Furniture Care After Refinishing: How to Keep Your Finish Looking Great You’ve done the hard part. The furniture has been cleaned, repaired, sanded, painted or stained, protected, reassembled, and moved back into the house. Now the goal is pretty simple: Keep it looking that way. A properly refinished piece of furniture can hold up beautifully for years, but even a durable finish benefits from a little care. At Brickhouse & Baron, we like to remind people that refinished furniture should...

Finishing & Reassembly: The Final Steps of a Furniture Refinish At this point, most of the hard work is behind you. The furniture has been cleaned. Repaired. Sanded. Primed. Painted or stained. Protected. Now comes one of the most satisfying stages of the entire refinishing process: Putting everything back together. This sounds simple, but there’s still plenty that can go wrong if you rush it. Fresh paint can get scratched. Hardware can chip the finish. Drawers that worked perfectly before...

Professional Refinishing Techniques: How to Work Cleaner, Faster, and More Consistently Once you’ve refinished a few pieces of furniture, something starts to change. You stop thinking about just one dresser. You start thinking about the process. How long did prep take? How much paint did you waste? Why did one side spray perfectly while the other side came out rough? Could two pieces have been primed at the same time? Could the drawers have dried somewhere else instead of taking over the...