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Refinishing Wood Furniture |
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If I had known that I would create a website like this, I would have taken before and anfer pictures of the furniture I have refinished. The dresser is a before and after, and the child's rocker is my current project. I will try to take some photos of other finished projects to put on this page soon.
I consider these my summer projects, and work on them for a couple of hours every Saturday. I usually do one piece per summer, and I even got my mother interested in doing a dresser and some kitchen chairs. |
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I prefer to use Strip-Eze brand stripper, since I found it works the best. After all of the varnish and stain are removed with the stripper, I sand down the whole piece, and although I've tried painting a few pieces, I prefer to use a stain and polyurethane to keep the wood look and put a protective topcoat on. |
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For my 2006 project, I volunteered to refinish a big round table from the library. |
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The top was pitted and scratched, so I borrowed my brother's heavy duty sander to smooth it all out. |
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Stay tuned for the finished table |
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I volunteered to refinish a podium for the library in 2005. It was a very easy peice to do, and it turned out nicely. |
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These two pictures are before I refinished the podium |
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This little telephone stand was stripped down, and my husband thought it should have been left like this, but I am so used to using stain, I did it anyway. |
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So, I guess he was right. I still like it, but it would have looked better with just a coat of polyerathane over the natural wook. |
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This 2004 project took me two years to complete. I had to sand all of this white paint off because Strip-Eze will not touch it. I think it is painted with Teflon. LOL. |
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In the summer of 2005, I finally finished this project, and it turned out better than I'd hoped. |
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These are before pictures of my summer 2003 project. |
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This is what the children's rocking chair looked like after I was done. It was given as a baby shower gift to my nephew. |
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