How to age a picture frame at home. Painting and decorative finishing of picture frames

Offers ideas for those who are constantly looking for original projects to creatively recycle things lying around into something new. Today these are old frames for paintings and photographs. The unconventional use of such frames is amazing! These are organizers, hangers, key holders, flowerpots, panels, chessboards and even furniture.

But, before you start implementing your idea, you need to transform the old picture frames. Think about your future idea, choose a color and style, select tools and materials, and decide on a technique. If the frame is wooden, then be sure to remove any remaining paint, burrs, or unevenness. Plastic frames just need to be washed and degreased. Sometimes it is enough to paint the frame with acrylic paint, but more often it turns into an interesting creative process: aging the surface, decoupage, mosaic, painting, applique, inlay and more.

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To decorate book shelves, glue finished frames to the shelf. Such decor will look very impressive on furniture if you glue them around the entire perimeter.

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Choose beautiful handkerchiefs, scraps of fabric or embroidered (knitted) motifs and decorate them with frames and glass. Depending on the selected images, such a composition will be appropriate in both the living room and the kitchen.

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An original shelf for cups, spices, tea or coffee. You can also place collectible cups or other items in this style.

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The tray is beautiful, simple and accessible even to a person who has never been involved in creativity and handicrafts. Don't forget to place a picture on the topic under the glass. It can be changed depending on the holiday.

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The coffee table top is an old picture frame. For the legs, buy wooden balusters for stairs (sold in hardware stores). Under glass - all your imagination.

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Old picture frames are also popular as wall decor. They can be used either one color or multi-colored.

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This composition with paper flowers also looks great as wall decor. But here you need to think about where such decor is appropriate. Or it will be a narrow hallway, a cottage, or a holiday decoration.

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In this example, the frame is used as a towel rack in the bathroom.

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Miniature key holder. The frame is aged. There are hooks at the top for placing keys. A very convenient thing.

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Classic - a TV in a good frame. Everything here should correspond to the chosen style.

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A desktop organizer consisting of a frame and strips of thick fabric. Here you can place pens and pencils, note paper and photographs, greetings to your loved one and wishes to the children.

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Decorate the panels using old picture frames. Glue wallpaper, newspapers, or make drawings inside the frame using a stencil.

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Set up a chessboard. Hang it on the wall. This will be a favorite place not only for children, but also for adults.

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Another organizer. Cover the cardboard with fabric and sew on pockets from old denim trousers. And you will get several pockets for pencils, scissors, knitting needles, hooks, rulers and other necessary handicraft tools. And also make a cosmetics organizer.

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Create a cozy place for your shoes. This design is easy to move to any place. And most importantly, it does not take up much space.

Watch, learn, fantasize and create your own masterpieces and give new life to old things. Good luck everyone!

If you bought a ready-made unpainted baguette for a picture, then you can paint it yourself, using paint of the shade that suits you, as well as bronze and silver. You can use bronze powder; in this case, first coat the baguette with alkyd-based varnish or paint of a suitable color, and then apply bronze powder to the sticky varnish. This coating allows you to create a spectacular, golden or bronze appearance of the picture frame, but it is short-lived, so you additionally need to cover the powder with a layer of varnish.

Bronze paint, which is sold ready-made, is often used to paint picture frames. It can also be prepared from bronze powder and drying oil or varnish.

Achieve the effect of aged bronze You can if you first paint the baguette a dark color with matte paint. Next, the bronze paint needs to be sprayed using sliding movements over the surface. All the protrusions on the baguette will be golden, but the depressions will remain dark. This way we will get the effect of an old frame from which the gilding has peeled off.

Modern paints and technologies make it possible to imitate the texture of wood. To do this, you need to cover the baguette with white paint (a layer of primer), then dilute the coloring pigment in the varnish to the intensity that you require. Apply the resulting paint using a brush with stiff bristles, which will scratch the paint layer and the white base will be visible. To apply paint in this way, you need certain skills, since the pattern of the wood will depend on how the brush lies in your hand and what movements you apply the paint. With the right level of skill, you can independently create drawings of different wood textures.

