Do It Yourself Furniture Restoration

Do it yourself furniture restoration is now a huge niche in the house and home renovation sector and many products and services are flooding onto the market.

If you’re new at this game it will pay you to be bit careful with how you proceed at first. For instance, when dealing with old furniture don’t just assume that you need to strip away the battered old surface. In many cases this is just not necessary. Many of those early finishes such as shellac and varnish can be restored beautifully, unlike modern laminates or urethaned surfaces. Even pieces that have to be stripped because they’ve been painted over can still be brought back to life without having to attempt a French polish job which may end in disaster.

There is a product on the market called Restor-A-Finish which can do amazing some might even say, unbelievable things. All you need apart from a tin of Restor-A-Finish is some 0000 grade steel wool and some clean cloth. If your piece of furniture was polished years ago using shellac or varnish, your job is likely to be pretty easy and very rewarding. How do you tell? A rule of thumb is that anything manufactured before 1960 will have been finished in a fairly traditional manner and not with a polyurethane type material. Up to the 1970s the “modern” finishes used were better able to be repaired than later “space-age” polyurethane.

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