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Career Guidance Skills communication, collaboration and creativity S1.12 - creating artistic, visual or instructive materials S1.12.1 - creating visual displays and decorations Decorate furniture
Description
Use techniques such as gilding, silver-plating, framing or engraving to add specific decorations in the material of the furniture.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 6 occupations
- Total: 8 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Antique furniture reproducerAntique furniture reproducers duplicate and recreate antique furniture. They prepare drawings and templates of the article, create, fit and assemble parts and finish the article af…
- Furniture upholstererFurniture upholsterers provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing and covers. Sometimes they have to remove old padding, filling and broken strings before to replace them usi…
Optional for
- Decorative painterDecorative painters design and create visual art on different kinds of surfaces such as pottery, casings, glass and fabric. They use diverse materials and a variety of techniques t…
- Furniture restorerFurniture restorers analyse materials and techniques in order to assess the state of an old piece of furniture and to identify and classify it according to art and cultural…
- UpholstererUpholsterers provide objects such as furniture, panels, orthopaedic devices, fixtures or vehicle parts with padding or soft covering. They can install, repair or replace the uphols…
- Wood painterWood painters design and create visual art on wooden surfaces and objects such as furniture, figurines and toys. They use a variety of techniques to produce decorative illustration…
- Cabinet makerCabinet makers build cabinets or other pieces of furniture by cutting, shaping and fitting pieces of wood. They use different kind of power and hand tools, such as lathes,…
- Furniture finisherFurniture finishers treat the surface of wood furniture using hand and power tools to sand, clean and polish. They apply wood coatings onto wooden surfaces by using different techn…
Related skills
- Manufacturing of furniture
- Furniture industry
- Paint decorative designs
- Prepare furniture for application of paint
- Fix minor scratches
- Apply a protective layer
- Sell furniture
- Handle delivery of furniture goods
- Repair furniture parts
- Clean furniture
- Estimate restoration costs
- Apply restoration techniques
- Sand wood
Last updated on February 19, 2026
