My Life Simulator

Lu Li's house is relatively old.

The decoration in that year consisted of painting the walls with a layer of latex paint, hanging some gypsum roofs on the ceiling, and laying a layer of floor tiles on the ground.

In Lu Li's "decoration design", these basic projects do not need major changes at all.

Walls can be solved by wall painting. Doors, windows and furniture can be carved and painted.

The only problem is that this modification takes time. This is even more insignificant, anyway, it is also a skill practice, and you can always finish it slowly.

The next day, Lu Li began to act.

In the beginning, there was no big fanfare. Lu Li started from a small place. First, his skills were not superb enough, and secondly, he couldn't make a big deal by himself.

The first thing Lu Li remodeled was the dining table.

The dining table at home is very old. It is said that before Lu Li was born, there was this table at home.

This is a square log table. Compared to those synthetic tables that I buy now, this table is old, but... the raw wood material is very suitable for modification.

Antique carved Eight Immortals table.

Much stronger than synthetic tables bought outside.

Lu Li smiled and walked around the table, already having a case in mind.

The shape of this table is very simple, with a table top, four legs, and nothing extra. It looks very simple.

But... the simpler it is, the better it is.

The four table legs can be carved into tiger squatting patterns, like four tiger claws clinging to the ground.

Above the four table legs, a skirt can be added to make carvings, and the patterns can be made into Kuilong patterns.

Around the tabletop can be carved, engraved with eight treasure patterns. As for the middle of the table...this one cannot be engraved. The desktop must be flat, otherwise it is difficult to put things.

Lu Li was going to draw a picture of a lotus and carp on the desktop.

The entire table has been repainted and painted fuchsia to look like antique mahogany furniture.

After this transformation, the force came up!

Lu Li nodded with a smile, took out the wood carving tools from the room, and began to carve the legs of the table.

First, draw the picture, make the four table legs into a tiger squat shape, trace the composition texture, and then start carving with the knife.

This kind of large-scale sculpture is not as delicate as the small pieces, but it is more drastic in operation.

Lu Li picked up the large carving knife and modified the shape of the four table legs. The four table legs that went straight up and down formed a tiger squat arc, and carved lines on the table legs.

Below the legs of the table, the landing position needs to be carefully carved. Lu Li carved the lower ends of the four table legs into tiger claws.

After the four table legs were carved, Lu Li began to carve the Eight Treasures pattern around the table.

Because to make the skirt of the Kuilong pattern, woodworking tools are also needed. Lu Li only placed the order online last night, and it will take a few days for the goods to arrive. For the time being, we can only make these small changes.

The eight-treasure pattern around the table looks complicated, with many lines and patterns, but it's actually not that complicated.

These patterns are all the same. After the drawing, they are engraved one by one, but they are just repeating the same engraving technique.

It didn't take too long to talk, Lu Li completed the carving of the Eight Treasures around the table.

In order to achieve the design effect of Lu Li, this table also needs to be fitted with a Kuilong pattern skirt around it, and then painted and lacquered before it can be officially completed.

The tools have not arrived, and the paint has not arrived, so it is not possible to do it in one step for the time being.

So, Lu Li turned his attention to the stool matching the Eight Immortals table.

The style of the four stools is also very simple. The only advantage is that the materials are solid, which is very beneficial to Lu Li's modification and beautification.

In order to match the table, the decoration of the four stools is exactly the same as that of the table. It is also the four legs with the tiger squat pattern, the skirt with the Kuilong pattern, and the four sides of the stool with the eight treasure pattern.

With the same shape and texture, Lu Li's carving is smoother and more handy.

As the morning passed, Lu Li re-carved the dining table and four stools.

Because there is still a lack of skirts, and there is no lacquer, the table and stool after re-carving, the color is white and white, it is not too good-looking.

However, compared to the simple table and stool before, even this unfinished work has been raised several levels.

Dad Lu and Mom Lu didn't go home for lunch. Lu Li made lunch by himself and brought it over to sit on the re-beautified table. The feeling of eating seemed to be better.

Art comes from life, but it is higher than life, but... in the end, it must return to life!

It is more important to bring "beauty" to one's own family than to bring "beauty" to others.

After lunch, Lu Li did not immediately go into the next step of beautification.

