Cleaning Up a Precious Wooden Surface

When to use wax, oil or other wooden surface protectants for precious wooden surfaces. One of the most common errors people make when restoring wooden objects is to fail to determine precisely what they want to achieve with the restoration. For each level of restoration, whether it is a full restoration, a thorough clean-up, or […]

Stripping Methods for Wooden Furniture and Antiques

Depending on the finish you want to achieve and the original coating of the item,  Refurbishment or Full Restoration? Refurbishment is the process of removing the original coating, whether lacquer, beeswax, oil, or shellac, and re-applying a new finishing coat to give your furniture luminosity. By comparison, a full restoration is to remove coatings and […]

Mahogany Indonesian Chairs

These two upright-designed high-armed chairs originated in Indonesia and are made from a beautiful red-brown mahogany species closely related to Sapelle Mahogany. The design is elegant but the manufacturer’s finishing process left them rather rough around the edges.Grind marks where the manufacturer smoothed the surface using a grinder instead of a sander appeared all over […]

Cane can be restored

These elegant cane chairs were quite badly worn on the arms with the original protective coating broken down through years of use allowing the raw cane beneath to stain in patches. Our client was keen to completely restore these beauties so EARTHWOOD painstakingly stripped and sanded each cane back to its original natural state. We […]

American Oak Roll-top Desk

This lovely American Oak roll-top desk was imported in a rather dishevelled state from the US. EARTHWOOD picked up all the pieces and put it back together again just like Humpty-Dumpty. We then touched this beautiful piece of furniture up all-over where it was necessary and brought it back to its original condition including getting […]