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Door decoration with self-adhesive film is an ideal material for pasting various wood, glass, metal and other hard surfaces. It has excellent elasticity, which allows it to be bent, repeating the contour of the glued surface exactly.

This property makes self-adhesive film an indispensable material for decorating various interior items, including: any furniture, doors, windows, window sills, and even walls and ceilings. If there are no extra funds for purchasing new furniture, and the old one, to put it mildly, hasn’t been pleasing the eye for a long time, then armed with a self-adhesive film, you can drastically transform the appearance of any room.

What attracts

Decor doors self-adhesive film can be found quite often. But before you do is worth reading, what can attract this material.

And after that, make a choice. The price of the material is not so high, but this does not mean that it will be so easy to redo it later.

So:

• Having decorated the doors with a self-adhesive film, we get an excellent opportunity not only quickly enough, but also, most importantly, to inexpensively change their design and hide the real age.
• This film has one side - decorative, and the second - covered with adhesive composition, initially covered with glossy paper.
• Such a film differs not only in a large variety of colors and patterns (from imitation of natural stone and wood to abstraction), but also in texture (matte or glossy).
• It comes in different widths of rolls, has very good characteristics and, unlike painting with oil paint, will not poison the air during application. The film is not afraid of moisture and dust, and also does not require special care.

So how to make the door pasting self-adhesive film? Everything seems to be simple, but, as in any business, you need to know some subtleties of the process. Everything can be done with your own hands, but you must act carefully and carefully. The video in this article will help to understand everything.

Preparing the door for pasting

To make it easier to work, I first of all removed the door from the hinges and dismantled the accessories from it (handles (see. Handles for interior doors - how to choose the best), latches, locks, etc.). It was necessary to mess around with the door with glass a little longer, because in this case it was necessary to remove the glass, after removing the beadings.

Attention: In order not to suffer with pasting glazing, it is better to purchase new ones in advance. It is not expensive to do much easier.

So:

• Since the self-adhesive film is so elastic that when gluing it repeats any unevenness on the surfaceI previously polished the plane of the door leaf with sandpaper. If the old paint on the door was peeling, then you had to remove it.
• To get a beautiful surface, all the flaws on it must be removed. Potholes - putty putty, and the bulge - remove the plane. And only then work sandpaper, trying to achieve maximum smoothness.
• After the surface is sanded and dust free, it must be degreased. To do this, just rinse it by adding dishwashing detergent to warm water.
• Now the canvas should be allowed to dry. Not unnecessary will be processing the canvas with acrylic primer. Some prior to gluing the film treat the surface with a mild soap solution. This allows you to move the film to the desired position, upon reaching which the solution “expels” the solution to the outside with a spatula. The process is more laborious, but it is much easier to fix possible flaws.

Attention: In addition, before working with the film, you should check how tightly the door closes and, if necessary, remove a little from the ends, ensuring a small gap, taking into account the film thickness. This is necessary in order to further avoid abrasions of the film when the door is working, because, although it is thin, it still has some thickness.

Sequence of work with self-adhesive film

And now the mounting instructions. We believe that you already have material for pasting, the square of which you have previously calculated.

So:

• Now you need to make it open.. If you decorate a blind door, then the process of pasting it will be much faster.
• Pencil produce the markup required for the size of the canvas.giving some margin around the edges. And in the case when the width of the available film allows, then we make markup taking into account the ends of the door.
• Cutting procedure simplified the fact that the manufacturers have taken care of its relief by inflicting a grid on the back side of the film, similar to the millimeter paper known to many.
• Pasting start from the top of the door leaf, after separating approximately 10 cm of protective paper from the same side of the film. Apply a film attached to the top of the door leaf and begin to smooth it with a rubber spatula or a soft cloth, as is usually done with wallpaper, from the middle to the edges.

Attention: At the same time, the lower part of the film, with protective paper not removed, hangs loose. We, slowly, gradually move down, smoothing the film and gradually separating the paper from it.

• Wrapping ends can be made to the main canvas. In this case, you need to wrap a small strip of material from the end on the canvas. And you can stick the film on the end together with pasting the door leaf, not forgetting for this to take into account its size when cutting.

• After everything is pasted over with a sharp knife, we cut off the excess material from the sides. We do this carefully and as smoothly as possible. We also cut a hole into which a lock will then be inserted and install a handle, a latch and another one taken before the fittings. We decorate the hinges (see Hidden door hinges: how to choose and install correctly).
• During pasting it is necessary to ensure that no bubbles remain on the surface.. To do this, the film should be smoothed slowly and very carefully. And if the bubbles could not be avoided, then they should be pierced with a needle and expel the air, tightly pressing this place. You can also use another option in which this place needs to be heated with a hairdryer, and then thoroughly smooth.
• After everything is done, the door can be hinged.where it will need some time for adaptation and drying in the "new clothes". Now you can admire your work and significantly improved interior of your home. And all this happened with the help of ordinary self-adhesive film.

The self-adhesive film for a decor of a door is sometimes the most perfect variant of the solution of a question of design. But it should be remembered that just as easily you can spoil everything. Therefore, first look at the photo and decide how much this option will suit you and only then proceed to work.