Manufacturers now offer a wide selection of different input and interior doors, which differ not only in their functionality, but also in design. To create an original and exclusive interior, many spend a very long time selecting suitable doors. The buyer always wants them to be high quality and sophisticated. That is why antique models are extremely popular. This design can make them the highlight of any interior.

Peculiarities

Antique doors are very popular nowadays. Their main feature is exclusivity and luxurious appearance. They can make any room more luxurious and the interior more elegant. They look very expensive and allow you to emphasize refined taste and high social status owner of the house. These designs can be compared to antiques.

Not every store now has antique doors. That is why many try to make them with their own hands. This way you can interestingly change the design of the doors and personalize them.

Vintage models are distinguished by the fact that each of them is different from the others. All of them have a unique pattern, made by nature itself or artificially created by man, but still unique.

It is very difficult to select completely identical models; this is the highlight of such a product. By making scuffs on doors with your own hands, you can completely transform their design. You can provide a gradient and abrasions in certain places. Many simple wooden doors are transformed with antique decor. This way you can make a very simple and unsightly design more expensive and exclusive.

By aging the doors yourself, you can show your imagination and creativity. This way you can place accents in the room in a very interesting way. The peculiarity of real antique doors is that they carry long history. Every abrasion, chip and crack is an event that affected the life of such a wooden structure. These doors can bring back memories and immerse you in a completely different atmosphere.

Species

All doors are divided into 2 large groups:

• Interior. This option is installed indoors, and these models are used both in apartments and in private houses or country houses. Such a door can be placed in a special room or used to decorate the entrance to all rooms in the house. Typically, aged doors are installed in halls and living rooms. Interior structures are not very bulky, but their size depends on the height of the ceilings and the area of ​​the room, as well as the width doorway. These can be large double doors or regular compact double doors.

• Input. Such structures are usually installed at the entrance to the house. They are very rarely used in apartments, because staircase they look a little strange. Most often, such structures are installed in country houses or cottages. They look very beautiful in an ensemble with a large and spacious porch. This luxurious combination looks very status and unusual.

Materials

Wood is most often used to create such doors. But some manufacturers offer plastic models with an artificial aging effect. They look less attractive than their wooden counterparts. This is due to the fact that plastic itself has smooth surface and quite dense texture. Therefore, designs affected by time will be very difficult to create. Such designs do not look very natural.

Also aged plastic doors They don’t look as presentable as wooden ones. Over time, pores appear in plastic, into which dirt gets clogged. This product does not at all look like a luxurious interior element.

There is also metal models antique doors, usually input structures. Most often these are massive products with a large number of protruding elements. Very popular are entrance doors with forging. It is very difficult to make abrasions on metal with your own hands. That's why if you want to buy metal door semi-antique, it is necessary to give preference to ready-made factory models or products that have actually reflected the effects of time.

Most often, antique doors are made of wood.

The wood itself is slightly porous and has an unusual cross-sectional pattern. All doors will be different from each other and will have interesting design. There are a large number of interesting combinations in solid wood. They are also used for artificial aging.

But naturally aged models look no less presentable. Models made from solid pine look very luxurious. Such wooden doors can be aged with your own hands using tinting, brushing, patination and other methods. Also, aged doors are made from MDF. Such designs can be bought ready-made, or you can artificially age them with your own hands.

The only drawback of MDF doors is that they are quite dense and uniform in structure, which makes them difficult to age. Therefore, veneer veneer is used for artificial aging. In some cases, it is even necessary to paint such doors in several layers and rub them to give them an unusual antique relief.

Antique doors are also made from chipboard. This material is artificially aged, like MDF. But vintage entrance structures made of pine, oak or ash look most realistic and elegant. Some of these products are made from boards.

How to choose?

When choosing an antique door, you first need to pay attention to where you plan to place it. If you buy an interior door, you need to take into account the size of the doorway, as well as the humidity in the room and temperature. This is very important for antique doors, since these factors can negatively affect such structures. If such a door leads to the kitchen, then it is better to purchase the product that is most resistant to moisture and temperature.

Also, when choosing, do not forget that these can be not only classic swing structures. If you have a wide passage that leads into the hall, then you can install double doors. They will look very luxurious. For narrow aisles, it is better to purchase single-leaf swing models. These could be doors leading to the bedroom, kitchen, guest room or other room.

