Choosing chairs "antique"

Furniture, stylized antique, fascinates, enchants and transports people to ancient times, where the world was ruled by beautiful, sophisticated and exquisite things from natural materials. Age, taste, and worldview are not important - if retro style furniture finds itself before the eyes, no one can resist its uniqueness. This simple trick is used by many owners of public institutions, such as cafes and restaurants. Decorating their possessions with aged pieces of furniture, they create an atmosphere of coziness and comfort, thereby attracting customers. The most in demand chairs "antique", which can be found both in public places and private households.

Chairs "antique" look harmonious in any interior, especially the model "Richelieu". It’s a pleasure to use or even look at them. The highlight of vintage-style furniture is its decoration, which makes each item exclusive and inimitable. The advantages of artificially aged products include their reliability, durability, and durability. No visible damage (cracks, scratches and permissible curvature) can affect the service life of such items. Aged chairs are colorful, they draw attention to themselves, raise people’s mood in an unusual way, create an atmosphere of romance of the last century.

To use such pieces of furniture is incredibly pleasant. Antique furniture products can decorate the halls of public institutions, they will look great in a residential area. Such models create an atmosphere similar to that prevailing in bars and restaurants with vintage-style interiors.

At the disposal of the modern person there is a lot of ways how to age the furniture. It comes to the aid of advanced equipment and technology with which you can implement a variety of retro ideas. To achieve the desired effect "antique" wooden base chairs often lighten, and on the surface create cracks and irregularities. It is important not to lose sight of the main rule: a natural look above all else. A product made a few hours ago should look like it “lived” for at least a hundred years. Only in this case, furniture "antique" can become a truly elite, comparable to museum specimens.

Modern aging of wooden furniture eliminates the use of chemicals, so that it retains its properties. It is quite another thing - products with bronze plates and wheels.

Artificial aging is performed in such techniques:

• craquelure;
• scuff effect;
• patinated;
• brushing

The term "craquelure" in French means "cracks formed during the process of painting or varnishing the product."This is nothing more than a violation of the integrity of the top layer of furniture covering, as a result of which all sorts of patterns appear. Many designers, working on the interior design of the room, use this particular technique, since the cracked surfaces give the interior a special charm. The cracked surface and the pattern on it are called crackle.

However, to perform work in this technique, it is necessary to have at least a modest experience in this area. Only then the process of aging will turn into a fascinating activity with a unique result. It is possible to create furniture "antique" at home, you only need to arm yourself with a set of special tools (varnishes, paints, brushes, etc.) and devote several hours to this work. The result of the work will be a delightful piece of furniture in the old style.

In professional workshops you can order single-phase or two-phase craquelure.

• The first is applied on a monochromatic surface, the chair or chair should already be painted with the basic tone.After complete drying of the paint, the surface is coated with a single-component varnish and dried again. Next, put the main color. Interacting with the paint, the craquelure varnish begins to crack. For strength, the chair is impregnated with clear varnish.

• The second type of craquelure is used on surfaces with a pattern. Make a blend with your own hands is quite simple. To do this, stick a decorating napkin on a hard surface and cover it with varnish, and after 40 minutes apply a second layer of varnish with a cross-shaped motion for a pronounced cracking effect.

If during the drying of the chair to use a hair dryer, the cracks will be wider and deeper. To get a contrasting pattern, you can rub pigment, dark color or gold powder into the cracks formed, but only after the surface is completely dry. All excess paint is removed with a cotton pad dipped in vegetable oil. Next, the product is dried and painted over again with acrylic varnish.

The scuff effect is used to make the furniture look old and shabby. In this case, you need to work on the choice of colors. As the main color fits any saturated, bright option.The next layer is applied very light paint of a delicate shade. The combination of such contrasts creates the necessary effect of faded paint from time to time. After complete drying, the surface is treated with fine sandpaper and covered with furniture lacquer.

Foam, patina, various paints, bitumen are used for patination. Most often patinated old, but still "running" furniture, which has lost its appeal. Natural "worn" can be beaten with the help of this method, turning the "semi-antique" in the main advantage of the subject of furniture. Thanks to this simple technique, even an eye-pleasing product will look like an antique piece. Particularly beautiful is the golden patina on chairs with crossed legs. As a rule, only surfaces from natural materials are patinated, however, coatings made of MDF sometimes age.

After processing by a patina, that is at the final stage, artificially aged furniture becomes varnished. If necessary, you can apply not one layer, but several. After the varnish has dried, the surface is treated with emery paper, but you need to act very carefully, otherwise, as a result of negligent work, the furniture will turn out to be not aged, but scruffy.Patinating is a rather laborious process, it requires different skills and experience, perseverance and a lot of time.

Among the variety of wood processing methods for the purpose of adding young wood of age is the use of brushing. The essence of this process is the processing of timber with a metal brush. Brushing can be carried out by itself or in tandem with other technicians. The task of the master is to remove the soft fibers from the upper layer of wood with a simple tool and a certain force, but leave the solid fibers intact.

Treated in a similar way, the tree is then given an aesthetic look “antique”. A small chisel and a thin drill create "wormholes" - damage caused by insects and time. Proceeding from the idea of ​​decorating the room, which will be decorated with aged chairs, wood is covered with various varnishes, wax, stain.

It is worth noting that this technique can not be used for any type of array. Professionals advise treating oak, larch, ash and walnut in this way.You can also brush wenge, jatoba, merbau. The main requirement of this method of aging is that the tree has well-distinguished soft and hard annual rings. Fruit trees, as well as beech, maple, cannot be aged in the way of brushing.

Today, antique furniture is often made in a rural interior with its sweet simplicity and homely flavor, called country music. In this area, pieces of furniture, including chairs, can be made in the style of Provence, Swiss Chalet, Russian Rustic.

In addition, artificially aged chairs are widely used in the style of rustic, which against other directions looks more rude. It is this moment that determines its peculiarity: the furniture is brutal simplicity, it is strong, reliable and at the same time beautiful.

How to make an antique chair with your own hands, see the next video.