Yesterday, I promised my mother that the clay sculpture and pen holder must not be sloppy. It must be completed first.

For the second pen holder, Lu Li made a set with the previous one. One is "the bright moon shines on the river", and the other is "the rising sun reflects the hills".

Dad's clay sculpture is to move bricks, and mother's clay sculpture is to sell vegetables.

The second time I made the pen holder and clay sculpture, it was easier and more skilled than the first time, and Lu Li took far less time than the first time.

After half a day, the clay sculptures and bamboo sculptures were all finished.

Take out the clay sculptures and bamboo sculptures from yesterday, and place the two clay sculptures side by side on the coffee table in the living room.

When Mom and Dad came back, they were very happy to see two clay sculptures and two "cups" on the coffee table.

Parents cannot see the artistic value of these two things. However, they have already felt this intention.

"Haha! It's beautiful! It's so beautiful!"

My mother looked around at the clay sculpture on the coffee table for a while, and laughed hard.

"Huh? Table and stool..."

Dad suddenly saw the very different dining table and stools, and said in surprise, "Baby, the table and stools...you made them too?"

"It's not finished yet!"

Lu Li said with a smile, "It's just that the carving has been completed, the skirts have to be fitted, and the paint has to be painted. It will be finished in a few days."

"Oh! I just saw it!"

My mother turned her head and saw the greatly changed dining table and stools, she ran up quickly, circled around the table, and exclaimed with a "tsk tsk" in her mouth, "What a skill! Son, you are really good at learning this art. When you do it like this, it looks like an antique on TV."

"Art makes life better!"

Lu Li replied with a smile.

"Hmm! Not bad! Not bad!"

Dad also smiled and nodded, "It seems that it is very useful for you to learn this art!"

Lu Li smiled, I don't know if it's useful for others to learn art. I study art, it must be useful!

Can't improve the quality of life, can't make life better, why should I learn it?

For the next period of time, Lu Li was still "beautifying the environment" step by step.

Table carvings, stool carvings, then coffee table carvings, wooden sofa carvings, doors, windows, wardrobes, desks, all carvings.

Apart from the fact that the bed is not made of logs and is not suitable for renovation, all kinds of furniture in the home have been beautified by Lu Li's carvings.

The woodworking tools and various paints ordered by Lu Li have also arrived.

After buying some hardboards from a lumber company, Lu Li began to carve tables, stools, sofas, coffee tables, and decorative skirts on doors and windows.

The windows are plastic-steel sliding windows, so there is no way to beautify them. Lu Li just installed a decorative skirt above the curtains to beautify it a little.

When installing these decorative skirts, except for the nails on the doors and windows, Lu Li did not use nails in other places. Instead, the traditional woodworking mortise and tenon process was used to assemble these skirts.

With the trim skirt installed, it's time to paint and paint.

Color painting and color matching is Lu Li's specialty, so naturally it is not a problem, even painting on various furniture doors and windows is not a problem.

The only thing that comes out of hand is the paint.

Fortunately, I can find everything on the Internet. I searched the lacquerware manufacturing process and color painting process. After reading it, Lu Li also mastered the process flow.

There isn't too much esoteric stuff in varnishing, it's nothing more than primer, paint, paint, and then a coat of varnish.

Sand it with sandpaper first, then scrape the primer, then paint it, and after it dries, paint on it, and finally paint it with varnish.

The work is very easy, and it doesn't take much time, but... there are several steps in the middle that need to be dried naturally, and half a month has passed by the time the whole process is completed.

Half a month later, Lu Li's furniture, doors, windows and wardrobes were all brand new.

Exquisite carved and painted decorations give these old homes a new lease of life. Every piece of furniture, every door and window, looks gorgeous, elegant and beautiful.

"Wow……"

When Lu Li's last step was completed, Lu's father and Lu's mother were stunned when they saw these furniture, these doors and windows, and these wardrobes!

In the living room, on the purple-red coffee table, the rich and noble peony patterns are engraved and painted.

Two short and one long, three wooden sofas, were transformed into Panlong Taishi chairs. Carved dragon and phoenix, five blessings come to the door, all kinds of carvings and paintings, colorful and beautiful.

In the restaurant next to it, there is an antique tiger squat table with four tiger squat square stools, like a tiger squatting on a hill.