You can also install them at the entrance. Most often, such products are made to order, since it is difficult to find a beautiful antique door with beautiful design and at the same time predict its size. That is why it is better to order such products to order.

For more expensive interior design, only natural luxurious products made from solid wood are suitable. For an inexpensive room, it is better to choose models made from chipboard and MDF.

This design should fit correctly into the interior of the room. An antique door is perfect for decorating the entrance to a room decorated in modern style. Therefore, the interior of the room is also important to consider. Even though these are antique doors, even if truly vintage, they should serve their role well. Check the quality door frame and the canvas itself. Also check the quality and good functioning of the door hardware.

When choosing such doors, it is important to consider that Models with locks look the most elegant. This detail can make the design more luxurious and interesting, especially if the castle is unusual. Customer reviews show that they look very nice in the interior carved doors antique Buyers write that such designs are very interesting and unique. They have very unusual ornaments that attract attention and make the design more luxurious.

Various styles

Most often, vintage doors are installed in rooms that are more classical in style or in rooms decorated in a retro theme. Usually this is an interesting design wooden products, made in dark colors, such as brown or even black. But these doors can also be installed in a room decorated in a loft style. This style in itself is quite brutal. Moreover, most often rooms decorated in this style are distinguished by unusual things.

So, you can install antique doors on a large wardrobe. This vintage design will be not just a closet, but a central element of the interior of any room. For children, such a wardrobe can become a place for their games, for example, to enter Narnia. Such an antique cabinet will not go unnoticed and will attract the attention of all guests.

Such designs fit perfectly into rooms made in Mediterranean style. In such rooms you can install models with beautiful ornaments and complement them with carved shutters. You can complete the ensemble with large massive tables made of similar material. All these antique items look very harmonious and elegant. Doors made from untreated boards with massive fittings are perfect for this.

This design can also be installed in a room decorated in a minimalist style. This accent detail can enliven such a rustic, at first glance, interior. Forged doors with bars or wooden models with thread. Artificially aged models are more suitable for such an interior.

Very often, vintage doors are purchased for apartments and houses decorated in the spirit of shabby. Such models usually have cracks and even shabby surfaces. Typically these doors are made of light wood. Moreover, this style can be complemented with a similar design cabinet or screen.

How to paint?

Nowadays it is quite difficult to find a real antique door in a store, so many people make artificially aged doors with their own hands. To do this, use a method called patination. It is characterized by applying several layers of paint and creating artificial abrasions. To paint a door this way, you need to apply the first coat of paint in the color of your choice. Moreover, it is better if the base coat is as smooth as possible. There should be no gaps or, on the contrary, clots.

The next layer must be applied only with a soft brush. Moreover, it is better if you apply lighter paint a second time. After this, you should not wait until the second coat of paint is completely dry. You need to take any cloth or thick paper and rub the door in some places, usually this is done around the edges. After this, you need to let the door dry.

When the paint dries, you need to coat it with varnish. Then you need to wipe the surface sandpaper in some places. This way you can create a whole vintage masterpiece.

One of the ways to give doors an original appearance, sophistication and status, without using the services of third-party organizations and various finishing specialists, is to make an antique door with your own hands.

All work, regardless of what area finishing works they relate to, begin with drawing up a plan of activities that need to be carried out in the process of performing work.

The work must be divided into several stages: preparatory, execution of work, final, each of which corresponds specific tasks requiring solutions and a specific algorithm for their implementation.

Preparatory stage

At this stage of the work, the door to be processed is removed from its hinges and prepared for the aging process. If necessary, the door frame is also dismantled so that the entire door, subject to aging, looks in the same style.

I would like to immediately point out that we can only talk about a wooden door made from solid wood or thick edged lumber.

Work begins with removal old paint, and in order for it to be removed easily, it must be processed in a special way.

There are several such methods, these are:

• Heat treatment – door leaf and the door frame heat up.

Under the influence high temperature the paint swells. For these purposes, use a hair dryer (when working in an apartment or garage), or drying chamber or oven - if it is possible to use them.

After heating, the old paint is removed with a spatula.

• Treatment with chemicals.

For these purposes, various solvents and chemical reagents are used, upon contact with which the paint applied to the surface of the door is destroyed.

Fragments of destroyed paint are removed with a spatula and a soft swab moistened with a chemical reagent used to treat the door.

• Mechanical processing.

