How to form a tree with your own hands: 12 simple ways

We deal with ways of struggling of wooden surfaces: brash, patination, firing and others.

Classic interiors, Provence and Vintage are unthinkable without vintage furniture or decor. We offer you to experiment and make a thing "with history" with your own hands. We will tell you how to form a tree at home in many ways, and you will choose from them suitable.

Wood composition methods:

1. Braching
2. Patinating
3. Provence
4. Wax
5. Morilka
6. Dry brush
7. Provence
8. Rinsing
9. With vinegar
10. With the help of soda
11. Burning
12. Craquelure

Acting a tree with their own wrapping hands

The method is simple, but for it is not suitable for each breed. Aeri, larch, oak, wenge large fibers and the result will be impressive. Alder, cherry, birch, tick, on the contrary, are unsuitable for the brush due to fine-fiber text. When you decide on the material, you need to prepare tools.

You need

• Rigid metal brush.
• Abrasive brush or sandpaper.
• One of the three coatings: varnish, wax, oil.

Sequencing

• Water with water so that there is no wood dust during processing.
• Come on it with a metal brush, moving along the fibers. A rigid brush will choose soft fibers, without damaging solid. Wood will become more embossed. The deeper the relief, the more the tree seems to be a tree.
• Abrasive brushing or sandpaper Clean the surface from burrs and roughness.

It remains to apply the coating and wait until it dry. To enhance decorativeness, you can paint the product in two colors. The grooves are in a bright shade, a convex relief in the dark.

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Use patination

Now let's tell how to make a tree with the help of staining.

You need

• Paint two tones.
• Hard sponge or small sandpaper.
• Varnish.

Patigning Instructions

• Before processing, a slightly skill tree for better coating clutch.
• Apply the paint on it, selected in the tone of the furniture and let it dry.
• Repeat the procedure, but a brighter tone.
• After drying, wipe the top layer of the rigid sponge or shallow sandpaper so that the bottom has fallen.

In the end, apply varnish, let him dry. It should be the impression that the furniture was painted many times.

Use wax

Wax helps to get the effect of the destroyed upper layer of paint.

You need

• The paint of two or three colors (depending on which result you need).
• Wax (you can use the usual candle).
• Rag.
• Varnish.
• Small sandpaper.

Sequencing

• To make a job correctly, skill tree.
• Select a color that will be the main one. For example, the darker of three. Paint it product, making wide uneven strokes, let dry.
• Take the candle and, strongly pressing, rub the places where, in your opinion, there must be cutters in color.
• Then apply a light shade, wait until it dries.
• Rag well wipe the place where the wax was applied. The paint will go back there, giving the article the look of the old and shabby.

If you are satisfied with the resulting result, then the third layer can not be applied. If you want to change the color, then repeat the entire procedure. At the very end, cover the product by fixing varnish.

Covered by mournicle

Protective and coloring impregnation is wood for decades. The tinted by Morilka looks beautifully both in itself and with other technicians. For example, with the brushing.

You need

• Water based medelide.
• Morida on White Spirit.
• Soft sponge.
• Primer.
• Antique wax.

Antique wax is a fully natural product. It contains three types of wax: mineral (mountain), animal (bee), vegetable (carnab). Suitable for processing any wood. The fiction is well soaked in wood, has restoring and protective properties.

Sequencing

• Treat the item with a water-based mourn.
• Take a soft sponge and wash the impregnation, not assigger and corners. So she will look closely.
• After drying, apply a layer of simulat based on White Spirit. Leave for the night until complete drying.
• Soft sponge or tassel stuck surface, filling all cracks.
• Wait for drying and with a brush stick ancient wax.

Use dry brush

The method is simple and economical. It is suitable for furniture, which is not distinguished by relief.

You will need

• Dry, very hard brush.
• Water-based paint.

You can use the old dried brush.

Sequencing

• Loose the brush into a small amount of coating and paint furniture or decor in different directions so that there remained non-crushed places.
• Let dry.

The product after such treatment looks scratched. There is a second variant of this method. For him, you need two shades: the basic and one that you will imitate scuffs. In this case, you need to act a little differently.

