Restoring bleached furniture
 

Can anyone recommend an easy way to restore the colour in wooden
furniture that has been bleached by the sun?

On 27 Jun 2005 06:10:16 -0700, wrote:

Can anyone recommend an easy way to restore the colour in wooden
furniture that has been bleached by the sun?

What's the timber and what's the finish ? Is this colour in the timber,
or was it applied later ?

There's probably nothing that will "restore" the old colour (for sun
bleaching), it's a question of applying a new colour over the top of it.

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Can anyone recommend an easy way to restore the colour in wooden
furniture that has been bleached by the sun?


Just use wood dye. I take it you don't mean that it has turned silver? AFAIK
the only way to stop a weathered wooden surface looking silver is to sand
it back to unweathered wood.

Andy.

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Can anyone recommend an easy way to restore the colour in wooden
furniture that has been bleached by the sun?


It has just occurred to mean that you mean indoor furniture. In that case,
if there is no varnish involved, perhaps oiling the furniture with Danish
Oil
might work. Try it on a small area. Other than that wood dye is all I can
think of.

Andy.

I've got a lot of plain 'open' wood, mainly just Pine. I use the cheapest
oil I can find which has been Mangers Teak Oil from B & Q. It adds very
little colour to the wood. It doesn't stink the house out for a day. I've
also used a plant sprayer to apply it to old roof timbers. Cover you mouth
if you are spraying it.


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