This method involves removing old paint by using abrasives (sandpaper), when removal is carried out manually, or grinding wheels and brushes mounted on an electric hand tool(angle grinder, drill, screwdriver).

After the old paint is removed, all cracks and chips on the door elements are removed. For this purpose, special mastics and putties are used. The color of the materials used to seal cracks must be the same tone as the surface of the door.

When the putty is completed, all surfaces are sanded. For this purpose, an electric hand tool is used, as in the case of mechanical processing, with grinding consumables(circles, petals, brushes).

Carrying out door aging work

There are several ways to give appearance doors have an old appearance, these are: brushing, painting with stain, patination, abrasion and craquelure.

In order to decide how to achieve desired result, you need to study them all, and only after that decide which method is most suitable for specific situation and a specific object of work.

1. Brushing.

This processing method is performed in the following order:

• The surface of the door is treated with a hard metal brush, so that soft fabrics The trees were removed and the relief structure of the tree emerged on the surface.

The depth of the structure must be uniform over the entire surface of the door leaf.

• When the structure has appeared, it is necessary to remove the fluff and hairiness of the surface, which are formed when treating the surface with a stiff brush. To remove them, use a metal brush equipped with soft wires.

All work is carried out exclusively along the grain of the wood.

• After the fibers are removed, the surface is polished using a soft brush made of polymer materials.
• The finished surface is treated with oil, which contains wax.

This method allows you to give the door natural look an old product that cannot be distinguished from a naturally aged structure.

1. Painting with stain.

The simplest and least expensive method, but it requires attention when performing the work and patience of the person using it.

Processing is performed in the following sequence:

• The prepared surface is covered aqueous solution stains, its excess is removed.
• Chips and cracks that are treated with putty are separately coated several times so that their color matches the color of the door leaf and frame.
• If necessary, to give a rich color, the stain is applied several times.
• After drying, the surface is covered with an alkaline-based primer and wax, which is rubbed into all elements of the door.

1. Patination.

This method is based on the use of several paints of different shades.

The work is performed as follows:

• The surface is covered with paint of a basic, darker color. A spray bottle is used for this, because... the presence of smudges that form when using a brush or roller will ruin the entire work.
• After the applied paint, the main color, has dried, paint of a different shade, lighter than the main layer, is applied. In this case, a brush is used, and one must also try to avoid the formation of smudges. The main task of applying this layer is to draw the structure of the tree (stripes are drawn).
• When the second layer of paint begins to dry, but does not dry completely, the painted surface must be wiped with a dry cloth, so that the originally applied layer appears in places through the second layer.
• After the second layer has dried, the painted surface is varnished.

1. Fabric wear.

This method is also performed using paints.

The work is performed in the following order:

• The prepared surface of the door is painted with dark-colored paint.
• After the paint has dried, different areas doors, in accordance with personal desires, paraffin is applied.
• A second layer of paint in lighter colors is applied over the paraffin layer.
• When the paint of the second layer has dried, the applied paraffin is removed using a spatula.
• The surfaces to be treated are polished.
• After sanding, the surfaces are treated with stain.

1. Craquelure.

This method is characterized by technologies for producing cracks of varying depths on a painted surface.

The name of the aging method “craquelure” is the name of the material that creates the effect of breaking the integrity of the layers of paint applied to the surface.

The order of work is as follows:

• A layer of base paint is applied to the door elements.
• After drying, craquelure is applied to the surface. A spray bottle is used for this.
• Under the influence of the applied substance, the paint layer becomes covered with cracks of varying depths, giving the door an old look.

Final stage

After the aging of the door is completed, the door leaf and door frame are installed in their place. Their performance is checked and the results obtained are evaluated.

Anyone can make antique doors with their own hands, for this the main thing is to have free time and the desire to do this work yourself, and the guarantee of success will be patience and attentiveness.

Despite the use of advanced technologies in the production of furniture and other carpentry, there are always connoisseurs of antiquity who prefer antiques to trendy products. An indispensable element of interiors decorated in an old-fashioned style are antique wooden doors.

DIY aged interiors wooden structures look amazing. But in order for them to be in perfect harmony with the interior, the following conditions must be met:

• the room must be large enough;
• The door must be in good condition.

And if interior wooden structures are adjusted to the interior, then the entrance antique wood products themselves set the tone in choosing a design solution.

