Decoupage is not only an opportunity to upgrade old furniture. This is a whole science that can turn a house into a work of art by handwork. Any room will be transformed if you put a beautiful table in it. After decoupling a desk for a child, you can transform his room. So you will make time when the kid teaches lessons, more enjoyable and interesting. Moreover, if decoupage was performed on the tables by oneself, and not already bought in the shop decor.
Take an old, shabby, boring table and turn it into a masterpiece. For this, you need necessarily non-varnished furniture, coarse-grained sandpaper or a grinding machine, scissors, a set of brushes of different widths, napkins, a washcloth and some cleaning agent. As for the pictures, the choice is wide. These can be images cut from printed publications, photographs, pictures printed on the printer and other liked paper elements. To get beautiful tables, decoupage is pre-assembled from different elements on the surface in the location in which they plan to glue.
Before decoupage on the tables, the surface to be decorated, you need to prepare. If it is a table made of laminated chipboard, then it is simply wiped and degreased. For this, alcohol is suitable, since its residues quickly evaporate. If there are cracks or other defects on the surface of the table, then with a spatula, fill them and sand with sandpaper. The whole wood surface must be well sanded, dust removed and primed. If you want to change the background to which decoupage will be applied, then it is best to choose acrylic paint for this purpose. If you paint the tables in an advantageous color, decoupage on them will look very impressive. After the primer and the paint have dried, we make "fitting", laying out in the optimal arrangement cut out patterns and photo on the table.
Cut the pictures and pictures into the container with water, and then put it on the file or an oilcloth picture down. Now, very carefully remove the layers of paper on which the picture is printed, and leave only the layer with the drawing itself. In order not to deal with the removal of layers, you can use drawings from magazines or other printed publications. There, the paper is much thinner and you do not need to pre-wet it, and then remove the excess, you can immediately proceed to the label.
Lubricate the surface with PVA glue. We turn the file or oilcloth and place it so that the picture lies in the desired place on the surface of the table. Gently smooth the picture (without removing the oilcloth) to remove the air between the picture and the surface of the table. After the above-described method was placed all the details of the intended pattern on the table, you need to give the glue a good dry. Then several layers of varnish should be applied to the entire surface of the table.
Successfully performing the decoupage of the table with your own hands, the photo can be put on the Internet to inspire others to create small masterpieces that so decorate the house.