Bare Wood Furniture - The Significance Of Planning: Some Recommendations To Select The Finest For Your Furniture

So you've taken the plunge and purchased a piece of bare wood furniture. Congratulations! It's an excellent value for the money, and with appropriate 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 grab the first tool and begin to work, it's time to plan! A little investment in time now will save you a great number of problems down the road.

Where bare wood furniture is concerned, you essentially have three choices for finishing the piece, and they're:

Leave the wood "naked"

Paint it

Stain it

Each of these options demands a bit of work on your part to protect your investment and increase the beauty and functionality of the piece.

The simplest thing you can to do "finish" your new piece of bare wood furniture is to leave it in its normal state. If you choose this option, you'll probably desire to protect the wood by coating it in some sort of wood protecting oil (linseed oil is normally used on a wide variety of bare wood), but there are other products available as well. Always, always, always test first by applying a small amount of the oil you selected 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 selected protective oil to the whole piece.

If you decide to paint your bare wood furniture, you have quite a lot to think about, aside from color choosing. Type of paint, for example. If a piece is to be positioned in a bathing room, you will possibly want 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 offer a good balance of attractiveness and durability, and if the piece is planned 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 will have any form of border or scrollwork on your bare wood furniture. If you're not particularly artistically inclined, there are numerous beautiful 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 have got several options. Of course, if you are artistically inclined or know someone who is, a hand painted border is a good method to really personalize the piece!

At last, you might decide to stain your new piece of furniture. This is my personal favorite system of finishing pieces, although it takes the longest, and if this is the direction you wish to go, again, you've got a variety of decisions to make, beginning with the type of stain you'll use. Stains come in oil-based, water-based, or gel, and while my personal preference runs to oil based, you will want to experiment to find out which works best for you. Certainly, you do not wish to experiment directly on your new piece of furniture, so I recommend buying an unfinished wood shelf of the same kind of wood from your local home store and experiment on that. When 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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