Aging of solid wood doors is carried out using the following methods:

1. brushing;
2. staining wood;
3. "attrition";
4. patination;
5. craquelure:
6. additional ways.

To age a door leaf with your own hands, you will need a solution of stain on water based.

The process itself looks like this:

1. The wood is covered with a main layer of dye.
2. Using a sponge, wash off the freshly applied stain. But they only process separate areas(central part of the canvas): corners, cracks and borders are not touched. Using a small brush, the depressions are additionally treated with stain.
3. As soon as the wood dries, apply a finishing layer of stain (this time using a white spirit-based coloring composition). Then wait until the workpiece dries.
4. Using a brush or sponge, cover the door leaf with alkaline primer. This composition allows you to fix the color carpentry.
5. Apply antique wax to the surface and rub it in lightly. To do this job you will need a special metal brush.

The antique door obtained using this method looks amazing, and the effect lasts for a long time.

Brushing

The main tool used in this step is a stiff wire brush. With the help of this device, soft layers of wood are deformed and removed from the surface being treated, and the door leaf acquires a relief appearance.

As a rule, such a pattern can only be seen on old wood, but here it appears after just a few hours of work. After such rough processing with special tool The burrs are removed, then the joinery is sanded and varnished.

But, unfortunately, not every type of wood can be aged using this method. For example, birch, beech and maple have a poorly defined structure, so brushing is not used for this wood. But it is better to age interior products made of pine, oak and larch using this method.

Entrance and interior antique wooden doors look elegant.

Patination

To age interior doors made of solid maple or beech with your own hands, use the patination method. The first step is to select a paint that best matches the basic tone of the product. You need to paint the surface with this product (apply one layer). It is very important to do this work carefully: there should be no drips. Then the product is allowed to dry.

Next, wooden doors should be painted with a second coat of light-colored paint, for example, milky white. However, it is not recommended to use too bright paint, since it will reduce the “antique” effect. Then the product is left and waited until it dries.

Then take fine-grained sandpaper and sand the surface with it. As a result, through top layer the lower base will begin to appear: it will seem as if this piece of furniture had to be painted more than once in the past, and it is already many years old.

At the same time, the age of a piece of joinery depends on the degree of its “shabbyness”: the more frayed the surface, the older the piece of furniture made of wood appears.

“Attrition” of the surface of the door leaf

An antique door is created in several stages:

1. It is necessary to paint the surface of the door leaf (the dye is applied evenly).
2. Paraffin should be applied to individual areas of the product.
3. Then you need to cover the door with another coat of paint (this time use light paint).
4. Using a spatula, carefully remove the paraffin.
5. Afterwards you need to sand the surface of the door leaf and cover the surface with stain.

Before installing such antique doors, you need to wait until they are completely dry.

Craquelure

To age a door made of solid pine or hardwood wood, the following sequence of work is performed:

1. The surface is covered with base paint.
2. Apply a layer of craquelure varnish.
3. Cover the product with paint, the color of which contrasts or, on the contrary, combines with the base.

Under the influence of craquelure varnish, the top layer of paint becomes cracked, and the surface acquires an antique effect. Such an antique door - exquisite decoration interior or exterior.

Additional methods

In addition, you can age wooden interior or entrance doors with your own hands using thermal, chemical and mechanical methods.

The chemical method is best used for doors made of solid hardwood (they contain more tannins), so it is unacceptable for pine products. Its essence is as follows: on a surface sanded with fine-grained sandpaper, apply ammonia. Ammonia, which reacts with tannins, contributes to the darkening of the wood and the bright appearance of the wood structure.

To age a solid pine product with your own hands, use the thermal method. To do this, you will need a blowtorch: it is used to burn the door leaf. Moreover, a door made of solid pine should be burned until the structure of the wood begins to appear on its surface. After this, clean the product with a stiff brush.

A similar effect can be achieved if you cover a solid pine door with black ink and “paint” it with shoe polish on top. Ink penetrates deeply into the structure of the wood and gives the wood a black color, and shoe polish protects antique products from fading.

In addition, mechanical methods of aging the door leaf are also used. The essence of this method: the door is shot with small shot or the canvas is treated with an awl, due to which the product takes on the appearance of being eaten away by bugs. An antique door created using this method looks amazing.

Retro-style interiors, with antique objects and furniture, require window and door designs the appropriate type. Finishing with an antique effect can be done with your own hands, while you can age either a completely new canvas or reconstruct an existing one if it is made of solid wood.

