5 best ways to clean wooden furniture.

We wish to have wooden furniture in our homes that gives a royal and vintage look, but maintaining it is the actual game.

As furniture is exposed to an open environment, it obviously gets exposed to dust.

Do you wish to know how to clean wooden furniture?

Do you wish to keep your wooden furniture look like new always?

Would you like to renew your wooden furniture without having to spend more?

If yes, then you are in the right place. A small research on this topic to make it easy for you to clean wooden furniture.

Ways to Clean wooden furniture

1. General day by day cleaning
2. For wood carvings and doors
3. For Polished look
4. To remove oil strain.
5. Things to consider regarding wooden furniture.

General day by day cleaning

It’s always advisable to clean wooden furniture at frequent intervals. You can do it yourself by,

• First, Clean the area with a wet cloth and then wipe it with a dry cloth
• Second weekly, once use a bit of coconut oil to maintain the polished look always.
• Read the last paragraph to know some things to consider and follow the same

For wood carvings and doors

It’s not a great deal to clean wooden furniture, but if it’s with deep carvings and designs, then it is quite difficult. I tried to make it simple. Follow the below steps and complete your work easily. 

Things needed to clean wooden furniture with carvings

1.Brush (shoe polish brush or something like that)

2. Coconut oil

3. Cotton cloth

4. Toothbrush

Steps to be followed to clean wooden furniture with carvings:

• Brush the entire furniture using a shoe brush with soft bristles. Try to cover the entire area.

• Apply coconut oil in a toothbrush and with that brush apply oil to every part of the wood carvings and curves.

• Cover the shoe brush with a cotton cloth, and with that, rub the entire area. This will help to remove dust and excess oil content.

For Polished look

We always wish to keep our furniture new. The below steps may guide you in that aspect.

Things needed to clean wooden furniture and make it look like polished:

1. Pan

2. Tea powder

3. Coconut oil

4. Cup

5. Cotton cloth

6. Camphor

Steps to be followed

Step 1. Take a pan and heat the pan.

Step 2. Once the pan hot enough, add coconut oil to the pan and heat it. 

Step 3. Add tea powder to that. For one cup of oil add ¾ th cup of tea powder.

Step 4. Wait for it to deep fry

Step 6. Add some camphor after switching off the stove.

Step 7. Leave it for sometime. Now your cleaning solution is ready.

Step 8. Take a cloth, dip it in the solution

Step 9. Rub the whole furniture with that cloth

Step 10. Use it in every part to give a polished look 

To remove oil strain.

If the furniture is oily, it gives a dirty look, and it’s harder to clean wooden furniture. It is really horrible to see the clumsy look everywhere on the wooden furniture. After failing over several times, finally I reached to a solution.

Things needed to clean the wooden furniture with oil strain

1. Rice flour

2. Water

3. Soap oil

4. Dish wash soft brush

5. Cloth

6. Wet cloth

Steps to clean the wooden furniture with oil strain

1. Take rice flour (it helps to absorb the oil strain and makes the process easy)

2. Mix water with the rice flour in paste consistency

3. Dip a brush in that paste and thoroughly rub the area you wish to clean.

4. After applying it thoroughly, clean it with a wet cloth.

5. Now, take some soap liquid.

6. With that soap liquid clean the area again with a help of a brush

7. Then again wipe it off with a wet cloth.

8. Now the area will be super clean

9. Ensure not to add more water as it may spoil the wooden furniture.

Cleaning antique wooden furniture:

Mineral spirit wash is preferable to clean this type of wooden furniture. Mineral spirits are simply known as paint thinner. It removes the stubborn specks of dust and 

You can buy thinner from local hardware stores. You can also find it online. 

Don’t worry, it’s not expensive. 

The steps to follow are:

• Dip a clean and absorbent cloth in the mineral spirit.
• Then wipe it in the area you need to clean.
• Add more mineral spirit as and when needed to the cloth and repeat the process.
• For portions with carvings and deep areas, use a toothbrush.
• Don’t use strong mineral spirits, which may even remove the finishing.

Things to consider regarding wooden furniture.

1. Don’t expose the wooden furniture to sunlight.

2. Scratch on wooden furniture is hard to heal, so avoid sharp objects near the furniture.

3. Oil the furniture or wax it regularly.

4. Be careful about the aging characteristics of the wood before buying an item of wooden furniture. Some furniture may turn dark and some may turn lighter by age. So, choose as per your wish.

5. Dust it well and maintain it properly.

6. Don’t place the hot utensils directly on the table. Keep the furniture away from fire.

7. Wax again whenever needed.

8. In cleaning, you should not soak the furniture in water. Clean it with a wet towel as mentioned in the blog. 

Final note :

I hope this blog was useful to you. Consider the eight points. If you need to clean wooden furniture, choose the way I mentioned above which matches your needs. I hope you have got an idea to clean wooden furniture.

There are many liquids available in the market. If you can afford them, then you can directly purchase and use them as per the product’s direction to use.

If you know of any other method, feel free to comment. If you like this blog, share it with your friends and family who may need this.