• Staining Wood Furniture - Distressing And Quite A Few Other Beneficial Tips To Help Enhance The Overall Look Of The Piece.


    If you've taken a recent stroll through a "normal" furniture store lately (no bare wood furniture in sight), you've possibly observed that most of the more accepted pieces are "weathered" or "distressed." It's the furniture equivalent of "stone washed jeans."

    Unfortunately, since 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 purchasing.

    At this time, most folks who gravitate toward bare wood furniture are independent do-it-yourselfers, and are always on the lookout for suggestions and techniques to help make the results of their hobby much more striking than ever. If you'd like to give your furniture a great, truly random distressed look, this tip might be just what you've been looking for.

    Before you get to the step of staining wood furniture, just take a 3'-4' length of chain and work the furniture over with reasonably hard blows. Not excessively hard, as we don't want to crack anything, but definitely hard enough to leave marks! Distress your bare wood furniture to taste, then sand and stand as normal. The "bruises" and indentations will be differently colored and the overall effect will be a rough, weathered look that is quite appealing.

    If the thought of beating the daylights out of your beautiful piece of bare wood furniture gives you the willies, I'd recommend practicing on a test board, then staining and noting the results, as there's definitely no taking it back once the deed is done!

    And if you're still uneasy about using that recommendation, here is one that may be better to your liking.

    When sanding in preparation for staining wood furniture, sometimes it happens. As you're 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 just 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?

    Fine, you can simply write it off as a "character mark" and have done 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 wholly before proceeding. You may not be able to take the drop of sweat back, but you can reduce its presence with this simple trick.

    These are but two things you can do before or during the process of staining wood furniture to help enhance the overall look of the piece.

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