There is another original way painting: cover the baguette with foil. To begin with, the picture frame needs to be coated with varnish or glue, while this layer is sticky, apply foil or gold leaf, press with a sponge so that it clearly follows the relief of the baguette. The resulting metal surface can be tinted using translucent paint. If you choose white foil, you can give it a warm tint by using grated lead from colored pencils. The slate powder should be rubbed in with a hard brush or a rag.

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Painting a picture frame is a rather unusual, but interesting process. In this article I will share some tricks and secrets. We will talk about finishing a self-made baguette or finishing an old one (read about how to make a baguette for a frame with your own hands).

Decorative finishing of the baguette can be done by painting or covering the profile with foil.

To paint the baguette, you can use bronze or silver paint. If you treat it not with ready-made paint, but with bronze powder, then you can do this: first paint the baguette with alkyd varnish or paint of the desired color, and then (while the layer is sticky) spray bronze powder. The bronze particles will evenly settle on the baguette and “stick” to the sticky layer of varnish. This method will give the baguette a spectacular golden look. However, such a paint layer is short-lived. Even when touched with your fingers, the “goldenness” fades. Therefore, it would be safer to additionally coat the dried layer of bronze paint with varnish. But in this case, the varnish will reduce the “golden effect”.

In addition to applying bronze powder, the baguette can be painted directly with ready-made bronze paint. You can make this paint yourself from bronze powder. To do this, you can mix bronze powder either in alkyd varnish, or drying oil, or even in ordinary sunflower oil. If it is varnish, then it needs to be slightly diluted with a solvent. The thinner the varnish, the greater the “goldenness” of the paint, but in this case its strength will be less.

In addition to regular painting, you can create the effect of old bronze. To do this, the baguette is first painted in a dark color: black-brown, brown-green, etc. The paint should be matte. Next, bronze paint is sprayed from a spray can as if “gliding” over the surface. All the “tubercles” of the protruding elements of the relief ornament will be golden, and the indentations will be dark. As a result, we get the effect of old, polished metal.

To imitate valuable types of wood, the baguette is first primed or painted with white, matte paint. Then, the coloring pigment of the desired color is diluted in the varnish (the paint should be translucent). As a rule, it is dark brown with some tint. Next, this paint is applied with a hard bristle brush (even an old and poorly washed one). Coarse hair seems to “scratch” the dark, translucent layer of paint, through which the white base of the baguette will unevenly shine through. The pattern of the wood texture will depend on how you hold and direct the brush. In this way, a wide variety of designs can be conveyed.

When covering a baguette with foil, it is first treated with glue or varnish. While the varnish is sticky, apply the foil to the baguette and press it with a sponge so that it follows the surface relief and fits tightly to the baguette. After gluing the foil, the metal surface can be tinted with translucent paint. If the foil is not golden, but white (aluminum), then it can be given a warm shade of bronze by tinting it with grated lead of colored pencils. The lead is ground to a powder and then rubbed in with a hard brush or rag.

In addition to the methods described above for decorating a baguette yourself, you can come up with a lot of others. By experimenting and improvising, each artist can come up with his own techniques and achieve interesting results in this creative process.

The process of painting a picture frame is quite a creative and unusual activity. Using some techniques and secrets will help you update your baguette. You can decorate either a self-made frame or give a second life to an old product. In this article we will look at options on how to paint a picture frame with your own hands.

How to paint a photo frame for a picture?

If you purchased a new picture frame that is not painted, then you can transform it with your own hands. How to paint or restore a frame? To paint the product, use paint of a suitable shade, as well as bronze or silver.

Bronze powder

If bronze powder is used, then the following actions must be performed:

1. The baguette is covered with alkyd varnish or paint of the desired tone.
2. After this, bronze powder is applied to the sticky varnish.

Important! This procedure creates a spectacular appearance with a golden or bronze tint. But such a picture frame is not durable. Even the touch of your fingers causes the “goldenness” to fade. Therefore, it is necessary to apply an additional procedure in which the powder is covered with a layer of varnish. Repeated varnishing reduces the “golden effect”.

