 How To Care For And Clean Your Wood Furniture
Using wood furniture as the anchor for your room's decor is the quickest way to bring a sense of warmth and elegance to your home. However, it is inevitable that accidents will happen and your furniture will be damaged.
Damage to your wood furniture tends to fall into the following areas
- Stains - water, alcohol, milk
- Scratches
- Burns
- Glass Rings
To treat alcohol stains on your wood furniture - any substance containing alcohol like drinks, medicines and cosmetics can eat through a wood finish rapidly. Immediately after a spill, grab a cloth and moisten it with lemon oil. Rub the spot with the cloth.
If milk is spilled on your wood furniture, dampen cloth with ammonia or silver polish and rub the affected area. Wipe dry with clean cloth.
Conceal marks on dark cherry or mahogany wooden furnishings - rub spot with a cotton ball dipped in iodine.
Hide scrapes on unshellacked maple or light cherry wooden furnishings - rub area with a cotton swab drizzled with iodine diluted 50% with denatured alcohol.
Darken a scratch on wood furniture - scoop out the meat of a walnut and rub it softly on the scratch. Be sure to rub it directly on top of the scratch.
To remove scratches from oil finishes on wood furniture. You'll need light mineral oil or linseed oil and fine steel wool. Use the steel wool to rub the oil into the wood in the direction of the grain. Allow the oil to soak into the wood and then wipe the area with a dry cloth.
To deal with burns on wood furniture, get some finely powdered pumice stone (try the hardware store or a woodworking retailer) and mix it with some linseed oil. Use a soft cloth to rub this paste into the burn in the direction of the grain. repeat until burnt spot disappears.
To remove glass rings from wood furniture, rub with a mixture of mayonnaise and white toothpaste. Wipe it dry with a clean cloth and then polish the whole surface.
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