Creation of furniture and cabin decoration

If you’ve been looking for some cabin-style decorating tips (even if you don’t own a log cabin), here are some ways to revamp, redecorate, or replenish and transform existing furniture in your home for cabin furniture.

Any wood or painted surface currently in the room can be given a paint finish to give it a rustic feel. Dining chairs, kitchen cabinets, dining or auxiliary tables and even cabin floor.

Cabin décor dining or island chairs are a quick and easy project for any homeowner. All materials can be purchased online or at your local hardware store and the time investment is minimal. The secret to cabin decorating is to understand the process of antiquing the furniture.

Start with a light sanding to remove the shine from the surface or treatment of your furniture. Clean with a slightly damp cloth. If the surface you’re working with isn’t real wood, you’ll want to prime the surface with primer. If the furniture is real wood, you won’t have to worry about priming the surface. Let the surface dry completely.

To achieve the look of rough, rustic cabin decor, dry brush the primer with a wide brush to add grain and texture to your cabin furniture. Let the primer dry completely.

For the next steps, you may want to try a few different paint swatches and treatments. My personal favorite is to take a dark color complementary to your existing cabin decor as a base layer. You will then add a top coat of paint or stain to rub the surface.

Achieving and owning cabin décor is, after all, a fun and rewarding process. Doing it yourself by making your own cabin furniture on the cheap is something to be proud of.

Start your first tests with a rich, dark brown color as the base. This is the easiest and truest way to achieve the rustic cabin look. Remember that this primer is not the actual color you want your furniture to finish with, but rather the color you will see ‘peeping through’. The top coat, the next step, will be your finishing color. Any traditional color—dark or muted, red, green, or mustard—works well for a rustic cabin look, you can also try a lighter shade for a bolder effect or a more European cabin theme.

There is one more step in the process, weathering, which will also change the color and tint of the top coat of paint. With the base coat and top coat dry-brushed onto the surface of the future cabin furniture, allow the piece to dry completely. Using a piece of fine sandpaper, take a look at the piece you’re working on (whether it’s a chair, picture frame, or kitchen cabinets) and determine where normal wear and tear would have occurred over the years. . Lightly sand these areas, faking a timeworn patina.

To take on that aged (antique) patina, process it one step further, rub on a mixture of dark pine wood stain and painter’s glaze (used in faux paint effects). You can layer this stain, leaving it darker in the nooks and corners of your cabin furniture, repeatedly until you achieve the look you’re after.

These techniques work on real wood just as easily as they do on cheap, fake wood furniture. If you are creating booth furniture with chairs, leave dark areas on the seat bases, wear down the bottoms of the legs or the tops of the armrests. If you’re going for a cottage look in your kitchen, sandpaper the area around your cabinet knobs, handles, and pulls. You can also replace boring existing hardware with more rustic or vintage knobs and pulls.

Once you’ve had success with smaller pieces of furniture, move on to larger projects to create your cabin décor.