Original chairs "antique"

Currently, at the peak of popularity is antique furniture, as well as artificially aged. Not every lover of vintage furniture will afford to purchase new items in their collection. The cost of a set of antique chairs can reach transcendental heights. While antique furniture is quite affordable and will allow you to furnish your home in the style of a chalet, country, Provence, fusion, chebbi-chic and many others.

Aged furniture has a special energy, it creates a soft comfort, warmth and pleasant atmosphere. No wonder fans of antiques spread fabulous money for each antique item. Connoisseur of vintage can not do without luxurious vintage chairs.Any interior without them will seem unfinished.

Our ancestors for the manufacture of furniture most often used pine, because it is very common and accessible everywhere. In addition, the texture of the wood itself reveals and appears brighter over the years, which gives the product a richer look.

Each century left its mark on furniture and styles.in which it was made. Some directions originated simultaneously with the ones described below and the products made in these styles have not survived to our time, therefore they can be known only to venerable specialists and historians.

This style is characterized by clear lines, deliberate rudeness, sharpness. In shades dominate black, deep brown, maroon, wine tones. Special luxury chairs in the Gothic style give a bronze lining, rich inlay and carving. These chairs are more like the majestic thrones with high backs and massive legs.

In this style, a chair is no longer just a piece of furniture, a luxurious interior decoration.The chairs began to be decorated with precious stones and carvings, lining of gold and silver appeared, crossed legs, and they also began to be made in the form of animal paws, for example, a lion. Similar chairs already began to resemble chairs.

Empire style chairs with their luxury and grandeur and are designed to bring the power, power and welfare of its owner. These chairs are able to decorate the master bedroom. Distinctive features of such furniture are massive bent legs-paws, decorated with rich carvings with a delicate floral and floral motif. The seats and backs of chairs often have soft velvet cushions, edged with braid, twisted braid and ribbons. Also required brushes, brooches and bows of decorative cord. Characteristic colors of the Empire style - from maroon, purple, red, to pastel, beige, cream. The main decoration of the legs is gilding.

Furniture in this style focuses not only on its beauty, but also on the wealth of its owner. Baroque chairs are distinguished by unique, rich carved motifs of high backs, luxurious upholstery, sophisticated and delicate ornaments. Also required are cherubs, a lot of curls and rounded shapes, smooth lines, in short, everything that bears a romantic mood. Baroque style chairs are characterized by their grandeur, pomp and abundance of ornament.

Being a continuation of the baroque, this style in the design of chairs was sometimes too eccentric. A certain capricious whimsical lines, fragmentation of the ornament, more rounded and soft forms made rococo very elegant and delicate.

The chairs, made in this style, are completely devoid of thread and have a small, smooth bend of the legs. Modern was designed to bring a new, fresh vision of furniture. With unchanged functionality, the appearance should convey with the help of new ideas, materials and techniques the spirit of the new era.

Classicism inherent pomp, straight lines, symmetry and restraint. Chairs can have both oval and rectangular backs. In early classicism, the legs of the chairs were made curved and carved, decorated with floral patterns, inserts of porcelain, enamel and gilding. Later they began to run straight and without decoration.

Simple antique wood chairs decorate the interior in a rustic style. This is a very simple and at the same time original appearance of interior design.

The main decoration of the tree is the maximum underlining of its structure.which manifests itself with time. In their production used pine, oak, larch. With artificial aging of the chair, the master removes the top layer, exposing the natural structure of the tree, its layers, annual rings, knot cuts. Then there is the process of drying, impregnation with colored stains to enhance the antiquity, and then coating with varnishes.To create the effect of particularly old wood, matte varnishes and dark impregnations can be used.

When creating a design room in the style of chebbi-chic, the chairs are intentionally aged and decorated with decoupage. They will decorate both the home interior and the rustic bar. This rather popular method of aging of furniture does not go out of fashion both in the West and in Russia. It is quite simple and absolutely anyone who wants to transform their furniture can easily do it at home with their own hands.

Then the pictures are applied using the decoupage technique. To do this, you can use paper napkins with a suitable pattern, special sheets with ornaments from creative stores or magazine clippings. Images can be partially applied to individual parts of the chair, or to cover the entire surface.After the pictures have dried on, an acrylic lacquer for decoupage is applied to the chair, and after it a craquelure lacquer is applied to create cracks that will turn your chair into a real retro thing.

To do this, you must completely clean the chair from varnish and paint and wash. Then process with emery paper 150-250 grit and apply the selected water-soluble paint. After the paint is completely dry, the varnish is applied and dried thoroughly. When the varnish is dry, it should be sanded with 240-360 grit sandpaper. And only after that the patina is applied by spraying. Then you need to remove the patina from the surface with steel wool so that it remains only in the grooves and cracks. The final step is applied to the finish layer of varnish. Your updated aged chair is ready.

For aging by bleaching, special pastes are used, which penetrate into scratches, pores, and wood cracks, creating the impression of vintage.The surface of the chair is cleaned from varnish with sandpaper in 150-250 grit, then 280-360 grit. Zones to be aged are stained, for example, with brown paint. Then you need to apply wax and cover with white paint in several layers, carefully drying each one. These zones need to scrape with a knife or blade, and then all to process a fine sandpaper to align the layer.

Not the easiest, but very effective method of aging furniture. At branching, the soft parts of wood are removed and various stains and impregnations are applied. An incredible beauty result is obtained as a result, since it is impossible to predict how this or that type of wood will behave under the influence of stains.

Branching makes it possible to give the tree unusual shades and nuances, create smooth transitions from deep and rich colors to light and transparent. Moreover, this method looks absolutely natural and expensive. A chair treated in this way will be protected from rotting and external influences. It will be almost impossible to break it, and you can update and refresh as many times as you like. In addition, the furniture will be made in a single copy, which means it will become exclusive.

How to decorate antique chairs, see the following video.