How to renovate old furniture

　　Tip 1: Make homemade soft coverings for old furniture

　　Upholstered sofas that have been used for many years are most suitable for secondary decoration with fabric covers. Wooden chairs with a stiff feeling can also be "soft-covered" with fabric. The author learned from major home furnishing stores that upholstered furniture brands can freely customize the color and pattern of fabrics, and many sewing shops also provide door-to-door services to measure furniture dimensions and make fabric covers. If you want to save money, consumers can also make their own cloth covers.

　　Tip: Choose a suitable fabric to cover the parts of the furniture that need to be wrapped. For example, to make a sofa cover, you roughly need to cut out the back piece, back piece, seat piece, front piece (you can also add a ruffle under the front piece), and two side pieces (if there are armrests, you will need to cut a few more pieces). When reserving the edge, you can leave a little more to prevent the cutting from being in place. If you leave too much, you can sew it in. If you leave too little, it may not be enough. If you are using floral cloth or plaid cloth, you should also pay attention to the pattern.

　　Tip 2 Old Furniture Refurbishment Stickers

　　The best-selling "furniture renovation stickers" on the Internet are made of PVC plastic, with a wide variety of varieties and colors. They are easy to apply and can be washed with water. They are a widely used wallpaper in home decoration. After the sticker is applied to the surface of the table, it will not turn over. This kind of sticker can be removed with a little heat from a hair dryer, and it is easy to replace if you don't like it.

　　Tip: When purchasing wall stickers, make sure there will be no offset when you remove them and they will not change color easily. Some stickers have a strong smell and should be avoided by families with pregnant women and children. If you like the European style, you can stick a "hat brim" pattern on the top of the furniture. If you like the Chinese style, you can stick some hollow floral decorations on parts of the furniture. These small items can be purchased or customized in some shops selling European and American furniture and Chinese furniture.

　　Tip 3: Repaint old furniture

　　Without changing the original furniture structure, repainting is undoubtedly the first decoration method that people think of.

　　Especially for wooden furniture, consumers have become tired of the old wooden texture over the years. Experts remind consumers that not all furniture is suitable for painting. The surface of panel furniture is often bonded with a layer of melamine board that is difficult to peel off, and paint is applied on the surface, which has poor adhesion. In contrast, solid wood furniture is more suitable for repainting.

　　Tip: When it comes to paint, you should also choose products with the same properties as the original paint on the furniture surface to prevent chemical reactions between the old and new paints, causing wrinkles on the furniture surface. In addition, if you apply water-based wood paint, the wood itself can easily absorb water and become unstable. In severe cases, slight bulging and deformation may occur. Oil-based paint is relatively stable.

　　Painting process for old furniture

　　The process of painting old furniture is more complicated than making new wood. There are generally three types of paint renovation for old wooden furniture: original color renovation, adding color to make new ones, and color change renovation. In addition, it can be renovated by pasting wood grain paper and pasting melamine plastic veneer. Different construction methods need to be adopted depending on the specific situation.

　　(1) Coating old white furniture with new paint:

　　Some white furniture has been used for a long time. Although it has not been painted, the surface has been stained with a layer of oil. In this case, just use sandpaper to remove the stains, and use gasoline to scrub the oil stains, and then the wood coating process can be followed.

　　Some woodware is dry and has not been painted with color paint, but is coated with tung oil. In this case, as long as the tung oil is completely dry, scrubbed clean and smoothed with sandpaper, the wood finishing process can be followed.

　　(2) Original color renovation:

　　The wood has been painted with a mixed paint, but the color is not pleasing to the eye and needs to be repainted. The refurbished color should be the same as the original color. There are two ways to deal with this situation. One is that there is no need to prime the paint, as long as the oil stains on the paint film are scrubbed clean with soapy water or gasoline, then it can be repainted. The other is to require all old paint to be removed before painting. When removing old paint, you can tie an old cloth or gauze end to one end of a wooden stick, dip it in caustic soda solution or sodium hydroxide solution, and rub it all over the old paint surface 1 to 2 times. When you see that the old paint is peeling, quickly rinse the solution and old paint with clean water, and then wipe them dry with a clean cloth. If there are a few places where the old paint has not been removed, you can use a glass piece to scrape it off, then wipe it clean with a dry cloth, and then repaint it with new original paint or other colored paint or varnish.

