New modern furniture can cost a lot of money. If you are creative person, you can get great, modern furniture without spending to much money. Use your old furniture to make the whole new home design. How is it posible? Here are some remodeling ideas you can use to refresh your home decor.
If your old furniture is damaged, fix it. If you can’t fix the damaged part, just cover it with paint or some kind of decoration. This problem is often when we are talking about outdoor furniture. This step is almost unavoidable for older furniture which was placed in outdoor space. Sure, sometimes old indoor furniture need the same treatment. Spray paint is the cheapest way to cover damaged places.
Spray painting furniture is procedure which is saving your budget and your old furniture. Spray paint isn’t used just for covering damaged parts. It can be used to refresh your old, boring furniture. Customizing color of furniture, you are manipulating with different styles. If you like the classic style, choose neutral colors. Spray painting furniture in bright colors with big contrast will make modern, atractive effect. To avoid, well-worn look after painting, follow this tips.
Spray painting furniture damands a few steps:
1. Before you begin to paint you should prepare surface you want to paint. Remove all furniture accessories, like all kind of different holders, because you don’t want to damage it. Also, you want to paint the entire surface and accessories can only disturb you. Of course, you don’t need to paint accessories or you can paint it in different colors to get a contrast. That it also reason why should you remove accessories from your furniture. The most important part of preparation is removing old color. If you don’t remove old color, the new layer of color won’t adhere to surface corectly.
2. After removing color you should clean surface properly. This step is also very important because if you don’t clean entire surface, new color won’t adhere to surface. Now, surface is prepared.
3. Take the spray paint and put the first layer on the surface. Using gloves is strongly recommended. It’s very easy to paint furniture with spray paint. You will probably need to put al least two layers of color. If you’ve chosen lighter color than it was original one, probably, you will need to put three layers. It’s very important that you leave color to dry on before you put next layer.