The use of furniture stickers for decoration and masking defects
You can decorate the interior in many ways. The stores offer a large selection of diverse tools that will transform any room. Furniture stickers are one such decoration technique. They are different and suitable for decorating furnishings in any room.
Varieties
Fashion for the use of furniture stickers came to our country from Europe. People have long come up with this way of decorating cabinets, chests of drawers, cabinets. The advantages of this decor include the fact that they are relatively inexpensive. Thus, you can transform a room in minutes without spending a lot of money. If the decorative elements have lost their original appearance, they are damaged or simply tired, they can be easily replaced with new ones. In addition, stickers are applied very simply, they are suitable for decorating mirror, plastic, metal surfaces and other materials.
Decorative elements are different. They differ in size, design, material of manufacture. You can decorate furniture with many small stickers, and decorating one large one sometimes looks no less advantageous. The compositions composed of several elements look original.
Depending on the color scheme, the stickers are:
- Colored;
- Black and white.
Colored, in turn, can be single-color, two-color, multi-color. Everyone will find the most suitable option for their home. Not a single piece of furniture will be left unadorned. Another distinctive feature of the stickers is that some of them are full-color, the second are transparent. Full-color decorative stickers cover the entire surface. A variety of elements for decorating furniture that glow in the dark look original.
In addition to color, stickers differ in theme and type of outer layer. Depending on the type of front surface, they can be mirror, glossy, matte. The stickers themselves are decorated with different elements: rhinestones, sparkles, beads. The texture of the stickers are flat and voluminous.
Black and whiteColoredDecorative elements are made of different materials:
- Vinyl;
- Cardboard;
- Plastic;
- Metal.
CardboardVinylPlasticMetalThe most common are vinyl furniture stickers. They decorate furniture in the bedroom, nursery, kitchen, living room, bathroom. Easy to apply and also easy to remove.
Use in decor
Stickers can decorate furnishings in different rooms. They will look equally beautiful in the living room, bedroom, kitchen, dining room and bathroom. Especially happy with such decorations are small children. Decorative elements are glued not only to furniture, but also to walls.
Children’s
With the help of stickers you can easily design a nursery. Many parents try to make it clear that this is a children's room. They are trying to pick up a wallpaper with a suitable pattern: bears, trains, and other similar images. However, there is a more effective way - to decorate furniture with stickers. The advantage of this method is that it does not require large financial costs. In addition, children grow quickly, and parents do not have to often make repairs and re-glue wallpapers. It is enough to change the stickers for more suitable age.
When decorating with stickers for children's furniture, you can save on the products themselves. So you can choose simple furniture, without additional design, and decorate it with beautiful stickers. In this case, the stickers will be selected according to the individual preferences of the children and parents.
Stickers are glued to different items of children's furniture:
- Beds;
- Cabinets;
- Bedside tables;
- Desks;
- Boxes for toys.
It’s a great idea to stick a stadiometer sticker on your furniture or wall. He will not only decorate the room, but also allow you to follow the development of the baby. Children like images glowing in the dark. You can stick stars and the moon directly on the ceiling, walls or closet.
It is better to call the children and invite them to stick stickers together. After all, this is their room, it must meet all their requirements and desires. Decorating furniture together will be fun and interesting.
Living room
You can decorate the living room according to your taste with the help of stickers. Floral and abstract themes are the most common for decoration of furniture in the hall. A variety of stickers allows you to choose the right model and transform a boring room. Mirror stickers look beautiful. They can be decoration both on the cupboard, other furniture, and on the walls. Elements are easily attached to any type of wallpaper.
Often owners of apartments, houses stick a sticker on the mirror cabinets. You can add a highlight to the room with the help of decorative elements decorated with rhinestones, sparkles. They emphasize the originality and unusual design of the living room. Also, with the help of stickers, you can refresh the TV cabinets or stick a stylish composition around the equipment directly on the wall. Often for these purposes, large images of trees, flowers, leaves are used. A great way to decorate would be a photo sticker. It can depict all family members together or separately.
In some cases, removing stickers from the smooth surface of the furniture is quite problematic. Then experts recommend heating them with a hairdryer. The adhesive layer is destroyed, the sticker is easily removed. The remaining glue can be cleaned with a soap solution.
Kitchen and bathroom
With the help of stickers on the furniture decorate home decoration in the bathroom, kitchen. The material of the stickers allows you to use them in rooms with high humidity. You can decorate cabinets, tables, facades of the kitchen. The original will look like glued household appliances such as a refrigerator or microwave. Many glue various images on a kitchen apron. The most popular pictures are tea, coffee, dishes, fruits, vegetables, various dishes.
In the bathroom, stickers adorn the facades of lockers. Can also be glued on tiles, panels, mirrors. Widespread are marine motifs with images of fish and algae. Stickers can be washed, so they are so popular in the interior of the bathroom and kitchen. Creating a unique design is not so difficult. Stickers will help you achieve this. They can be easily replaced with others, when once again you want to change the interior. Any even the simplest furniture will get a bright accent, if you add spectacular, stylish art images.
Popular topics
The subjects of furniture stickers are presented in a huge assortment. The most popular among them:
- Animals - vinyl stickers are suitable for any room. Various elephants, bears, cats, butterflies will decorate the nursery. For the living room, dogs and tigers are often used. Kitchen sets will be transformed by stickers with lambs or cats;
- Plants - flowers, trees and branches with leaves are very popular;
- Abstraction - a variety of geometric compositions are not inferior in popularity to the previous types of stickers. Circles, hearts, stripes, curly patterns adorn wardrobes, chests of drawers, walls, and also look beautiful on mirror surfaces;
- Marine - shells, fish, algae, anchors, helms, dolphins and sharks - this is just a small list of images used to decorate interior items in the bathroom, kitchen, children's room and bedroom;
- Holidays - various pictures related to this or that celebration can be displayed on stickers. For example, New Year’s snowflakes, Christmas trees, or hearts, pigeons, inscriptions, declarations of love;
- Nurseries - a huge number of different stickers are used to decorate children's furniture. These are bears, giraffes, cars, dolls, stars and planets, letters and numbers, stadiometers. Colorful stickers with images of cartoon characters will appeal to every child.
Defect masking
During the operation of furniture, various defects, such as chips or scratches, may appear on its surfaces. They are especially relevant for a children's room, as well as in a room where there are animals. Cats and dogs can scratch furniture, spoil wallpaper. In such cases, the most effective and at the same time fast way to mask flaws are stickers. In addition, there is the opportunity to make them yourself to your taste.
Ready-made stickers are suitable for masking scuffs, scratches and minor dents. They stick together very simply, in an instant refresh and transform furniture. Defects on tiles, household appliances, wallpaper, you can easily hide under the stickers. They will not only mask flaws, but will make the room interesting and original, none of the guests will remain indifferent. Defects on mirror surfaces can also be hidden under unusual compositions.
Please note that the stickers do not adhere well to walls painted with water-based paint and on surfaces with chalky whitewash. If you stick stickers on paper wallpapers, their subsequent removal can damage the canvas. The same result can be obtained with old plaster and paint.