Put stickers on the table and chair

What you need:

• Sandpaper coarse and fine
• Hard wood base
• White or ivory acrylic paint
• Tinting paint, e.g. B. Light Blue
• paint brush
• Napkins with a motif
• Napkin glue
• possibly. Textile napkin glue for chair upholstery
• Sponge
• scissors
• Clear coat

The design of the motif when embellishing the chair and table is ultimately up to your imagination, the basics are there Napkin technique but to know.

Basic instructions for serviette technique on table and seating furniture

1. Sand the table and the chair with coarse emery paper. Then go over it again with the finer sandpaper. Then dust the furniture thoroughly and prime it with hard wood primer.
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2. After drying, paint over it with acrylic varnish. In any case, it should be a light acrylic varnish, so that the pattern of the napkin comes into its own, white, beige or ivory is recommended. You can also bring beautiful effects to the table and chair if you mix the remaining acrylic varnish with tinting paint.
3. Put on disposable gloves and dip a small sponge into the now tinted acrylic varnish. Rub the sponge lightly over the dried-on table or chair or dab the paint on. You can also test which effect you prefer on a piece of cardboard. Now let everything dry thoroughly.
4. While the table and chair are drying, choose the napkins you want and think about how the motifs should be arranged. Would you like to B. Using figure motifs from the napkin, cut them out carefully. For pattern motifs, the napkin is plucked into large pieces. Now carefully lift off the first layer of the napkin, throwing away the colorless layers.


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5. If your chair is an upholstered chair, you must first cover the seat with a new, light-colored fabric. To do this, carefully remove the seat, stretch the new cloth over it and staple it to the wooden frame on the back of the cushion. To decorate the seat with the napkin technique, you need textile napkin glue.
6. Use a brush to apply napkin glue to the table top or the chair surface that you want to stick on. Place the napkin pieces carefully and crease-free and press the motif from the inside out with the brush. If you are afraid of tearing the design, put a film over the design and smooth it out without damaging it. The serviette pieces should not overlap, as this would create unsightly dents.
7. Apply napkin glue again over all motifs, going over the edges. The glue looks whitish at first, but becomes clear after drying.
8. Coat the entire surfaces of the table and the chair with clear lacquer for the napkin technique. Apply the clear coat at least twice to fix the motifs.

Suggestions for the design of chairs and tables

• You could give the table and chair a Mediterranean touch by choosing napkins with olive branches and olives or vines. The table and chair legs are decorated with tendrils and the table top with olives or grapes. Either distribute the motifs over the entire surface or you only decorate the corners of the table. The same applies to the chair seat or the back of the chair. A marbled background in ivory or white is ideal.
• You decorate in the African style by sticking a selection of typical African animals on the table top, and you do the same on the seat of the chair. You can stick a colorful mix of torn napkins in different fur patterns on the table and chair legs. A simple ivory-colored background goes particularly well with this African style. The sample napkins can be used abundantly for this, provided you remember that the napkins do not overlap.
• To create a nautical style, marble your white lacquered chair and (light blue) table as described above. You can now use all typical napkin patterns on the table surface, from seagulls to beaches and lighthouses. It is also very nice to put together a painting with the theme of the beach from different napkin motifs on the table top. Repeat the picture in approximately the same way on the back of the chair or the seat. Glue individual carefully cut out motifs such as seashells on the legs of the table and chair, e.g. B. on the lower third of the legs so as not to let the work of art appear overloaded.
• With a little luck you will also get sample napkins in the oriental style. Here you can z. B. Cut out ornaments and use them as you like on the table and chair.
• Furniture embellishment is child-friendly if you conjure up fairy-tale characters or princesses on the table and the back of the chair.
• Whichever motifs you use or which of your own ideas you realize, make sure that the napkins match in style in order to get a coherent overall picture.

Of course, these are only ideas that should help your own imagination on the jumps. Because the really fascinating thing about the napkin technique is the endless possibilities that open up to you.