Old dresser can still take a worthy place in your home. Restoration of furniture with your own hands will allow you from the old solid furniture to make stylish and fashionable. Saving funds to buy new furniture, you get your updated good furniture. |
For the restoration of the chest, we will need: - Dresser we want to update - sandpaper, - primer, paint, tassels. - mirrors, fabric, - clamps, - universal glue, - New accessories for the chest. |
Our work plan for the restoration of the chest of such: we will paint it, beat on the outer surface of the boxes of the mirror of the mirror, the inner surface of the boxes we will become a fabric. At the first stage of the work on updating the old chest, we need to clean it well. To do this, remove the old furniture accessories and carefully cleaned the sandpaper the entire surface of the chest. |
The next stage of restoration is the coloring. First we apply primer to the purified chest. As you dry, we apply a layer of gray paint. We are waiting for her complete drying, sanding the smallest sandpaper and apply the second layer of paint. For painting the chest, it is better to use paint in aerosols. For the finishing of the chest, furniture varnish are used with a small addition of ferrous paint. For the gaze of the lacquer is applied to the chest Tassel 2-3 very thin layers. |
After the external surface of our chest is practically ready, we will deal with updating the inner part of the boxes. Cut the fabric boxes, trying to prevent bubbles and folds. |
The most interesting part of our master class on the restoration of furniture with their own hands is the transformation of the usual chest into a trendy mirror dresser. For work we need a mirror. It is not necessary to buy a new mirror cloth. It can do it somehow. You can cut the old mirror that lost your view on the edges. You can buy such things at auctions and ads on the Internet. But the cutting of the mirror on the exact size and drilling in it holes under the handle is better to order in the workshop. |
And now that the restoration is finished, the old dull chest of drawers looks amazingly beautiful! You made a big deal - saved money and effectively updated our old furniture! |
Some ideas for furniture restoration. Instead of mirrors for the standoffs of the chest, you can use the finished mirror tile. |
Another option to upgrade furniture. Here instead of mirrors used tolstoy foil overlays. Foil is fixed on plywood slices, thin wooden planks are pasted on the surface. | 
For the restoration of the old chest, it is not only a mirror, but also a mirror plastic. The amazing quality of such a mirror chest is the ability to be "invisible" with its significant capacity. |
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