Old wooden doors - removing paint before reconstruction

If there is an old, painted wood block from the array, it is cleaned before work on artificial aging. There are various techniques for removing paint:

• mechanical;
• thermal;
• chemical.

In the first case, the old paint is removed with a spatula, knife and sanded with sandpaper to remove any damage that has appeared. You can also use special attachments for a drill - this will make the job easier and faster. Paint removal can also be done using heat. To do this, the paint is burned blowtorch, and charred residues are removed with sandpaper. If there was glazing, the glass must be removed before work. Chemical method: the action of special compounds to soften old paint, as a result of which it peels off and is easily removed with a spatula.

If after removing the coating you find dark spots, they are processed special means for bleaching wood. Work is carried out outdoors or in a room with good ventilation.

Wood processing methods for creating an antique door with your own hands

Almost all methods of making an antique door include an imitation of the surface, which over a long period of time has lost its soft, summer fibers and acquired a natural, uneven texture. Main processing methods: thermal, chemical and mechanical.

Do-it-yourself heat treatment of an antique wooden door

The entire canvas is burned with a blowtorch so that the burnt layer is about 3 mm deep (not up to the coals!). Next, using a stiff metal brush or drill with a special coarse grinding attachment, the burnt part is cleaned off, exposing hard fibers that are more temperature-resistant. The surface is treated with soft sandpaper, after which it can be painted with stain or left with uneven markings. Finishing– 2 – 3-layer varnish.

A chemical method for creating an antique door with your own hands

This method consists of treating hardwood lumber with alkali products - household chemicals(for example, a plumbing cleaner) or special compounds. The product must be applied and left for some time until the surface becomes gray. Residues of chemicals should be washed off with water and a weak solution of vinegar should be applied to neutralize the alkali. After drying, the product is cleaned with a stiff brush and can be painted if the gray color does not harmonize with the interior. Finish coating– transparent varnish.

Mechanical techniques for creating an antique door with your own hands

Mechanical preparation and painting techniques include:

• staining;
• brushing;
• patination;
• crackling.

Treatment with stain or how to paint a door antique

Making a door leaf stained to achieve the effect of an antique product is quite simple. Moreover, expensive varieties are not required; pine is quite suitable.

It is necessary to apply very carefully with a brush or sponge to all wooden parts. door block water-based stain, and then use a sponge to collect excess liquid in the places that need to be lightened - near door handles, along the perimeter of the canvas, around the glass, or as your own taste and imagination dictates. After drying, you can stain individual areas once or twice more, then treat the surface with shellac primer and varnish (shellac is a resinous waste product of tropical insects).

To understand what color you will get after treatment with stain, first try to carry out all the stages of painting on a separate board.

Brushing is a method of removing soft fibers mechanically

The relief in this case is the same as with thermal and chemical method. Only here the surface preparation is first rough and then soft grinding, which is carried out along the fibers, except for knots, burls and curls - these places are treated in a circular motion with a brush and sandpaper.

After the relief of time-aged wood has been revealed, the canvas is coated with several layers of varnish. After the first application, the surface is cleared of individual raised wood fibers by sanding. If desired, you can tint the product with stain before varnishing.

It looks most impressive when processed wood lumber with different colors of annual rings - oak, ash, walnut, wenge, larch. This method is not used for maple, beech, alder, cherry and many others.

Patering - a two-color technique to paint a door in an antique style

The preparation of the canvas before applying the patina is carried out by brushing, after which a layer of white or light primer is applied, dried, protruding wood fibers are removed with sandpaper and one layer of varnish is applied. Next, the entire canvas needs to be painted with patina. light color, for example sulfur. The dried layer of patina is sanded with sandpaper, an abrasive stone or the hard side of a kitchen sponge. The patina will remain in the grooves of the wood.

At the second stage, a patina of the second color is applied - dark walnut or dark brown, with the edges highlighted in a denser layer. After drying, the same tools are used to remove the patina in places, while achieving a smooth transition between colors. Fix the resulting wood pattern with varnish, applying it in two layers with intermediate drying.

Craqueluering

Craquelure is a specific method of aging a door block, in which it must first be painted with a light shade of paint, and after drying, it must be opened with craquelure varnish. When dried, the resulting film decreases significantly in volume, and the product becomes covered with a network of cracks.