Bronze paint

To paint picture frames, use bronze paint, which can be purchased ready-made at hardware stores. In addition, you can prepare such paint yourself from bronze powder. To do this, mix bronze powder in alkyd varnish and drying oil. Even ordinary sunflower oil is suitable for this procedure.

Important! If you use varnish, it must be diluted with a solvent. The more diluted the varnish, the greater the “goldenness” of the paint. In this case, the coated surface of the frame is not strong enough.

Aged bronze

How to age a frame? A picture frame reminiscent of aged bronze looks very stylish and beautiful. This effect can be achieved by performing several sequential actions.

How to paint a DIY antiqued bronze picture frame:

• First, the frame is given a dark shade, using a black-brown tint, brown-green tone and other color schemes.

Important! The paint used must have a matte finish.

• After this we spray bronze paint from a can over the surface of the frame using sliding movements.

Important! As a result of this procedure, all protruding parts on the surface of the frame will be golden, and the depressions will remain dark in color. In this way, the effect of an old product from which the gilding has peeled off is created.

Wood imitation

Modern technological processes make it possible to create an imitation of valuable wood texture on the surface of the frame. In this case, you need to do the following:

1. The baguette is coated with a primer or treated with matte white paint.
2. Then the coloring pigment is diluted in the varnish to the desired color range. Mostly dark brown color with some shade is used. The composition of the prepared paint should have a translucent consistency.
3. Apply this paint to the surface of the frame with a brush with stiff bristles. Such a brush scratches the layer of applied paint and the white base is unevenly visible under it.

Important! To apply paint using this method, certain skills are required. The imitation of wood texture will depend on how the brush is positioned in the hand and what movements are used during application. A high level of skill allows you to independently come up with patterns of various wood textures.

Foil covering

There is another original painting method. To do this, the picture frame is covered with foil. How to decorate a picture frame with foil yourself:

1. Before this, the baguette is treated with glue or varnish.
2. While the coating dries, apply foil or gold leaf to it and press it with a sponge. The glued foil follows the relief of the frame and fits tightly to the baguette.
3. The resulting metal surface must be tinted with translucent paint.

Important! When using white aluminum foil rather than gold foil, a warm bronze tone is created by using grated lead from colored pencils. The lead must be ground to a powder state. This composition is rubbed into the metal surface of the frame with a brush with a hard base or a rag.

To decorate a baguette yourself, you need a broad imagination, creative thinking and versatile creativity. By experimenting and improvising, you can come up with new techniques, methods, and achieve interesting compositions in such a creative process.

How to age a picture frame?

The appearance of the items in the living room depends on the style of the interior. Thus, an interior in the style of Provence, Vintage and Shabby Chic involves decorating existing pieces of furniture in an antique style. The antique look is created by the furniture set, complemented by aged chairs, tables and chests of drawers.

Flower pots, photo frames, all kinds of vases, wall clocks, and mirror frames are decorated in this style. It is not at all necessary to purchase such things at the markets, since the objects in the apartment can be transformed beyond recognition on your own.

Let's look at how to paint a wooden antique-style picture frame with acrylic paint yourself.

For this we need:

• ordinary wooden frame;
• brown acrylic paint, which we use as a base;
• white acrylic paint;
• acrylic craquelure varnish;
• brush.

The first stage is painting the frame with paint, which serves as the base

Basic paint is used for pronounced cracks. Therefore, the base paint and the paint that imitates a cracked surface are selected in contrasting colors. If we use a brown tone for the main color, then it will appear in the place of the cracks.

Important! We stock up on old newspapers so as not to stain the surface on which we will work. We place a picture frame on the newspapers.

Let's start painting the frame with acrylic paint. Cover with brown color in one layer. A single layer coating is quite sufficient, since the paint has a dense composition. If somewhere the layer is not quite thick, then the second coating will be crater varnish and white paint, which will safely cover any defects of the main brown background. Our frame should dry for about two hours. Products treated with acrylic paint dry very quickly.

