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Staining Wood Furniture - Distressing And Some Other Beneficial Suggestions To Help Enhance The Overall Look Of The Piece.
If you've taken a recent stroll through a "ordinary" furniture shop lately (no bare wood furniture in sight), you've possibly observed that many of the more popular items are "weathered" or "distressed." It's the furniture equivalent of "stone washed jeans."
Unluckily, because the distressing is done via machine, there's always a discernable pattern to be found in it, and this, in my mind, makes it almost certainly not worth buying.
At this time, majority of the people who gravitate toward bare wood furniture are independent do-it-yourselfers, and are always on the lookout for recommendations and techniques to assist make the results of their interest even more striking than ever. If you would like to give your furniture a great, really random distressed look, this tip could be just what you have been seeking.
Before you get to the step of staining wood furniture, just take a 3'-4' length of chain and work the furniture over with moderately hard blows. Not excessively hard, as we do not wish to crack anything, but definitely hard enough to leave marks! Distress your bare wood furniture to taste, then sand and stand as typical. The "bruises" and indentations will be differently colored and the in general result will be a rugged, weathered look that's quite attractive.
If the thought of beating the daylights out of your attractive piece of bare wood furniture gives you the willies, I would suggest working on a test board, then staining and noting the results, as there is definitely no taking it back once the deed is done!
And if you're still uneasy about using that tip, here is one that may be more to your liking.
When sanding in preparation for staining wood furniture, sometimes it happens. As you are bent over the wood, that bead of sweat that was building up on your forehead decides it's no longer content there, and splat! Right onto the wood. If you only stain it at this point, you'll have a watermark where the stain reacts evidently differently to that spot of the wood, so what to do?
Well, you can simply write it off as a "character mark" and do with it, but if you'd rather minimize its impact, finish sanding and wipe the piece with a tack cloth. Then, wipe the entire piece again, this time with a lightly damp rag. Let dry completely before proceeding. You may not be able to take the drop of sweat back, but you can reduce its presence with this easy trick.
These are but 2 things you can do before or during the process of staining wood furniture to aid enrich the overall look of the piece.
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