How to decorate a piece of furniture with the stencil

Do you have old furniture that you want to renovate? Let’s discover some easy-to-follow inspirations to transform any piece of furniture using stencils.

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Have you been tired of old furniture? Have you recovered some antique dressers or some slightly dated chairs? With the technique of the stencil it will be quick and easy to give all your supplies a new life.
This is a very common methodology used to simplify the decoration of a surface.

A few steps and very few tools are required to carry out this painting technique.

Let’s find out how to do it together.

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What do you need to decorate with the stencil?

To create magnificent effects on our furniture, or even on the walls, we can decide to buy some plasticized sheet masks. Masks can be found on the market stencils in infinite sizes and patterns.

Alternatively, we can create our personal stencil by copying the design we prefer on a sheet of acetate paper, available in all stores of hobby, and cutting out the inside of the design with a utility knife. In this way we will define the “negative” design of what we want to achieve.

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You can decide to transfer an image or letters to your stencil. Creating a stencil requires a little patience and a lot of precision and if it turns out to be a long job for some drawing types, all DIY stores have a wide range of stencils.

It is possible to easily find the stencil also online.

Once the design for the restyling of our furniture has been established, let’s see what it takes to proceed.

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Necessary

stencil
round tip foam pad / brush
acrylic color
masking tape

Method

The first step will be to prepare there base of your mobile, carrying out surface cleaning. If you want to apply the stencil on the original color of the furniture you can proceed directly, otherwise you can pass a coat of color to create a nice base.
Now we need to identify the point where we want to make the design with the stencil, taking into account that it will help us to pre-establish one scheme to follow. The scheme will help us to proceed quickly and not run the risk of tripping over some mistakes.
Have we established our pattern? Let’s proceed with the fix to the cabinet la mask stencil with adhesive paper tape, making sure it is very stable and firm. Scotch tape is the ideal choice because it will be easy to remove once the job is done.
With the brush from round tip, the sponge pad or a small roller, we are going to dab with the color inside the holes of the mask. If you decide to create shades or overlays of color, wait for the color to dry between passes.
You can also use the spray color, to begin to familiarize yourself with the stencil technique.
You can choose to reproduce drawings but also writings on your furniture, using the stencil with letters.

You can also use this technique to make other interesting decorations.

Try to be very careful when removing the stencil from the cabinet, waiting well for the paint to dry and making slow and delicate movements. This way you will avoid smudging.

Ideas for decorating a piece of furniture with the stencil

There is no surface that cannot be stenciled. Walls, tables, chairs, sideboards and even cushions and curtains. By choosing the right color for the surface, you can indulge yourself in creating your own imaginative compositions on whatever inspires you.

The main trend of recent years is to reproduce patterns on the furniture, images that recur, in Arabic style.

decorate-with-the-stencil 2 The so-called arabesque stencil, delicate friezes that are reproduced on the entire structure, even better if with the bright colors, typical of the East of the World. References to India, the desert and the thousand and one nights, these are the designs that can give a second life to your furniture.

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Another very nice trend is that of writing on the piece of furniture. A sentence, a line from a poem or a song, the names of your children to fix the furniture of their bedroom. Just choose a stencil that reproduces the lettering and proceed with your work.

Decorate a piece of furniture with the stencil using old lace

There is a very fun and particular way to decorate a piece of furniture with the stencil.

This method involves use of old lace or openwork fabrics to be used instead of stencil templates.

decorate-with-the-stencil 6 This method will give your furniture a romantic and fairytale look. Using light and delicate colors you will create a piece of furniture in perfect style shabby-chic. A typical design of Provencal atmospheres. The colors to match are tone on tone: white and bejge, or white and sand color. By doing this you will get an elegant piece of furniture that will adapt to any space in your home, having used neutral colors.

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Want to get a more cheerful effect? In this case you just need to combine two colors in apparent contrast to each other. For example you can match the yellow tolight blue, or teal and pink. Combining bright and different colors creates a beautiful visual effect, with many references to Pop art.

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Another topic of the moment is thetropical inspiration. There are 2 colors that will be combined with each other: blue and green, in all their nuances. Leaves of all sizes and shapes and thewow effect is insured.

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There are no limits to the imagination. With the stencil you can create infinite compositions. You can decide to create a repeating design on the piece of furniture, to do just a few details. You can also decide to decorate the inside of the furniture or drawers. We recommend that you get inspired by the environment around you and experiment. Have a good job and have fun.

Decorating a piece of furniture with the stencil: image gallery

And by browsing the gallery you can have other interesting and creative proposals to create fantastic decorations with the stencil.