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I’m sure you have in your attic or in your garage some old furniture, maybe a table, an armchair or a wardrobe. They look so pathetic, so you think it’s time to throw them away. Don’t do it. You don’t have any idea how precious these can be if you know how to restore them.

In this article, we will give you some simple restoration techniques to revive your old wooden furniture.

For this job you need:

• Belt/disks sander
• Sandpaper
• Solvent
• Wood stain
• Lacquer
• Paintbrushes.

Let’s say you have an old wooden table.

First step is to disassemble it in its parts.

Second step is to clean out the old coat of finish that covers the wood.

To take off the old finish coat we will use sandpaper. Sandpaper or glasspaper, is a heavy paper with abrasive material bonded to its surface. On the flat surfaces you can use the sander and for the corners or edges sheets of sandpaper.

Try to take off as much as possible of the old finish that covers the wood. Use for this rough sandpaper. When you think you have brought the wood to its natural condition, check if there are faults as scratches or cracks. Then, with fine sandpaper try to smooth the surfaces. To be sure there are no old spots, use solvent to degrease the wood.

Third step is to apply a coat of stain. It will protect the wood against the weather action and against the mold. The wood must be dry, clean and degrease. The wood stain must be applied in tow coats. Its drying time depends by wood’s porosity, ambient temperature and humidity. It will highlight the natural beauty of the wood, it will give decorative finish and it will accentuate the texture of the wood.

Many of us are often having a hard time to fix or clean the garage because most of them are full of chemicals, tools, old furniture, and other heavy stuff. If we check on each garage over the neighborhood, we can see cans, boxes, plastic containers, tools, old sofa bed, and so on lying on the floor or leaning on the wall. They are often unorganized and create more thrash than we think. In this regard, to clean the garage is not an easy task. Well, that maybe the case, we still need to fix or clean them properly to avoid any pests at home. Below are some of the most basic, yet helpful way on how to do it.

1. We need to remove the car first. Clean and organize one side at a time.

2. Make sure to organize each of the things that are in the garage. For old newspapers and magazines, we can put them on a large plastic box or we can put them on a plastic bag so that we can bring them later to a recycling company.

3. Make sure that we categorize them according to their classification just like plastics, tin cans, paints, papers, old furniture, and so on. By doing so, we can easily determine which things should go to the thrash can, and those things that still have value.

4. After putting them all on a side, start cleaning the ceiling followed by the wall and then the floor.

5. Carry the stuff that we have organized a while back and properly put them on the cleaned area or cleaned part of the garage.

6. Before we put some stuff on the cleaned area, we need to check carefully if we still need them or not. We should put them away in a garbage bag.