How to restore an interior door with your own hands

The front door is a business card of any house. Interior doors are also an important part of the interior. The life of these products from the point of view of mechanics is unlimited, but the outer surface wear out quickly enough. Therefore, the question of how to return to interior doors an attractive appearance has always been relevant. Next, we consider the most interesting and effective ways to perform restoration work.

Table of contents

1. Removing the old coating from the interior door
2. Restoration of wooden interior doors
3. Restoration of interior doors from fiberboard
4. Restoration of plastic interior doors
5. Decorating the interior door: Choosing the foundation
6. Restoration of the interior door by creating stained glass

Removing the old coating from the interior door

The entrance doors, as a rule, are metal. They consist of the inner frame and external sheathing. Therefore, they are restored by one single method of replacing decorative linings. With interior doors, things are different. This is primarily due to the material from which the door is made. Therefore, each of the options is advisable to consider separately. But before starting work, it is still necessary to perform a number of preparatory procedures. You should start with the removal of the old coating. For work you will need:

• liquid for removing the paintwork (the most gentle surface material),
• stacks (provided that the door is equipped with a window stained glass window),
• new door lock and loops,
• putty and lamp on wood,
• sandpaper,
• a few brushes of different widths,
• soldering lamp or iron with a piece of dense fabric,
• locksmithing tool (screwdrivers, hammer, knife and pliers)
• putty knife.

All of the above is used to complete the first stage of work. The door is removed from the loops and applied to it with a brush to remove varnish and paint. Next, it should be given the time indicated according to the instructions in order for the substance to react and the upper layer of the paint coating will swell. Then it should be removed with a spatula and sandpaper (fine -grained sheets of sandpaper should be used). In case the doors are still left with areas of paint, which is not removed using a liquid, accurate use of a soldering iron or iron is allowed. It is important to observe the temperature so as not to burn and damage the surface. After the coating is removed, the turn of restoration work comes.

Restoration of wooden interior doors

Of particular value are old doors made from a solid piece of wood. Despite the abundance of modern analogues, natural materials still look more advantageous against their background. Quite often, old wooden doors require only exterior decoration, while their base remains in excellent condition, which should be used. The restoration of wooden doors is a rather exciting process that will bring pleasure, and especially from the results of well -done work.

After the remnants of the paintwork were removed with the help of a special liquid and soldering iron, the time comes to grind the door coating. To do this, use pieces of sandpaper with different sizes of the coating - it is best to start grinding with an emery sheet with large grainness, and then gradually go to pieces with the smallest. It is important to move the movements in the direction of the fibers, since in another case the transverse lines from grinding can be noticeably stand out on the surface. In the event that the door leaf has noticeable defects, you should get rid of them before further processing. For small scratches or cracks, acrylic putty is well suited, which also differs in a colorless structure, which in the future is useful when painting the door. If you can not get rid of the defect in this way, due to the fact that the crack has significant sizes, then the pricking of a special lining is allowed, which must be made of the same variety of wood and have the same color and structure.

After all these procedures, it is worth starting to final - applying a new layer of paint. In order to choose the appropriate color of the door leaf - it is worth paying attention to the diverse and rich assortment of stains for wood (a stain, still known as a heater, is a liquid for staining treated drainage in the color of one or another wood breed). In addition, the stain has good wood -free properties.

This tool must be applied with a brush or, if possible, a spray gun (aerosol spray of paint). Next, it is necessary to cover the wooden door with a protective layer of varnish - and ready, the old door is now indistinguishable from new and expensive doors made of natural wood.

Restoration of interior doors from fiberboard

The technology of restoration work on the doors from the fiberboard has certain differences. For rough removal of the paint, in no case can you use a soldering iron and coarse -grained sandpaper, since the thickness of the coating as a rule does not exceed the indicator of 4 mm. Cleaning work before painting should be carried out with special care. It is permissible to remove the coating only with a fine -grained skin, for better removal of the coating, you should use a warm iron, previously wrapped in dense fabric to avoid overheating of the surface. After the grinding is completed, the door should be covered with paint. However, there is an extremely spectacular and economical cost plan for giving an old door from fiberboard more attractiveness. To do this, it is enough to glue the door from the fiberboard with a wood structure known as a veneer. It has an adhesive basis and texture of real wood, which will allow even the most non -casual door to the form of a tree that is no distinctive from a product. Due to the low price (from 1.5 US dollars per square meter), this method will allow relatively quickly and easily noticeably ennoble the appearance.

It is important to remember that during the restoration of any door, whether it is made of PVC or wood, it is worth carrying out recovery work with a door box. The replacement option is not suitable due to the fact that during the installation of a new box there will be gaps between the door leaf and threshold.

Restoration of plastic interior doors

Plastic doors rarely differ in a good appearance and in the case of pollution or being in an environment with adverse climatic conditions (for example, if the door is external rather than interior) quickly lose their aesthetic attractiveness. Nevertheless, you should not get a wallet in the hearts and calculate the cost of replacing such a door - and it is enough for it to give a new look. This is possible in several ways:

• paint with water paint based on polyurethane,
• push a bright vinyl film,
• glue the surface with veneer,

Each of the methods is attractive and economical in its own way.

