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Finishing, refinishing, painting, identifying and anything else having to do with woodworking and wood furniture.
One of the best ways to save money on solid wood furniture, and make sure it perfectly matches your decor and other wood pieces in your home, is to buy unfinished furniture and then stain or paint it yourself. This actually saves you a good deal of costs, allows you to pick the exact...
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About a month ago my wife picked up a little toddler-sized oak rocking chair at a yard sale for $3.00 and brought it home for our son who is about to turn one year old. The chair looked as though it had been left out in a rain once or twice or at the...
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After months of on and off paint stripping, sanding and repairs I was finally ready to apply a proper wood finish to 80-year-old dress look like something. Even bare it looked about a hundred times better than it did painted and the maple had such a wonderful natural shine to it that I strongly...
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After sanding the dresser to the point where it was about ready to begin the stain and finish I decided to take a detour from the refinishing and started to repair the dresser so that it was a decent piece of furniture again. This was an unplanned step when I first began, but the...
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Please see How to Refinish A Dresser – Part 2 – Stripping Old Paint. The most important lesson I learned when sanding hardwood furniture is to take your time and be patient.
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My first real action step in refinishing my wife’s 80 year old dresser was stripping the layers paint off the wood that had been applied in the past. At first I was afraid a commercial paint solvent would hurt the wood, but scraping and scratching with a wire brush got me pretty much nowhere....
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One of the most rewarding and most time consuming home repairs I’ve ever accomplished was refinishing an 80 year old clothes dresser that my wife’s father used when he was a little boy. For the longest time this heavy wooden dresser was painted with several thick coats of white paint and used for storage...
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When I was refinishing an 80 year-old dresser one of the first things I did as I started to remove the paint was try to identify what type of wood it was made out of. I really only had a couple options based on the piece’s time period and style, but I didn’t really...
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