　　Preparation method of caustic soda solution: Take 0.0% dry quick lime. 5 kg, soda ash 0. 25 kg, 3 kg of water. First pour the clean water into a clean wooden or iron bucket, and then immerse the lime in the clean water. When dry lime meets water, it will expand and generate heat, causing the water to boil and become lime slurry. At this time, a certain proportion of soda ash can be put into the lime slurry, and then a wooden stick can be used to stir the two evenly before use.

　　Preparation method of sodium hydroxide solution: Take industrial sodium hydroxide 0. 1kg, 60~80ºC warm water 0. 5kg. Put the sodium hydroxide in an iron bucket, then pour warm water into it to form a sodium hydroxide solution, which is ready for use. During use, it is necessary to maintain a certain temperature and do not allow the sodium hydroxide solution to cool down.

　　During use, since both caustic soda solution and sodium hydroxide solution are corrosive, be careful not to splash them on your body when preparing and using them to avoid burning your clothes and skin。

　　(3) Add color and renovation:

　　After the old wooden furniture has been used for a long time, the color becomes old, affecting the appearance, and needs to be renovated with color. The method is to add color to the original paint color and apply Qingfanlishui. The craftsmanship is similar to the original color renovation.

　　(4) Color change and renovation:

　　If wooden furniture is deformed due to expansion and contraction during use, it is necessary to ask a carpenter to repair it. The wood, color and luster of the renovated old furniture vary from old to new. In this case, the only way is to change the color and renovate it into a mixed color. The process is: removing oil stains; scraping oily putty; polishing with sandpaper; applying oil color; and varnishing.

　　After the decoration of the new house was completed, furniture became a top priority, but the appearance of the original old furniture was no longer in tune with the new home, so renovating the cabinets was put on the agenda. This move saved a lot of money for my home decoration, and it is also low-carbon and environmentally friendly, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone!

　　Tools: Paint stripper wool brush, spray paint, shovel gloves

　　First, buy the paint stripper back into the house. First, use the spray paint you bought and spray the paint stripper evenly on the surface of the cabinet.

　　After a few dozen seconds, the pieces of skin will appear and can be easily removed with a spatula.

　　After shoveling, further polishing is needed. It is much easier to polish while it is not dry yet. The picture below shows the sandpaper used for polishing.

　　After the paint is removed, it needs to be sanded and then scraped. The following is the process of scraping.

　　Finally, after scraping the bookcase, leave it overnight and wait until it is completely dry tomorrow before polishing and scraping it a second time. We use the super-strong sticky powder King. Pour it out, mix it in, and it dries in less than a minute. Therefore, you need to scrape the dust quickly, and only a little bit can be removed at a time.

　　The last step is to spray paint. Once the dust is dry, start painting.

　　Originally, I planned to apply white paint, but during the scraping and leveling process, the old paint kept returning to the bottom, and it also kept returning to the bottom after applying the white paint, dyeing the white into pink. Therefore, I had to find a paint color that was dark enough to cover the pink! ! After careful consideration, we chose blue! Why didn’t I choose China Resources polyester paint? It’s because it’s expensive and it’s an old item renovated. Painting China Resources paint requires at least 600 yuan of materials, which is not cost-effective. The final choice was Shuanghu brand blended paint. This paint is cheap, 40 yuan for a 5kg barrel. I would like to thank the captain for helping us buy dark blue everywhere, but we couldn't find it. We had to buy additional color paste, which cost 10 yuan a bottle. I blended it with the medium blue of Shuanghu Paint to finally get this color, which I feel looks like a Mediterranean-style blue! Okay, okay, let’s move from the pastoral fresh style to the Mediterranean mix and match style! This is the color paste I bought. One bottle was put into the near-medium blue Double Tiger Blend Paint, and finally it became this color!

　　Things to note

　　When spraying paint, be careful not to pull quickly, but move slowly to ensure that enough paint stripper is sprayed on each area. If you pull too fast, less paint will be sprayed on the surface, which will not corrode the paint on the surface and will evaporate quickly! ! Note that we only wore one such work glove. Facts have proved that this kind of protection is not enough.