Furniture Re-finishing 101

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Refinishing furniture in your New York apartment is not for the faint of heart. Two tarps, 6 quarts of stripper, 4 million dead brain cells, one angry landlord, and several very hot and sweaty days later, the furniture is done. It came out much better than I expected and we are proud of the results.

Sheena bought the furniture a couple of years ago and had always wanted to refinish it. It was designed in the 50's or 60's and painted with white enamel and adorned with dainty hardware and gold colored trim. Despite being very solidly built, the original finish was beginning to chip and yellow with age.

It took us a while to decide what we wanted the furniture to look like. At first, Sheena and I discussed painting the furniture a dark blue, but I was somewhat concerned about there being too much blue in our bedroom and she agreed. We settled on a beautiful dark mahogany stain.

With only two weeks to pull this off, we had to move everything in Sheena's old apartment, sans the bedroom furniture, into the new apartment and lay down tarps in her old bedroom in order to strip, sand and finish the furniture. We started with a chemical stripper and eventually sanded all of the surfaces with 120 and 220 grit sandpaper.

Unfortunately we chose a product that combined the stain and the polyurethane. If I refinish furniture again, I will stain the furniture first and polyurethane it after I've evened out the color. The combination product left streaks and made it difficult to get an even finish. Here are some pictures of the before, during, and after.

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	AskSam at 07/01/2008 01:25 PM

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	heldy14 at 07/01/2008 01:47 PM

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