Tidbits on refurnishing dinning room sets–Part 2
If you are not that much into creating a style with the assistance of stencils and you prefer to attack with a more abstract approach, you can create the lines in the base of the table with simple plastic bags wrinkled in your hand. Tap them to the base of the table immediately afterwards you have sprayed painted it; this will give you lines and according to the strength in which you tap the paint you can lift it to reveal the white underneath if you are painting a light color in or the aluminum foil/color if you are using a darker one.
If you are not satisfied just by painting again the dinning set, you can add and change anything you want at this point. For example, using bits and pieces of fallen branches glued to the furniture after it has been painted in black and brown, can help you make a statement if the rest of the house/apartment has rustic or early American furniture.
If you are bolder and want each one of your rooms to have a unique air and flavor, then you can take this opportunity to create something unique, like using pasta and the shapes it comes in to adorn the legs and the under part of the table. Of course, and just as with any of the movements and changes that you might be doing in your second hand furniture, you need to consider how long will you be “forced” to have them before you can change it for something new.
That is, make a decision and create your own style, but proceed with caution. Using buttons and pasta figures can seem something very interesting and it can indeed, but looking everyday to them glued and having to clean them might not be as romantic and enticing as you might seem at first glance.
If you are not sure what to do or what “style” to adapt or adjust to, then a good idea is to keep it simple, choose a color, one of your favorite colors and use that. Mat colors can work but they will not look as trendy and hip as metallic colors. However, avoid using orange, red and black.
Color choosing can influence your psyche. Orange color and the range of oranges are used to entice people to eat; red is generally a color and a tone range that will cause you to have a lot more gut-passions (anger, love, fear) with less logic and mind use or control and black is dirty, it is a color that is hard to keep clean.
private loan @ October 18, 2008