Painting involves preliminary and thorough cleaning of the surface of the plastic from the protective film and traces of contamination. With the help of the means of the purge, finishing the surface is carried out and then the painting process occurs.

Before applying the paint to the plastic, it is necessary to add an extremely important component - hardener to it. After that, the paint needs additional filtering.

The process of painting should be carried out with special care, I use a sprayer. The finished layer should have at least 60 microns thick, working pressure in the spray of at least three atmospheres. Painting of a plastic surface requires applying one layer of paint, in some cases additional layers are applied to create the necessary decorative effect.

Drying the plastic surface is carried out both at room and at a higher temperature. For example, the average time of complete drying of a painted layer at room temperature takes 9 hours, if drying is carried out at a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, then the necessary effect is achieved in an hour and a half. It should be remembered that the time of complete crystallization of the finished coating takes about a week.

Unlike other methods for the restoration of plastic doors and surfaces, the indicated option has the greatest complexity, so you should pay attention primarily to other methods.

Applying a vinyl film will quickly and without much difficulty create a whole composition from various drawings or patterns on the door. A large number of a wide variety of drawings will allow you to choose the most optimal option for any style and interior. The vinyl film is glued simply: a pattern is applied to a pre -cleaned and low -fat surface, then after the necessary adjustment the white paper base is carefully removed and the film is glued to the surface. It is important to take into account several points:

• after degreasing and cleaning, immediately before gluing, the surface should be treated with a soap solution. Such a measure will allow you to adjust the location of the sticker and relieve the appearance of air bubbles (it is convenient to use the aqueous solution of soap and the usual household sprayer for this, it is suitable, for example, from the windows for winding windows),
• the option with simple water is categorically unacceptable: the sticker will not glide on it and therefore, with the error, the location of the sticker can no longer change anything,
• work should be carried out with an assistant, especially if the plot for gluing has a large area,
• the paper base of the sticker cannot be wetted, otherwise difficulties will arise with the unhindered separation of the film from the surface of the base.

Another method, which differs from the previous ones with its simplicity and, which is important, the ability to give any door a truly chic look is the glossy plastic surface with veneer. A similar method did not receive extensive distribution, but it allows you to turn a simple plastic canvas into a door from natural wood with light movements (at least the external difference will not be too noticeable, especially from a distance). In fact, the veneer is natural wood, so aesthetic attractiveness will not be in doubt. Preparatory work under the veneer does not differ from others: the plastic surface should be cleaned of pollution and degreased, in addition, you need to remove the protective layer, then attach the sheets or lamella veneers on the plastic door and glitter with a warmed iron. The appropriate temperature should be maintained so that the glue is well fixed, but you should not allow overheating to avoid plastic deformation. For this, dense fabric is suitable, which forms a gasket to protect the working surface.

In general, the restoration of doors with your own hands is not difficult even for those people who are not familiar with such work and have no proper experience.

Decorating the interior door: Choosing the foundation

The previously indicated methods are suitable for any type of door. But what about those who do not want to work with paint or do not represent a new door without a bright pattern? For such situations, it is advisable to pay attention to the indicated methods:

• Gleaming of door wallpaper is a spectacular attack towards design solutions, since they allow you to give any door the status of a whole artistic composition. Such murals are distinguished by a wide variety of color options, but it should be borne in the case of pollution or touch, they risk quickly losing their original appearance.

• Gleaming of vinyl wallpapers is characterized in that such material is noticeably cheaper, the rest is inherent in the same advantages and disadvantages as the photo wallpaper.
• Decorating doors with fabric and improvised materials. The restoration of doors is very original and unusual, using glue, it is quite possible to create natural and voluminous compositions. In addition to fabric, it is possible to glue the door with notes, posters and cards, old photos and other solutions. The choice is great and in any case will cause involuntary admiration.

As the main provisions, only the need to carry out all the stages of work with due accuracy should be distinguished in order to avoid flaws in the design.

Restoration of the interior door by creating stained glass

Quite often, old doors have glass stained glasses in their design. It should be agreed that it would be incorrect to deprive such an important element of style and leave it without restoration. Moreover, there are a lot of ways to design:

• artistic painting of glass,
• sticker of the stained glass film,
• stained design of the drawing using sandblasting.

The creation of a new, unique stained glass will not require special conditions: it is enough to have proper skill or to entrust this stage of work to a specialist. Glass painting with water -based paints will be quite fast and original.

Stained glass films are suitable for those people who have the intention to create a whole picture without investing special means. The simplicity of gluing and undemanding to the conditions - these are the distinctive features of the film for decorative design.

Experienced masters with the help of sandblasting technologies will be able to recreate a whole composition on the stained glass, which cannot be found equal. This is a complex process, for this reason it should be entrusted to specialists.

In general, there are a lot of restoration methods, even more ways to choose the right style and material - it is only important to first recreate the necessary image in the head and then everything will pass as clockwork.