Now you know how to make an antique door with your own hands and everyone will be able to choose the method that suits the interior of their home.

Antique doors are attractive in their own way, but dilapidated blocks do not fit into the design of the room. We will tell you how to age wood with your own hands at home, and describe each aging effect in detail.

Thermal aging of wood

New wooden doors modern design They are a rather expensive product.

Truly antique doors

At repair work In a building of any type, there is a desire to update everything, including the interior ceilings of openings. Of course, blocks made from valuable solid rocks can be restored by contacting a specialized workshop, but this process also very expensive.
There is an alternative to restoration, which involves artificial aging of wood using the most in various ways. Antique doors in in its original form unattractive products. But skillfully aged canvases, especially with your own hands and without unnecessary costs, will become a real masterpiece design design.

Artificial aging on a solid wood door

Even outdated solid pine doors can be resurrected in the simplest way. One of the least expensive ways to create antique doors from an old block is thermal firing. This method of aging wood requires only a blowtorch and a wire brush:

• The block is first prepared for work: the canvas is removed from its hinges, freed from fittings, and cleared of layers of paint.

You can remove paint from wood using a mechanical or chemical method: burn the surface with the same blowtorch, or heat it with a hair dryer and remove the paint with a spatula, or treat the surface with a composition that corrodes paint coatings.

If there are cracks on the surface of the plank door, they do not need to be puttied to give a more antique look.

• Next, the canvas is opened with paint and varnish compounds that will emphasize the depth of the decorative surface.
• New fittings are selected to match the design style: steel handles with a bronze effect, or forged products, the same hinges and other elements.

View of the solid wood after firing and varnishing

As a result, the design will have a rough, colorful appearance. As you can see, the process itself is simple enough to reproduce it with your own hands at home. Time this method It takes very little, but it will take time to safely master the interaction with a blowtorch.

Everything ingenious is in simplicity: stain, shoe polish and other means

The simplest coloring agents, which are available, if not in every home, then available to the consumer, will help you make wood look antique.

Solid wood canvases tinted with coloring compounds

The next method under consideration can be called wood blackening. The process can use shoe polish, stain, or a strong solution of potassium permanganate.

Before aging the wood, the surface of the sash is properly prepared:

• the existing fittings are removed;
• the canvas is cleaned of the old paint layer using one of the convenient methods presented above;
• Fits in a horizontal position for ease of work.

• the surface is first cleaned with a solvent;
• then covered with mascara, for example, black;
• shoe polish melts to a fluid state;
• The liquid composition is gradually applied to the wood and rubbed with a brush.

Shoe polish (shoe polish) for blackening wood

The force of rubbing shoe polish into the wood should be strong. We need to saturate the array well to achieve the effect of old, darkened wood.

The artificial aging method under consideration can disfigure wood that has fungal infections or mold.

To the only drawback this method aging of the array can be attributed to sufficient bad smell the most used composition.

Solid after blackening

To dry the door and get rid of the smell, it is better to leave the structure in the fresh air for several days.

To enhance the effect of the look of antique doors, if you use stain to darken the wood, it is recommended to do the following manipulations:

Interior doors covered with stain and varnish

This more complicated method of aging wood will not only give the door a vintage look, but will also preserve the structure for decades. Wax for wood, as protective coating, can be used by almost anyone.

We violate the integrity of the layer: craquelure

There are special paints available to consumers with the effects of cracked or peeling paintwork on the surface.

Craquelure with contrasting colors

Using standard compositions, it is possible to create on any type of structure created from absolutely different material, the effect of a paint layer being damaged by time.

Technology of artificial production of small and deep cracks through the use of craquelure varnish, it allows you to create an aging effect on the surface of any quality material. The main thing is to strictly follow the instructions for using the composition:

• the first layer of paint and varnish of any color is applied to a wood or any other surface as a base;
• the completely dried layer is covered with a finishing layer, that is, craquelure is applied.

The active components that craquelure varnish contains cover the base layer of paint and, after drying, cause the surface to crack. The aging effect of the coating looks like cracked old paint.

Craquelure in contrasting colors

Artistic decorative cracks will appear within just a few minutes. And now the antique doors are completely ready for use, oddly enough.

