Spaces of life affects our everyday life and this is why we are committed to making them comfortable and welcoming. Feeling at home often depends on choices we make for our interiors, on the style of furnishings, materials and colors. But when do tastes change? It is time to renew according to new ideas and trends , for example changing the color of furniture or walls.
A breath of fresh air: furniture and walls renovation to create interiors that reflect our desires
Simple expedients can give a totally new look to your home and office. For this reason we deflect the attention from the expensive restructuring activities to move it on spaces renovation. If wallpapers are an artistic and customisable decoration of great visual impact for walls, here is the efficient solution for furniture . The conformable and textured self adhesive film for furniture are professional materials created to cover every surface defects, dictated by the time or wear, and to give it a new and personal charm .
Self-adhesive coverings not only allow you to change colour of interiors but remodel furniture for a total renovation
Wood for the bedroom wardrobe, marble for the kitchen countertops … Textured coverings are inspired by natural and realistic elements, not only in colours but also in finishes.
Installing textured coverings for your furniture renovation is easy to do. First step certainly is selecting the favorite finish for your furniture to be remodeled among: wood , natural stones , marble , fabric and leather . Then? Let’s start with work tools.
Everything you need to install self-adhesive covering on your furniture. A satisfying and easy Do-It-Yourself project
Here are tools you need for furniture renovation: changing color, look and sometimes even the material:
- brush
- primer
- ruler
- cutter
- plastic spatula
- heat gun (or hair dryer)
- soft cloth
Preparing tools before starting with the redesign of your piece of furniture will allow you to work quickly and have an optimal result. The heat gun is an important tool to shape the covering and adapt it to all corners of the furniture, even the most difficult. Professional heat guns (1800 W – 2200 W) are the perfect tool to use but if you prefer using the hair dryer you need to be sure about its power, at least 1500 W to ensure a good air flow. Last but not least, checking the covering is thermoformable in product technical specifications is essential.
The starting point to renovate your furniture is cleaning the old surface, here the extra advice to avoid problems
Self-adhesive coverings can be installed on all types of surfaces, walls and furniture, provided that they are perfectly smooth and free of debris, dust or dirt. It is advisable to use the soft cloth on furniture with not heavy duty degreasing products, possibly only with water if it’s sufficient, absolutely not alcohol . Moreover it is always better to finish the application area to make it completely smooth.
For the best final result: prepare the surface and apply the primer
The size of brush to apply the primer depends on the area of the surface to be covered, in fact it is not always necessary or helpful to have a big brush. To prime optimally it is important mixing the undercoat well so as not to have lumps in it.
Once ready, the primer must be applied to the smooth surface evenly, trying to extend it over the most complicated points to be covered.
How to apply covering without having bubbles, and if it happens there is no need to worry about it thanks to some quick trick
Here we are in the heart of the real furniture restyling. The first step concerns the protective coating paper: it must be removed gradually and gently to handle the film easily. To make the passage easier, it is advisable to cut the excess of the coating keeping about 3 cm abundances on each side. It is thus possible to start with the application using the spatula to make the decoration adhere to the surface. The movement with the spatula must be continuous, from the center of the coating to the outside to avoid the formation of bubbles.
Now it’s time to use the heat gun, especially when you come across the edges of the furniture, the most complicated points to cover. The work must be carried out with the heat gun held about 20cm away from the coating, with a continuous movement for a uniform heat on the surface. If you use the hair dryer at home, and therefore less powerful, the process will take longer, but the decoration, when heated, will become moldable according to your needs.
The advice for the unexpected: to remove the bubbles, it is useful to gently pierce the adhesive film with a needle and heat it slightly to flatten the decoration.
To conclude with a beauty result of your decoration project
We have reached the last step to give a new color and a new identity to the furniture: the finish. The best way to trim bleeds is to place the ruler on the liner and lean with the utility knife. In this way the cut will be clean and precise.
Now the final check of all the work to make sure there are no bubbles and swellings. In the eventuality, there is no need to be discouraged, just heat the coating for the last time with the heat gun and make it adhere better.
Now you know all the details on how to apply adhesive coatings and change color to furniture, transform it and give it a whole new charm. Adhesive coatings are also ideal for renewing the style of walls. Check out Ambientha’s guide for the application of texture coverings on walls for a new and satisfying DIY job.
