How to paint antique

Today, the actual interior painting "under old times". The walls and furniture is given to the effect of the noble old coating. Such decoration will help to write things in common, the interior in retro style. Ways to paint under the old surface there are many. Enough to start to learn a few design tricks.

You will need

• The primer under the paint
• Paint with artificial latex
• A brush with a long NAP
• Brush
• Sponge
• Rag
• Towel
• Technical wax
• Sandpaper
• The solvent
• White alcohol
• Paint bronze, gold and green
• Set of paints-crackle
• Bitumen patina
• Vegetable oil
• Fixative lacquer

Instruction

1. Prepare the wall for painting at the old days. First, you need to clean it from dirt. Putty is not necessary – just apply a special primer under the paint. Allow it to dry for 4 hours.
2. You buy the paint, which is part of the artificial latex. Choose a brush with a long NAP. Start to paint the walls in a circular motion. From time to time push the brush on the surface will appear "worn".
3. Power trowel colored and dried the wall with a brush, sponge, or sandpaper. Your movements depends on "drawing time" on the wall.
4. Let the wall dry completely. Then with a sponge, apply two coats of wax technical for the walls. Each dried layer of Polish with a soft cloth. Dry wax will be about 6 hours at room temperature. Eventually you will get a brilliant wall with a "vintage" fading.
5. Paint under the old wooden furniture. Old layers of varnish, paint or varnish you must remove the cloth and solvent.
6. Select to your taste paint that fit the retro style. For example, bronze or gold. You can make 3 layers: green, bronze and green again. When paint dries, RUB the top major, and then fine sandpaper.
7. Wait for complete drying of the decorative layer and cover the furniture with a special varnish-crackle ("krakelyurnogo"). This tool, which crack when dry, creating interesting cracks. It is necessary to apply first nail Polish of the same species, and then (when the hands will cease to stick to the surface) is another. Components of these two layers are not aligned with each other, and because it turns out the intricate web of cracks - crackle. Carefully read the instructions to the lucky # 1 and # 2.
8. Cover the cracks with grout so they look more contrast. Apply on varnished surface with a sponge bitumen patina – it is specially released for the crackle technique. Your task is to RUB the grout into the cracks and remove the excess with a cloth soaked in vegetable oil.
9. Wipe the "antique" furniture with a towel, allow to dry and apply any nail fixer.
10. "Wear out" the walls and the furniture is beautiful can only be good once you have mastered this skill. To start, treat any wood sample or inconspicuous area of the wall. Then complete your interior in retro style. Now, if you want, can perform the same technique the facade of the building – all the necessary decorative materials resistant to the environment.