Around the dark purple Eight Immortals table, there are four-sided Kuilong pattern skirts, colorful paintings, and brilliance.

A circle is drawn in the center of the desktop, and a lotus carp picture is drawn in this circle. The four corners outside the circle are painted with four decorations of Fu, Lu and Shouxi.

Such a sofa, such a coffee table, such a table... This is a work of art, right?

beautiful!

These pieces of furniture...are completely different from the original junk!

"Son, just with this skill, you will never worry about it in your life!"

Dad Lu was very happy when he saw these beautiful and art-like furniture at home.

Not because of the furniture, but because of Lu Li's craftsmanship. With this ability, you don't have to worry about not being able to eat in the future.

"There are even more beautiful ones!"

Lu Li smiled and pointed to the direction of the room, "I have remodeled the door and wardrobe, let's see the final result!"

"The door and wardrobe are also finished? Well, take a good look!"

Mother Lu had a smile on her face, and quickly got up and ran over.

Lu Li also walked to the door with his father.

At this moment, the finally completed door has a Chinese-style lattice frame with carved and painted colors on the original door frame and door panel, and a painted painting is also carved on the door page.

Lu Li's room had "Hanmei Aoxue" on the door.

Inside the Chinese-style lattice frame, stands a cold plum that is Lingshuang Aoxue. There is also a poem inscribed in the blank space: "The sword is sharpened from the sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold."

In the parents' room, the door is "Fugui Peony", and a splendid peony is blooming in the Chinese-style lattice frame.

Next to the guest room, the door is carved and painted with a "welcoming pine".

After such a transformation, the once old decoration and old furniture have reappeared and bloomed brightly.

"It's beautiful! It's so beautiful!"

Mom looked at the engraving on the door, and smiled from ear to ear.

"Really beautiful!"

Dad also nodded. Looking up at the yellowed latex paint walls, Dad frowned again.

"Son, the furniture and doors and windows are very beautiful, this is the wall..."

Dad turned his head to look at Lu Li and smiled, "It seems that this wall needs to be redecorated, otherwise it won't be worthy of the things my son made."

"No need for decoration!"

Lu Li smiled and shook his head, "Dad, what is the most high-end wall decoration right now? It's wall painting!"

"Wall painting?"

Dad couldn't figure out what it was.

"It's just painting!"

Lu Li grinned, "Isn't painting what I do best? Leave it to me!"

"well!"

Hearing this, Mom and Dad nodded again and again.

The next day, Lu Li started painting the walls.

Lu Li had already made a plan for the wall painting. The required paints and some required tools have also been bought back.

Everything is ready, just waiting...to do the sanitation.

Well, before painting, you have to clean and wipe the walls, ceiling, and everything, and then start to apply the base color after cleaning.

Taking the ladder, Lu Li wiped and cleaned the walls, and cleaned the entire room thoroughly. Some areas that were not flat still needed to be polished with sandpaper.

It's easier said than done... It took Lu Li a whole day just to clean the walls and ceilings.

After a night of drying, Lu Li began to paint the walls the next day.

The background color is determined according to the decoration style. Generally, they are relatively light colors, such as beige, milky white, and light pink. These background colors.

Take a large brush, like applying latex paint, and paint every wall and ceiling in the entire room.

This process took Lu Li two days. After brushing the base color, Lu Li left it empty for two more days, waiting for the base color to dry before officially starting to paint.

On the TV wall in the living room, Lu Li painted a lotus pond.

A bunch of wicker hangs down from the upper left corner, and a pomegranate sticks out from the upper right corner. The blue waves are rippling right in front, and the distant view is a clump of green reeds. Below, on both sides of the TV, are lotus plants and lotus leaves.

Opposite the TV wall, on this wall, Lu Li painted a landscape of green hills, surrounded by clear water, waterfalls and flowing springs.

On the wall of the restaurant, Lu Li painted a scene of an ancient banquet. There are four separate paintings of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum on the hallway.

On the walls of the room, the main paintings are the scenery of flowers and birds, which are warm pictures with warm colors.

The entire painting process took Lu Li more than half a month.

After Lu Li finished painting the "Peach Blossoms with Peach Blossoms" in his room, the month-long "home beautification" project was finally completed successfully.

You're done!

Lu Li laughed happily. What is art, this is art!