Came Across this article from Fast Company: NOW AVAILABLE FROM WEST ELM, STIKWOOD PANELS ARE ULTRATHIN PLANKS THAT USE LESS ENERGY AND MATERIAL THAN ORDINARY RECLAIMED WOOD. “I love the smell of wood. The feel of wood. I love everything about wood,” Jerry McCall says. “But I’ve always been a bit upset about …
Category: Wood Menders Update
Recent Furniture Repair Projects
Here are some of the recent repair & refinishing projects we have been working on at Wood Menders: Have you checked out our 2 hour Furniture Repair & Refinishing Class? Check out the schedule here: www.woodmenders.com/classes Until next time – Dan Kaufman
Repair Tips for Your Wood Furniture
Everybody knows that the best parties end up with a ring on the coffee table or a cigarette burn on the dining room table, but you can shrug off these little party mishaps with a smile when you know the secrets to quick household fixes. The following tips will help you easily repair small accidents …
Keep Your Cats from Destroying Your Furniture
From the folks over at Life Hacker – a great article on keeping your cats from destroying your furniture (we do a lot of pet damage throughout the year) Scratching is a natural behavior for our feline friends, and furniture is a tempting target for their fabric-shredding claws. Save your furniture …
More about repairing scratches on your furniture
Here is another tip on how to take care of scratches on your furniture. Where many shallow scratches are present, apply hard paste wax to the surface with No. 0000 steel wool, stroking very lightly along the grain of the wood. Then buff the surface with a soft cloth. For shallow scratches on an otherwise …
Recent Furniture Repair Projects
Here are some of the recent projects that we have been working on. Until Next Time – Dan Kaufman
Taking Care of Scratches on Your Furniture
When that heartbreaking first ding or scratch appears on your new furniture, the marks left behind are especially obvious if the stain is scraped off and the lighter wood beneath it is revealed. Let’s face it – furniture is meant to be used, not just sit there collecting dust. But the downside if you are …