Furniture Restoration Demonstration

If you are looking for a method to restore antique finish safety and easily, Howard's Restor-a-Finish may be a perfect product for your project. Howard's products provide a quick fix to antique furniture finish and are easy to use, gentle on your antique furniture

and yield outstanding results. How about a quick free demo?

Yes, the above pictures really are from the same location on a tea cart. Wow! what a difference. Our buyers remorse is gone along with the scratches!

It is really hard to believe how easy antique furniture restoration is with Howard's Restor-a-Finish. We have transformed ugly wood finishes and neglected furniture into pieces that have the look of years of care.

Restor-A-Finish is perfect for restoring luster to kitchen cabinets. It helps break down grease and restores beauty. Then, maintain the finish with feed-n-wax or Natural wood preserver.

Restor-A-Finish can also be used on bathroom cabinets or furniture with water damage marks or heat rings. Removal of heat rings may require more pressure. Refer to our Heat Ring Story for a discussion on how to remove heat rings from furniture.

We've put together a few step by step instructions and demonstration pictures below to show you the entire Howard's restoration process from start to finish.

Begin your project by testing an inconspicuous spot to confirm you are pleased with the results. If you are not satisfied, you can return the product.

This is a picture of the top shelf of a tea cart. As you can tell it has been abused over the years. It is scratched and really looks quite ugly! It has already been wiped off with a soft cloth--this is as good as it gets. Our piece does not have a lacquer finish, but restor-a-finish can be used to restore items with lacquer finish. It is not recommended for painted surfaces.

Assemble the supplies.

1. One Clean Wide Mouth Jar - Clean salsa or peanut butter jars work good. It needs to be large enough that you can easily dip your 0000 steel wool into it with a gloved hand.
2. 0000 Steel Wool - I know it sounds like steel wool will just add to the scratches that we are trying to eliminate; but, it works great. The 0000 steel wool is very fine and doesn't scratch when used gently. A cloth can be used; but, we prefer steel wool results.
3. Refinishing Gloves - Use gloves made for use with furniture refinishing. Restor-a-Finish does not burn if it get's on your skin like some finish removers, it's just best to keep it away from your skin.

4. Restor-a-Finish - Select a color that best matches the finish being restored.

5. Clean Soft Cloth - Pictured later.