Pickling and craquelado, two decorative options

The techniques of pickling and craquelado are traditional decorative methods that can provide interesting ideas to beautify our home. When it comes to talking about stripping a French decoration that was born at the time of Louis XV.

The above technique is to paint the furniture in white, pastel or gray (the colors are usually used), creating a decorative protection achieves light and give more shine to the furniture, when their softening point and giving a new life.

This furniture refurbished by stripping combine perfectly with walls dominated by gray, blue or light green, and more. In the picture we can see an example of etching, from the workshop of restoration online "The taste of the old".

On the other hand, is a technique craquelado aging. It finished a very simple and easy to implement, with the aim of reproducing the cries often seen in paintings, antique furniture and crockery. Obtained in this way a specific personality in the decoration of furniture, connecting with the tradition and history.