Vintage look of craquelure coating

There are other ways of aging wood that are similar to the craquelure effect. At the same time, there is no need to purchase craquelure varnish, which reduces the cost factor, because it is not so cheap. All methods can be reproduced with your own hands at home using practically available tools:

• PVA glue.

A fairly thick layer of PVA adhesive is applied to the surface of the door slab. Without allowing the glue to dry, we apply a second layer, but acrylic paint. We do not leave the product to dry on its own, take a hair dryer (preferably a hair dryer), and carefully gradually dry the surface. As a result, the layer will behave under the influence of temperature, and the paint will crack, like craquelure.

• Silver and varnish.

Decorating Craquelure with silver on a contrasting base and a layer of varnish

The cleaned sash is covered with a layer of varnish, which is left to dry for just half an hour. After which the canvas is dried with a construction hairdryer. Under the sharp influence of elevated temperature, the varnish cracks. The resulting cracks are rubbed with silver. After all, the canvas must be left until completely dry, and varnished again to consolidate the effect.

• 9% vinegar.

Any fresh paintwork will crack when exposed to 9% vinegar. Of course, the sash should be laid strictly horizontally, and generously watered with table vinegar.

These two products can also work on a fresh coat of paint in the Craquelure style. To do this, you will need soaked and brewed gelatin or egg white. The compositions are applied to the canvas with a wide brush. The layer of applied product must dry naturally. In order to consolidate the aging effect, the surface is coated with varnish.

Which color to choose as a base for a cracked surface is a purely personal matter and depends on the design of the home.

Chemical brushing

About brushing as one of the artificial methods aging of wood, we know from one of our previous publications.

Chemically structured wood

At the same time, it was previously considered mechanical method brushing. Now it’s time to get acquainted with chemical brushing, since today our time is devoted to chemical methods using exclusively paint and varnish compositions for aging solid wood.

The mechanical brushing method involves the use of physical force, or the purchase of a specialized machine. Our goal is to ultimately obtain a structured surface of aged solid wood. Solid pine is perfect for such purposes. So the chemical brushing method requires:

Acids for chemical brushing

• caustic alkali;
• acid;
• ammonia;
• protective mask for working with acids;
• special gloves, glasses and clothing;
• a work area remote from living quarters, with a good exhaust system.

The chemical brushing process itself is simple:

• the wood of the canvas can be cleaned and sanded;
• the horizontally laid sash is generously treated with caustic compounds;
• soft layers of wood soften under the influence of caustic acids, and therefore lend themselves well to processing with a coarse brush.

As you can see, the process is quite simple, but it also requires some physical effort, such as using a wire brush. But the very identification of a clear tree structure is much faster and more efficient.

Brushed wood using chemical compounds

The final finishing of the structure is made in the form paint and varnish coatings, which will emphasize the texture and protect the array from the negative effects of the environment.

Believable aging of wood: patination

Patination technology involves the use of several paint and varnish compositions different shades or even different colors.

Structured patination

Note that to reproduce the process with your own hands, aging wood in this way is not the easiest, rather the opposite. In the work you need to follow the rules and a certain sequence:

• Wooden doors are covered with a base layer of paint and varnish.

A spray bottle will help to evenly cover the surface of the door product. After all, it is almost impossible to eliminate drips and other unevenness in painting using a brush or roller. The first layer is left to dry naturally for several days.

• After a while, after the first layer of paint has dried, a second layer is applied, but of a different shade.

Fresh second coat on door for patination

For the second coating, it is not necessary to achieve even paint application. That is, you don’t have to use a spray bottle, but use a brush or roller for application. The second layer of the composition should be thin: you should not dip the brush deeply. The coating will subsequently be the basis for drawing stripes of the array structure.

• We get to work with rags.

One of the patination methods

You shouldn’t wait for the second one to dry completely. Using a dry rag, abrasions are made that will reveal the previous coating in a different color.

• Expertly created abrasions are covered with a protective layer of varnish.

The process of patination with your own hands, especially at home, is a creative process where you need to control virtually every stroke of paint. Otherwise, the interior will receive an overlap in the form of some kind of daub.

Stain, paint and patination method

Applying patina to the door leaf

If you are not confident in your own artistic actions, then the stages can be minimized by purchasing a special decorative paint– patina.

A special composition will make it easier to achieve the effect of an antique wooden surface.

Natural solid wood is beautiful in itself. Give more perfect and exclusive view interior doors that have served for many years can be installed using any of the methods presented above that you like.