The second stage is processing the picture frame with crater varnish

We treat the picture frame with varnish. The thickness of the layer determines what kind of cracks there will be:

• If the applied layer is thin, the cracks will look small.
• With a thick layer of varnish, the cracks will have clearly defined outlines.

After painting, leave the frame to dry for at least 2 hours.

Important! Crater varnish is a coating that creates cracks. It is not the varnish that cracks, but the paint applied on top of it. The crater component resembles an ordinary varnish.

The third stage is painting the baguette with white acrylic paint

Quickly paint the frame with white acrylic paint. As a result, cracks appear literally before our eyes. The paint should dry for about 2 hours. When the product dries, the cracks become clearly defined and the desired texture of the product is visible.

Important! It is very important to paint the frame over the entire surface, without lifting your hand, in one stroke. You can first practice processing any other material. If you pass the brush twice over the same place, the pattern of the crack is disrupted.

With the first layer it has already appeared, and if you go through it a second time, the next layer of paint will not crack. In addition, the secondary passage literally blurs the drawing.

How to paint a frame to suit a specific interior style?

Stylishly designed frames can emphasize the interior design, so you need to choose the color scheme of the baguette, depending on the style of the room. How to paint a picture frame with your own hands, depending on the style of the interior:

• Wall decorations made from carved frames in dark gold or dark bronze tones complement fashionable glamorous interiors and are suitable for a classic option.
• Vintage style is characterized by a composition that may contain aged frames, a candlestick and various accessories such as a mirror on a stand, figurines, boxes, and antique perfume bottles.
• Pretentious frames painted in white, black and silver highlight the modern interior in the Fusion style.
• In a minimalist interior, standard square frames in white or any color that contrasts with the walls look great.

Frame style depending on the genre of the painting

The frame is the “clothing” for the painting. The design of the baguette should not cover the composition of the canvas. But there are exceptions, mainly for small-sized paintings. The ideal option is to match the texture of the baguette and the style of the painting:

• The texture of the frame can even repeat the characteristic strokes of paint or ornament used in the painting.
• If the subject of the painting is simple, the frame should be in a simple style. And vice versa - the deep storyline of the picture should be formalized by an interesting design solution of the baguette.
• Modern abstraction will not look beautiful in a lush gilded frame design. Therefore, for the simple, the simple serves, and the complex corresponds to the complex.

Important! A strict aluminum picture frame cannot reveal the airiness of the watercolor painting. But it will perfectly highlight a contrasting black and white photograph. And elegant picture frames made of light-colored carved wood are ideally combined with a delicate watercolor pattern.

• A very beautiful and modern technique for painting a baguette. In this case, the image of the painting is continued in a frame into which it smoothly “flows.”
• Also very impressive is the way of decorating a picture using two or more composite profiles of different thicknesses. In this case, it is important that the composite profile consists of frames of different widths. The inner baguette, located near the painting, plays the role of a passe-partout, placing emphasis on the painting itself, but at the same time emphasizing the beautiful design of the “external” frame.

Baguette color

If you are planning to paint a picture frame with your own hands, the color scheme also plays a big role. The color of the picture frame should be complementary and, accordingly, set off the picture image. In addition, the color scheme of the baguette implies a tone difference from the main color, either darker or lighter.

Important! It is necessary to take into account such a nuance that for paintings in cold colors a frame of a cold color is used, and vice versa - for a warm image a light-colored frame is suitable. However, there is an exception in which natural wood is combined with any shades.

Baguette width:

• The larger the picture, the wider the image baguette should be. This correspondence favorably emphasizes the significance of the picture. Such compositions are placed at the central point of the interior and become accent elements.
• Small paintings are decorated with wide frames. At the same time, compliance is maintained when the total area of ​​the baguette is larger than the area of ​​the image. This option looks very impressive. But you need to take into account that such a design requires a stylistic approach for other images in the room.
• When choosing frames for small images, thin baguettes are often used. This choice looks stylish and modern, especially suitable for a whole group of paintings.

How to decorate a frame?

