Caring for whitewashed furniture properly
Limed furniture offers a fascinating look and clearly stands out from normal pieces of furniture. Elaborate maintenance is necessary to ensure that these pieces of furniture stay that way.
As beautiful as whitewashed furniture is, it requires special care and attention. Because he can do it pretty quickly lime peel off and then the whole look is gone. In this case, special care can restore the furniture.
Bringing whitewashed furniture to a new shine
In order to maintain the special look of the whitewashed furniture in the long term, you can rub your whitewashed furniture with oil over and over again. This prevents the limescale from peeling off too quickly. However, if it is already so far that limescale has dissolved, then you should proceed as follows:
- You can buy lime in specialist stores, which you can use to re-lime your furniture if there are areas where the lime has peeled off. To ensure that the new lime really stays in place, you can roughen the areas with sandpaper before you put the lime on it.
- Once the newly applied lime has dried, you can add a layer of oil or wax stroke over it. However, you may need to repeat this process more often.
- As an alternative to the oil, you can also apply a thin layer of clear varnish. This increases the shine of the furniture and protects against peeling. However, you have to be careful here that the color of your furniture does not change. If necessary, you have to ask at the specialist store.
- When applying oil or wax, all you have to do is be careful not to rub too hard. Otherwise, limescale could also peel off.
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The daily cleaning of whitewashed furniture is the same as for any other piece of furniture. Here you can wipe away the coarse dirt with a damp cloth.