Instruction

• Slide the entire surface with the base color.
• Saving a brush in the second tone and wipe it well with your cloth or paper. So that it becomes almost dry.
• Apply negligent strokes in the direction of fibers where the dirt is usually accumulated in vivo in vivo, it appears.

Make an action by the "Provence" method

We will tell how to artificially be a tree for a romantic, light interior in the style of Provence and not only.

Required tools

• Paint
• Brush
• Scraper or spatula

Sequencing

• Paint the subject.
• While it does not dry and remains sticky, scraper or spatula squand in the layer of color in the right places.
• After drying, wipe the soft cloth.
• Collect roughness.

Shipping the sticky layer is best in the corners of the furniture - so the effect of the composition will be more natural.

Use rinse

Rinse - one of the easiest ways to form wood with your own hands.

You will need

• Brush
• Paint
• Water
• Rag

Sequencing

• Paint the product in your chosen color. As in the previous method, do not wait until it dry completely.
• Take a rag and carefully rush part of the shade, creating the necessary impetus.
• Wait for drying to evaluate the result.

Make a solution of vinegar

A solution of vinegar and metallic wool can be quickly given the subject of a noble, aged view.

You will need

• Vinegar
• Steel wool (suitable ground metal sponge)
• Capacity for mixing them
• Gloves
• Wax
• Brush

Sequencing

We recommend to handle a black tea before applying the solution. In reaction with vinegar, it gives very saturated shades.

• Jump gloves and fold into the container (you can the usual glass jar) steel wool.
• Fill all the vinegar. After a few minutes, the chemical reaction will begin, the solution will become dark. The longer the solution will be incanded, the darker will be color. After a few hours it can be used.
• Mock the wood with black tea abundantly, leave to dry.
• Then dispense the vinegar solution and steel wool. It will immediately begin to absorb and attach a dark shade.

When the surface is dry, one or two layers with a solution can be made. Wait for a complete drying of the product and check it out to give the product a finished look. Instead of varnishing, you can use a wave.

Use soda

For this method, solid wood species containing a large number of tannins and having a dark color are suitable. Soda pulls out the tanyine paint and brightens the product, artificially constituted. The thing you want to generate should be untreated. If the subject was previously painted or smoked, pre-seized it. The processing solution is very easy to prepare at home.

You need

• Baking soda
• Water
• Brush
• Metal brush
• Rag

Sequencing

• Pour one part of soda in a bucket or bowl and pour one part of the water. The solution should be dense.
• Apply a thick layer of solution to the horizontal surface with a brush, leave, preferably in the sun. Until complete drying, there should be at least six hours.
• Metal brush remove the dried mortar. Intensely pressed on the brush to clean up the whole soda and additionally externally form the surface.
• Take a clean wet rag and wipe the thing well.
• Wait for drying to evaluate the result.

The procedure can be repeated several times.

Burn a tree

Firing is in demand when I want to quickly form material and at hand there are tools for work.

You will need

• Gas burner or soldering lamp
• Metal brush
• Protective glasses
• Varnish

Instructions for firing without prior processing

Soldering lamp or gas burner Quickly burn the product. Do not hold the tool in one place for a long time to prevent fire.

With brushing

• Pre-process the surface with a metal brush, choosing soft fibers. This will give the wood the necessary convexity.
• Then burn at an accelerated pace, not allowing fire.

Do not forget about protective glasses, they must be put at the very beginning of work. When performing both methods, the final stage will be lacquered.

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Take advantage of the "cracker"

In the video, it is shown below how to make a shaped tree with your own hands in the technique of "craklers".

You will need

• Two thick paints of different shades. You can use acrylic, facade.
• PVA glue.
• Hairdryer.

Sequencing

• Paint a thing in a dark shade.
• Wait for drying.
• Gustly apply PVA glue - move the brush in one direction.
• Dry glue with a hair dryer so that a crust formed on top, and the liquid layer remained inside.
• Apply a light shade from above.
• Peeze the thing with a hairdryer and take it out 2-3 times.