How To Repair Veneer On Antique Furniture

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I'thou sharing a new furniture makeover today.  Years ago, I updated a midcentury modern Danish dresser that is at present a credenza in my dining room.  I also made a fun demote for my garage a couple years agone.  Today, I'one thousand showing yous how I turned a set of veneer dressers from trash to treasure!

Final winter, I establish a ready of fine art deco waterfall dressers on Facebook Marketplace for a whopping $65.  If you desire to learn my tips for finding amazing furniture and decor online, brand sure you sign up for my newsletter.  I had been searching for waterfall dressers for a long time, and finally my Facebook stalking paid off 😉  They were in rough shape, and stayed in my garage until this summer.

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I've never attempted to repair damaged veneer before and had to practice some research.  I asked around in hardware stores and one person suggested Howard's Restor-A-Finish.  I got some in Night Walnut, crossed my fingers and got to work!

Prep Work:  I used a super fine sandpaper on the damaged areas.  In some areas, I did the whole side if there were enough scuffs, water stains, and scratches.  Then I took a clean rag and wiped all of the dust off from the sanding I simply did.

Then the magic happened… I grabbed a different clean rag, opened the canteen, put the rag on top and flipped information technology over so the production would absorb into the rag.  I tried it out on a back corner to see how it would take.  And it took beautifully.

I went to boondocks wiping all over the pieces.  I kept adding more product to the rag.  What I noticed was by the end of staining the second slice, it was "covering" the damaged areas then much improve than when I first started.  I figured it was considering my rag was pretty soaked with production, so I went dorsum over the first slice again, and it helped!

Left side, sanded and not washed.  Right side, done.  No joke, this stuff is amazing!

Isn't the left side of the acme of this dresser cute?!

The dressers accept been done for over a month.  There are some spots where I'm tempted to go dorsum in with more product just to eradicate the tiny lilliputian bit of some deeper scratches.  You'll run across more of the dressers in my bedroom reveal coming soon.  Simply I idea this product was too skilful not to share in it's own post.  I tin can't recommend this production enough.  I'm excited to try it on other fixer upper article of furniture items!

Happy DIY'ing!

Source: https://thestripedhouse.com/2019/11/refinishing-veneer-art-deco-waterfall-dresser/

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