Nicks and dings in your furniture?
Here is an inexpensive way to cover up the visible effects of everyday wear and tear on your furniture. Furniture stores have used these techniques for years. If you have wood or wood-looking furniture pieces and have nicks and dings, try to determine what color you think the wood is, i.e. oak, walnut, pecan, etc. Most of the large home improvement stores carry stain pens for touch-up. These touch-up pens come in the same color as the wood stains. If you have a piece of furniture that looks like oak to you, you will be able to find a pen shown as oak.These pens have the same stain you could buy in cans, however these have a felt tip applicator which cuts down on the mess and is convenient to use any time. The ones that I have used suggest shaking them to mix the stain in the pen and then apply to the nick. You will be surprised how much better your pice of furniture will look with such a little effort. What if your furniture is painted instead of stained? Here’s another idea with several applications. Lowes is the only place I’ve seen so far with a display of “Glidden” tester bottles. These are 2 fl. oz. bottles of paint in many different colors with small applicator brushes inside. I guess paint is getting so expensive “Glidden” decided to give the public a way to sample a color cheaply and in the process has given us a way to buy paint to touch-up our painted furniture. So try to determine the color you want to match or take a sample with you and find the color closest to your’s in the tester bottles. There are a lot of different colors so you should be able to get close. Use the brush in the bottle to touch-up the dings in your painted furniture. Again you will be impressed how much better your furniture will look sans nicks and dings.The tester bottles also work great on wood-work as well. We keep a bottle of white around specifically for the purpose of touching-up dings in our baseboards, doors and millwork. If your wood work is stained the touch up pens work great for this purpose as well.