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How to Make Furniture Look Vintage

How to Make Furniture Look Vintage

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How to Make Furniture Look Vintage

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  1. How to Make Furniture Look Vintage

  2. Nothing distresses me more than a lack of distressed furniture. With the ubiquitousness of stores like IKEA, there's no shortage of well-designed, stylish, affordable furniture. The other side of this coin, however, is that your apartment ends up looking like a showroom. My wife and I have decorated thoroughly and tastefully, but except for her old socks which hang on every surface, there's nothing about our furniture that suggests age.

  3. If you're like me, you appreciate the look of vintage furniture. It lends an air of sophistication and rustic appeal to any living space. If you're truly like me, you're also aghast at the prices that genuine vintage furniture can demand.

  4. So, what's the best way to full your home with fetchingly vintage furniture without taking out a second mortgage? Why, buy some of the aforementioned quality affordable pieces from IKEA et. al., and make it vintage. Not only is this easy and fun, it leaves a lot of room for personalization. Read through the following steps to create your own, unique "vintage" furniture, and end up having a living space that looks like it belongs to Ernest Hemingway (without the cheetah skin mounted over the bookshelf).

  5. Step 1: Let's Get Soft Age does the same thing to furniture as it does to everything else: it dulls edges, rounds corners, and generally makes things "softer". With this in mind, there's no better starting point than softening all the hard edges of your piece. Take a hammer and hit all of the corners and edges, including the legs. Next, take some sandpaper (a good rough grain is a good idea at this stage, I recommend 60) and go over all the edges. However, do not do this in a uniform manner. You want the furniture to look weathered, not systematically sanded down. A perfectly even wear is what you want to avoid, so try to go harder on the areas where more action is likely to have occurred, such as leaning one's feet or arms on it.

  6. Step 2: Wham Bam That Furniture Looks Antique Ma'am This is one of the more enjoyable steps to "vintage-izing" your furniture. Take the hammer that you'd used in Step 1, and drop it a few times from a height of about 15cm all over the piece. Provided you're not using the Gravity Hammer from Halo, this should give the piece some nice nicks, gouges, and scrapes, and suggest that it's of an advanced age. Also, don't be afraid to flip the hammer around and use the claw to add some longer scrapes along the surface of the piece. How hard you drop and scrape depends on the type of wood you're working with, as softer woods like pine will be more easily damaged than cherry or oak.

  7. Step 3: True Colours This is where most people go wrong when making new furniture look old. They've followed the first two steps, but then they apply some lovely fresh paint. This makes the furniture look poorly made as opposed to vintage. So, how can one avoid this? Choose two contrasting colours, then paint one over the other to make it look as if the original colour has been painted over. The colour choices are up to you, but just be sure to let the first coat dry before you apply the second, as you don't want them blending together. When applying the second colour, don't paint over every inch of the piece. Leave some of the first colour exposed, to give the impression of the paint having been worn down over the years/decades/centuries (how old are you telling people this furniture is, by the way?).

  8. More info here: http://www.collectionasturias.com/ http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Make-Furniture-Look-Vintage&id=9104510

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