“Tea house” using decoupage technique

Almost all women simply adore various things “to please the eye” in their kitchen. A box for storing tea bags “Tea House” is exactly the “thing” that any housewife will be happy with.
For making a tea house using the technique decoupage we will need the following materials:
  • wooden blank “Tea House”;
  • napkin;
  • artistic acrylic primer;
  • acrylic paints for creativity (blue, yellow, green (leaf green, brown);
  • bitumen (or burnt umber);
  • stationery PVA glue (or acrylic varnish);
  • paraffin candle;
  • facet varnish;
  • acrylic varnish for finishing the product;
  • brushes, foam sponges, masking tape, sandpaper, stationery file, “TEA” stencil.


For making a tea house


The first step in decorating a wooden workpiece is sanding all side surfaces with sandpaper - bringing it to a smooth state. We remove all small chips and flaws so that our workpiece is as smooth as possible. After sanding, coat the outer surfaces with acrylic artist primer.

cover external surfaces


If you are not going to decorate the internal surfaces, you don’t need to prime them. After the primer has dried, you can go over it again with fine sandpaper to even out the thickness of the coating if the primer was applied unevenly. To give the effect of “time,” we paint the places of future “scuffs” with brown acrylic paint, which in the future will appear through the main color and create that same antique effect.

paint with brown acrylic paint


After the brown paint has completely dried, we rub some places with an ordinary wax candle; excess and large crumbs must be removed with a sponge or soft cloth.

rub with a candle


We cover our house with paint of the main blue color.

Covering the house


If brown paint shows through, you can apply a second coat of blue paint. After complete drying, we carefully go over the places that we rubbed with a candle with sandpaper to create abrasions.

create abrasions


The element of the napkin pattern that we will glue is quite large. In order to stick it without wrinkles, we will use the so-called technique. "gluing by file method."

Napkin pattern element


Place the napkin face down on a regular stationery file (do not forget to remove the lower white layers of the napkin). Gently pour water evenly onto the center of the napkin.

pour water


Distributing the water over the entire surface, we level our napkin with a brush or fingers, expelling all the bubbles. Drain off excess water. We apply the file with the napkin to the side surface of the house, smooth it out, gently pressing the design, and slowly remove the file from the edge of the napkin - voila, and not a single wrinkle! Without waiting for it to dry, glue the top with decoupage varnish or PVA glue (diluted 1:1 with water).

Attaching a file with a napkin


While our house is drying, we will decorate the roof. Once primed and painted brown, we mark the roof into strips using masking tape.Apply a one-component beveled varnish evenly, not very thickly, on top, which, when dry, will give us beautiful small cracks and imitate “traces of time.”

let's decorate the roof


Without waiting for the varnish to dry, remove the masking tape. Using a stencil, we will apply the inscription “Thea” to the façade surface. To prevent the stencil from moving, we attach it with masking tape and, using a sponge, drive the paint (burnt umber) into the stencil using a “smacking” motion.

let's put an inscription

let's put an inscription


To smooth the edge of the napkin and create a smooth transition, we beat off the edges of the design with light blue paint.

smoothing the edge of the napkin


Apply small sprays of the same paint using a toothbrush.

eat small sprays


Using a sponge, we beat off all the edges of our house with bitumen (or burnt umber) using “smacking” movements.

beat with bitumen


After complete drying, we cover the house with several layers of acrylic finishing matte varnish.

cover the house

Tea house using decoupage technique
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