If you are buying a piece of pine furniture, not only do you need to think about style, what suits your home and cost, but also how you are going to care for your pine furniture. As pine is a natural material full of irregularities and slight defects such as knots. These quirky imperfections make each piece of pine furniture unique and enhance the overall appeal.
Nevertheless, pine furniture also has other minor defects that occur when there are changing in temperature. Therefore, when deciding where to place your pine furniture ensure you avoid any areas of direct sunlight that could result in shrinkage of the wood, or possible cracking and splitting. Pine is a very sensitive material and the first golden room of caring for it is to ensure you maintain an even room temperature at all times.
It is also important not to place a hot or chilled item directly on the wood. This will almost certainly leave deep markings and stain the surface of your new item of furniture.
A further thing to think about when caring for pine furniture is cleaning it. During your weekly house clean it is not advisable to just spray general surface cleaner or polisher. For general cleaning you should just give the surface of the wood a once over with a dry duster, but it you are looking to give it a more intensive clean, it is recommended that you use Murphy oil/soap or lemon oil for your cleaning. These particular products are recommended due to their natural base – pine furniture has a bad habit of reacting badly to any manmade cleaning products so avoid them at all costs.
Another good way to care for your pine furniture and give it a fresh feel is by re-treating the surface from time to time with special wax that is designed for pine.
How To Care For Your Furniture
By NetWords
Sep 10, 2010 - 12:39:21 PM
Sep 10, 2010 - 12:39:21 PM