The new is good ... when it cannot be seen!Sensitive to the charm of driftwood or abandoned huts, you are looking to coat your wooden constructions from a rustic skater.Several techniques exist to gray freshly cut boards or reproduce the wear of years or bad weather.Just find time and good materials.
How to simulate wear or make wood age?
The choice of method will depend on the desired effect.
For each of these methods, take a prior test on a small board.If the result is satisfactory, all you have to do is decorate your wooden furniture or object.
These ingredients are useful for darken wood.The first step will be to dissolve a piece of iron straw (previously rinsed) in a jar filled with white vinegar.
Wait between one to five days depending on the shade you want to get.The more we wait, the more color the color will darken.Meanwhile, sand the wooden board or object to be treated to remove old paint spots and varnish.
Boil black tea and brush it on the wood in order to give it a wet appearance.
Finally, apply the solution to vinegar with a brush.Only one layer should be enough to obtain the desired appearance.
After drying, remove any iron residues with a damp brush and apply wax to protect the wood.
A wood that has lived has scratches and shocks.How to imitate stigmata and wear of time?
Using an old sock filled with screws and nails, hit your wood.You can also use a hammer or mallet or rub it with large grain sandpaper.
To simulate verse holes, push up small nails, ensuring that none is alike by playing for example on the size or angle of the nail.
The soda bicarbonate with itself, helps to mitigate the dark wood tannin such as cedar, pine, sequoia or mahogany.It leaves a stripper and bleached of driftwood.
Preferably choose untreated wood.If it is varnished, strip it and sand it.Set in full sun.
Carefully prepare the support © Halfpoint
Then prepare the solution.The quantity will depend on the size of your project but the proportion to be observed is:
Apply the solution to the brush and leave to act for 6 hours in the sun.
If you can't wait you can still spray the surface of the wood with vinegar and leave for ten minutes.Brush with a metal brush and rinse with water.
Do not hesitate to repeat the operation if the wood remains too dark to your taste. To finish, apply a wooden stain and possibly wax to protect it.
Nothing like it to give an aged wood effect that the cracked painting.And no need to wait for an eternity for that!
A rather successful aged effect © Mostone
Here is the method:
This is the new darling of decorative magazines: the Shou-Sugi-Ban, also called Yaki-Sugi, ancestral Japanese technique, consists in burning a single side of cladding boards (used for the facade of a construction or an interior).The process protects the house both from bad weather, insects, UVs and ... delays fires.
Several techniques exist.The most traditional is to link three triangle -shaped cedar boards before setting fire inside, as:
Another recommends sleeping the boards on a embers or burning them for a few minutes in the torch, as in the video below:
The combustion time will depend on the desired effect.Some will opt for a simple aspect blackened another for a charred effect.
In any case, the coal residues will have to be removed with a brush before applying a coating or wax.
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