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Bare Wood Furniture - The Importance Of Planning: Just A Few Recommendations To Decide The Most Excellent For Your Furniture
So you have taken the plunge and purchased a piece of bare wood furniture. Congrats! It's an excellent value for the money, and with proper care, can last for generations.
Hopefully, before you made the investment, you already had a clear idea what you desired to do with the piece, but if not, then before you pick up the first tool and begin to work, it's time to plan! A bit investment in time now will save you a great number of problems down the road.
Where bare wood furniture is concerned, you essentially have 3 options for finishing the piece, and they are:
Leave the wood "naked"
Paint it
Stain it
Each of these options demands a bit of work on your part in order to protect your investment and increase the beauty and performance of the piece.
The simplest thing you can do is just "finish" your new piece of bare wood furniture is to leave it in its natural state. If you choose this option, you'll probably desire to protect the wood by coating it in some type of wood protecting oil (linseed oil is usually used on a wide variety of bare wood), but there're other products available as well. Always, always, always try out first by applying a small amount of the oil you chose to an unseen corner of the wood to ensure that it won't cause any discoloration or any other reaction in the wood. Once assured of this, you can safely apply your chosen protective oil to the whole piece.
If you choose to paint your bare wood furniture, you have quite many to think about, aside from color selection. Type of paint, for example. If a piece is to be positioned in a bathing room, you'll possibly desire to gravitate toward a glossy paint, as these stand up well to the high moisture environment. For high traffic/heavily used pieces, semi-gloss paints provide a good balance of attractiveness and durability, and if the piece is intended for a lower traffic/lower intensity environment, then flat or satin finishes will serve you well.
Now's also the time to think about whether or not you'll have any form of border or scrollwork on your bare wood furniture. If you are not particularly artistically inclined, there're numerous attractive stencils you can use, readily available at home stores (Lowe's, Home Depot), arts and craft stores (Michael's), and generally at chain retail outlets (Wal-Mart, Target), so you've got several options. Certainly, if you are artistically inclined or know someone who is, a hand painted border is a great method to really personalize the piece!
Finally, you might decide to stain your new piece of furniture. This is my personal favorite system of finishing pieces, even though it takes the longest, and if this is the direction you wish to go, again, you have got a variety of decisions to make, beginning with the type of stain you will use. Stains come in oil-based, water-based, or gel, and while my personal preference runs to oil based, you'll want to experiment to find out which works best for you. Certainly, you don't wish to experiment directly on your new piece of furniture, so I suggest buying an unfinished wood shelf of the same sort of wood from your local home store and experiment on that. Once you make a firm selection, you can proceed with confidence and start working on your bare wood furniture direct.
Make a plan, have fun, and enjoy your new piece of bare wood furniture, regardless of how you choose to finish it!
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