Furniture Re-Finishing
Isle of Wight based French Polishing, Paint Spraying and Furniture re-finishing service offering a re-finishing service for furniture that may be tired, colour faded, worn, surface damaged, lacking harmony or simply just needs refreshing again. If you are considering a new look for a suite of furniture (old or new) I am happy to discuss what I can offer to help you achieve this as effectively and economically as possible.
I undertake the re-finishing of all types of furniture from antique to modern using both traditional (French Polish) and modern hard-wearing spray finishes in both paint & clear lacquer. If you require a paint finish your colour of any brand (Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, Dulux, etc) is mixed into industry standard furniture paint lacquer which is smooth/easy to clean and very long lasting (unlike a lot of paints). This offers a choice of sheen levels from matt through to gloss for around the same cost as store bought diy paint but with the all benefits and refined look of genuine paint lacquer.
Lightening Furniture
It’s possible to lighten furniture using various approaches depending on the type of wood and the existing colour of your furniture. This can involve strong bleaches or maybe pigment staining that can produce a more contemporary look furniture.
Colour Change Job Example: Modern Dark Mahogany tripod table:
(top): Original Dark Mahogany finish, (middle): Post stripping/start of bleach process, (bottom): Result after 2+ bleachings then clear finished.
If bleaching is not possible or practical then use of a light pigment stain under clear lacquer (eg: white/grey) can often shift the appearance of furniture into a colour zone much lighter,
Bleaching or using pigment stains is of course an extra process in a finishing schedule and does add an extra procedure to a job, but ompared to replacing a suite of furniture to obtain a lighter look the cost and result of the process is definitely worth considering.
Finished table (from top of page) with paint lacquered chairs in situ.
Orange Pine Remedies
If you want to change the orange/red colour of Pine and other types of wood there is a way to do this using pigment stains under clear varnish or lacquer.
The result can emulate a stripped pine look or age/bleached look to mute the unwanted warm tones in a way that traditional staining cannot deal with.
The 4 Pine timber samples below show the same wood type spray/fogged with light pigment stains & finished in clear lacquer.
No 1 Weak White Pigment stain, No 2 is an ‘orangey pine’ sample with just a clear finish on it showing what colour the other three pieces were before staining. No 3 and No 4 are oak colored pigment stains on the pine samples. Subtle and able to mask unwanted colour tones the pigment stains can turn around the look of UV/Orange looking furniture.
The picture below shows 2 Pine bedside units with the back of the left one displaying the original pine colour before the process and the right one showing the colour change possible using white pigment stain.
From the Orangey waxed/varnished colour that the client didn’t want to see anymore they now have a contemporary faded/stripped pine look with a matt lacquered high resistance finish. Looking good and with a tough thin finish that should give them many years of service again.
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I’m Sean Jackson and I’ve been involved in wood finishing in one capacity or another for nearly 40 yrs. I’m a sole trader who undertakes the finishing and re-finishing of furniture in both paint and clear lacquer finishes.
I can usually provide estimates for jobs from pictures with descriptions as well as visit your home or premises to view potential jobs. I have zero social media presence as it’s not a place I spend any time so all my information is here in one place.
