Cleaning & Care
Cleaning our finish is simple as our finish is ‘water resistant.’ Use water, with dish soap if needed, applied by a soft rag, wiped with the grain if possible. Follow with a dry rag to absorb excess water, grime, or crumb - once again, with the grain. If something stronger than dish soap and elbow grease is needed, a degreaser like 409 or Fanstik is safe and should be the most that’s ever needed.
Water Resistant
No finish is 'water proof.' If water or any liquid is left on pieces overnight, it will ruin the finish. Our custom finish is 'water resistant,' meaning it can handle a spill no problem, and even handle liquid left on it for a 'reasonable amount of time' - like over the course of a meal. Surfaces should be dried after any spill, and certainly overnight.
Never USE
Anything Nail Polish Related
Art Projects
Write on a single piece of paper. Use a magazine, backing, or stack of paper to write on.
Pledge
Endust
Essential Oils
Common daily Use
When writing on the table, something should be between the paper and the finish, or the pressure of the pen will transfer and imprint on the finish, a magazine or a few sheets of paper is generally enough. Never do your nails over our finish unless you take time to thoroughly protect the surface with something thick enough to absorb drips or stop liquid bleed through. Same with ‘art projects.’
Heat
No finish is heat resistant. Tea, coffee, and the like should be kept on coasters to keep the heated liquid and moisture away from the finish. We recommend wood with felt on the bottom or cork coasters. Heat damage effects the moisture in the finish and will leave a fog or white ring in the areas effected.
Use your furniture.
We are realists, and we enjoy our own furniture. You should too. Don’t live in a museum. No finish is impervious to aging, use and abuse. Furniture in our homes and workspaces are there as functional energetic parts of our daily lives. Using them adds to that energy, builds more memories, and through osmosis - we transfer a small amount of ourselves into them. This is a big part of why refinishing can be exciting, you know what works in your space, your life, and how you use it. Breath new life into it. Use and enjoyment inevitably leads to refinishing or replacing. Live dirty, mess things up, and even if you ‘ruin’ a piece, we can probably still fix it and make it livable/usable again. Like a new car, a freshly finished piece should receive its first ‘wound,’ er… bit of character from you.
