Buying Veneer to match IKEA

[Aizletree]

I've got these drawers in my room.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/8005393...

I've got homemade desk and shelf either side made of MDF.

It is possible to buy oak veneer from ikea? I'd like to match but may just have to paint another colour. I found this, but no idea on colour match....

http://www.woodveneeruk.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=...

Thanks

[Flintstone]

I have a felling this might be one of those jobs where in the long run you'd be better off buying a matching desk and shelves. In the past I've run around with similar projects and regretted it.

Signed

Marvin The Paranoid Android

[Tanguero]

The Ikea one is birch veneer according to your link, not oak. You can get almost any wood as a veneer, but matching the surface finish of the Ikea furniture is going to be difficult.

Edited by Tanguero on Sunday 4th July 18:50

[Simpo Two]

Take a trip over to Mildenahll and visit Art Veneers. They don't seem to have a website but the details ar at www.uk-local-search.co.uk/business/the+art+veneers... They have pretty much every kind of veneer that exists.

However, laying veneer and finishing is a skill in itself

[andy43]

Find a similar veneer, made from real trees.
Or try B&Q for some wood effect Contiboard.
Take a shakey camera phone pic of it. From a distance.
Print pic out on colour printer, resolution set to 'local newspaper'. Print on euroffice A4 copier paper.
Run pic through A4 laminator machine.
Apply to furniture with lashings of wood glue, mostly oozing out of the edges.
Job done - you have now recreated Ikea veneer. Time for some meatballs and gravadlax

[Simpo Two]

andy43 said:

Find a similar veneer, made from real trees.
Or try B&Q for some wood effect Contiboard.
Take a shakey camera phone pic of it. From a distance.
Print pic out on colour printer, resolution set to 'local newspaper'. Print on euroffice A4 copier paper.
Run pic through A4 laminator machine.
Apply to furniture with lashings of wood glue, mostly oozing out of the edges.
Job done - you have now recreated Ikea veneer. Time for some meatballs and gravadlax

Or just use the Contiboard...

[It's fixable...]

Hi Simpo,

Art Veneers was sold on to business in Derbyshire in 2005 and is no longer based in Mouldyhole.

Link http://www.craft-supplies.co.uk/

[Aizletree]

Didn't know contiboard exists!

The desks are cut and sanded down already. I think I'll give up as suggested with trying to find and then get a nice finish on my own veneer. Think I'll just paint them. Unless this is another trap....

I need to get some MDF sealer before I can paint on it? and then how can I finish it off/seal it again?

Excuse my ignorance but it's my first attempt at fitting a room.

You're guidance is greatly appreciated!

[t84]

Isn't IKEA blue?

[ncs]

Tanguero said:

The Ikea one is birch veneer according to your link, not oak. You can get almost any wood as a veneer, but matching the surface finish of the Ikea furniture is going to be difficult.

What he said!

The two are very different when you see them in the flesh.

You can buy Birch plywood from 1.5mm to 25mm but you wont find a Birch veneer to suit your needs very easily, if at all.

I would imagine the Ikea stuff will be Finnish Birch not Latvian/Russian.

Nick
www.tbrewer.co.uk

[Aizletree]

I forgot to say that I thought that was oak veneer in the link, my units are definately oak veneer.

Either way I've given up on coating them in veneer, going to paint them to suit the room!

[Simpo Two]

It's fixable... said:

Hi Simpo,

Art Veneers was sold on to business in Derbyshire in 2005 and is no longer based in Mouldyhole.

Link http://www.craft-supplies.co.uk/

Thanks. Pity, it was a fascinating place.