When decorating paintings, anything can be used as a material: wine corks, various cereals, fabric, old files of glossy magazines, all kinds of shells. Let's consider the most interesting options for decorating a frame at home.

Wine corks

This method of decorating a baguette is a modern hand-made art. To design such a frame, you need to take care of the base for the baguette:

1. Wine corks should be cut into thin slices.
2. Using acrylic paints, add the appropriate color. The result is a kind of cork buttons.
3. Now you need to turn on creativity and creative imagination to carry out the decoration. You need to glue cork buttons of various colors onto the main part of the picture frame.

Important! The frame can be designed in a multi-colored design, made in two colors or in a single color. In this case, taste, personal preferences and interior style play a role.

Groats

There is a very interesting option for decorating picture frames that are intended to be placed in the kitchen. How to decorate a picture frame with grains with your own hands:

1. We treat the base of the frame with PVA glue.
2. After this, generously sprinkle the surface of the baguette with the selected cereals. All kinds of cereals can be used. Barley, buckwheat, rice, and wheat are mainly used for decoration.

Important! The frame will look much neater if the base of the baguette is pre-treated with paint that matches the color of the selected grain.

Old magazines

Even from old glossy magazines you can design picture frames that create an amazingly beautiful interior:

1. Cut old glossy magazines into thin strips of equal size.
2. From the cut strips you need to wind tight tubes and fix them with glue.
3. You need to paste these tubes over the base of the picture frame, and the unusual design is ready.

Natural materials

For the decoration process, you can use natural materials:

• Small branches of shrubs can be used to decorate outdated picture frames.
• Large branches are suitable for unusual and creative design of a baguette.

Decoupage technique

You can also paste over the base of the picture frame with interesting fragments from old magazines and comics. To decorate the frame with your own hands, you can use special paper, which is characterized by a variety of storylines.

Textile

For true needlewomen, framing a frame becomes a real art, so beautiful fabric is also used. How to decorate a picture frame with fabric yourself:

1. We make the base of the baguette on a thick sheet of cardboard.
2. Cut it out along the contour lines.
3. Then you need to drape the surface of the frame with a beautiful fabric.

Important! There is an option for making a soft frame. To do this, use cotton wool or padding polyester, which is used to fill the baguette for the picture.

In this article, we offered you a lot of interesting ideas on how to paint a picture frame and then decorate the baguette. Choose those that appeal to you the most and which you have mastered in your practical decorating skills, then the result will certainly impress you!

If you have frames made of untreated wood or simply boring ones that have lost their attractiveness, then you can completely transform them by “dressing” them in black, shading them with elegant gilding. All you need is paints and brushes, simple equipment and a little time. And you will give the most ordinary frames a noble “antique” look. And then all that remains is to place paintings or photographs in such luxurious frames and decorate your interior of your home.

You will need:

• Old or new wooden frames;
• acrylic paints (black, bright gold, pale gold);
• soluble shiny varnish for finishing;
• latex gloves;
• small and medium-sized flat brushes;
• round brush for painting;
• medium grit sandpaper;
• Toothbrush.

Operating procedure:

You can choose one of the methods listed here or a combination of them. When the frame is finished, be sure to apply a coat of glitter varnish to it!

Finishing with sandpaper

Paint the frame gold by mixing bright and pale gold paints. Apply a coat of black paint. Leave to dry. Then sand the frame in places with sandpaper so that the golden background appears slightly. Using a paint brush dipped in gold paint, decorate the frame with your own design. On flat or smooth frames, draw a light border or make a simple pattern along the edge of the frame.

Finishing with a dry brush

Paint the frame black and leave to dry. Dry your flat brush thoroughly and dip it into a large amount of gold paint. First, run the brush over a clean piece of fabric, and then over the frame, so that visible traces of paint remain. Apply a pattern to the frame with gold paint.

Finishing with a toothbrush

Paint the frame golden and leave to dry. Heavily dilute the black paint with water in a saucer. Place a toothbrush in the saucer and, wearing rubber gloves, spray paint onto the frame without tilting your face close. Decorate the frame with black paint to suit your taste.