| Project by Eklectic | posted 04-29-2008 05:14 PM | 2359 views | 0 times favorited | 7 comments |  |
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Before he got married, my father bought a whole set of bedroom furniture in maple!
60 years later and 7 kids who used said furniture, it is going back in his room!
It has been painted, and painted …
I forgot to take before pictures, but these 2 book cases (future project) give you and idea of what they looked like a week ago:
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and this is the first dresser:
and the second
I used the Circa product, with medium steel wool for the heavy removal and then works my way down to 000
and wiped them with a rag and a bit of the stripping product.
I started using the rag as last step a few years ago and I find that it picks up a lot of the stain that might still be in the wood and seems to even it out.
For varnish I used the Circa Wood Paste Varnish.
-- Eklectic,Follow Your Bliss!!
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Joey
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posted 04-29-2008 07:56 PM
Very nice. Its nice to see the wood again. I strip a lot of furniture so I know how much work you put in to refinishing them and you did a very nice job.
-- Joey ~~ Sabina, Ohio http://sleepydogwoodworking.wordpress.com/
MRTRIM
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posted 04-29-2008 09:10 PM
very nice the wood is way better than paint
tenontim
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posted 04-30-2008 01:56 AM
Looks like new. Nice job.
-- Tim
Eklectic
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posted 04-30-2008 01:13 PM
Thanks you all for the nice words! Joe,
You mention that you do a lot of furniture stripping. Do you sand it down or use chemicals?
MRTRIM
I agree completely!
tenontim
I does look like new: actually was told it looks almost better than it was!!!
-- Eklectic,Follow Your Bliss!!
PaBull
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posted 05-26-2008 08:47 AM
Wow, very nice.
The last time I did a refinish, I brought the dresser away for the stripping part.
EllaSquires
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posted 09-23-2017 03:06 AM
Can you sale this family furniture, I need a book rank because my daughter is love to reading books. You can view my daughter books collection here https://www.essayuniverse.net/essaymama-review/ she is read all of these books.
Kaitlyn
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posted 05-30-2020 09:31 AM
I like the family furniture design you have shared here. Even though it is an old design it is really compact and good. I think many things can be stored in this so it helps in creating more space in the home. Thanks for the design and it is really interesting the page here