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You should try furniture restoration before thinking of complete refinishing. Many times the bad appearance of a finish is due to a build up of wax, polish and dust. Every time a piece of furniture is dusted, using a spray polish, liquid polish or wax, a small amount of dust is mixed with the polish or wax.

If there are carvings, indented panels, raised panels, embossing or any other types of nooks and crannies the polish/dust combination is pushed in to make a quite deep accumulation, which over time will cloud the finish, diminish the appearance of the grain pattern and just a general appearance of not quite right.

The first step in furniture restoration is cleaning. This type of cleaning could be considered the same as spring cleaning your house. Although your furniture is clean, there is a residue left from typical average daily cleaning and generally the average supplies won't do the necessary job to remove the residue.

There are several tools that are handy to keep around for the periodical job of buildup removal and general furniture restoration.
# Furniture cleaner
# 0000 Steel wool
# Toothbrush
# Pencil size dowel, sharpened, for corner and crevass cleaning
# Soft cloth (cheesecloth works good)
# Small Paintbrush (1 inch)
# Paper Towels
# Anything else that will work that won't damage your furniture
# Metal container with metal lid.

You will need something to dissolve old wax and polish so that it can be easily removed. Many concoctions have been mixed to work as a cleaner, through the years, some work and some don't. Lots of build up on antiques are due to home made cleaners that didn't quite do the job. Many people suggest paint thinner. It will dissolve wax and polish, but leaves a whitesh residue of it's own which needs to be cleaned off.

The easiest way to do the job is with a good commercial furniture restoration product designed for the job.

A toothbrush is one of the handiest tools you can find for removing things you don't want from cracks and crevasses, carvings and embossings, or any other irregular surface.

A soft bristle toothbrush is better to use, as a stiff bristle brush could scratch the finish.

If a finish is fragile, rubbing with a toothbrush too much can make it even more fragile, so you can get out your trusty dowel sharpened with a pencil sharpener when you have indented areas to clean out. The sharp point of the dowel can gouge if it's dry so be very careful. With care the sharpened dowel can remove gluck from even the most delicate carvings. The sharp point will soften as it gets soaked with cleaner, so keep your pencil sharpener handy.

Furniture restoration is enjoyable and beneficial and should always be done in a safe manner.

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