Along with being less expensive than pre-assembled furniture, flatpack furniture can easily be dismantled and customized. In this article, we’ll explore some of the best ways to customize your flatpack furniture with your personal touch. Let’s dive in!
Hiring a Professional
While you might want to assemble and customise your flatpack furniture, you may be interested in hiring someone to assemble flatpack furniture or/and hiring a professional painter or decorator to help bring your customised flatpack visions to life.
Whatever the case, you should get yourself quotes from three or so professionals (at any given phase of the process where you want to hire someone) before deciding who is right for you.
Paint Jobs
One of the most obvious approaches to customizing your flatpack furniture is to take out your paint brush.
On the one hand you may want to simply paint a given piece of flatpack furniture in a uniform colour. However, if you’d prefer, you could try to mix things up and paint it in various shades, perhaps of the same colour or of various colours.
The complexity of the paint job should, of course, match your skill level. The more confident you are in your painting abilities, the more complex the task can be.
While a uniform paint job might make more sense for smaller furniture like a single chair, larger piece of furniture such as a chest of drawers would be better suited to increasingly complex paint work (if this interests you).
One cool trick that you might want to consider is painting sections of your furniture in different shades based on whether or not they would generally feature shadows. This way, you could emphasize the contrast between shadowy parts of the furniture and those more exposed to light with greater clarity.
Stencil Designs
Flatpack furniture is the perfect black canvas not only for painting but for stencilling. The number of stencil designs you could use is practically endless with options to suit all tastes, preferences and interests.
Whether you want to add a beautiful geometric shape, colourful and varied designs or a stencil related to one of your interests (e.g., the crest of a popular sports team), stencilling can allow you to perfectly personalise your flatpack furniture.
The use of geometric shape stencilling is especially popular to enhance furniture, whether to upcycle old furniture or customise new flatpack furniture.
Some geometric shapes worth considering are:
- Faux tile stencilling.
- Mandala painting stencils.
- Vintage stencils.
- Flowery and organic stencils.
- Harlequin stencilling.
Creating Works of Art
If you want to go really out there, you might be interested in turning your flatpack furniture into pieces of art. Whether or not they will be safe to use after will depend on how inventive you get and how much you alter (if at all) their original structure.
A combination of stencilling, painting or/and adding a suitable varnish (if appropriate) can help turn your plain piece of flatpack furniture into something truly special.
If you are not concerned with maintaining its usability you could always try creating abstract pieces that will be used solely for artistic display.
Some artistic designs we’ve come across online that used flatpack furniture included:
- Irregularly shaped seats with two contrasting paint tones to help emphasise jagged dimensionality.
- Flatpack folding chair used for paintwork and artistic photoshoots.
- Flatpack furniture with colourful psychedelic designs.
The flatpack furniture world is your oyster in that regard. Just be sure to proceed with caution so that you don’t hurt yourself, whether from splitters or getting your hand stuck between furniture parts as you turn say a chair into a visual representation of a human emotion!
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Debz Louise is a plus-size blogger based in Yorkshire. Behind many nationwide campaigns such as #WeaAreTheThey & winner of Best Blogger at the UK Plus Size Awards, she talkas about life as a plus-size 40-something woman in South Yorkshire.
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