleeding white or black paints. This remodel will give style and a spectacular look to old furniture.
Sometimes several colors are needed to enliven the space of a room and interior, in this case good decision There will be painting, application of thematic drawings to the tabletop or front part. This will not only not spoil the item, but will also make it original. True, its price, as a rarity, will decrease several times.
The redesign option can be called ingenious old bedside table by pasting with newspapers and varnishing.
Such a product can be safely put up for auction of old items - demand and positive responses are guaranteed.
Separately, it is worth mentioning a very special category of old furniture - designer chairs with elements of carving and edges. If you still have similar items, know that they are worth reworking and being restored by the hands of a master. Firstly, walnut chairs are very beautiful in any setting and are highly prized. Secondly, any designer furniture from a famous master from the beginning of the last century can cost very good money.
Often, owners, starting with the remodeling and restoration of one chair or table, assemble entire sets of restored furniture. Interestingly, the results of a relatively simple alteration will only increase in price and value every year.
It is clear that it is not only old wooden objects that can be restored and remade. Ordinary office chair after reupholstery, it can also become part of the antique decor.
Conclusion
Restoring old furniture does not require special equipment or technology. This is the case when the main decoration of a table or an old chest of drawers is not the ideal shape or color, but the visible labor invested by people in the manufacture and restoration of the item. If you are lucky and the furniture has been preserved with minimal damage, then it is best to leave as many of the original parts as possible, paint coating, accessories. The furniture will only benefit from such a remodel.
