Trim in the Dining Room

I wrote this post last November.  But I have to post it before Project November.

The vertical beams had dents and dings, presumably from furniture hitting it. And there is a ton of woodwork in the dining room so redoing every piece would be an enormous project and probably overkill.

Some dings.

So we sanded it down with 120 to get the finish off.

Then we found some stain that was a good match and dabbed it on with a rag.  We needed the wood to soak up a lot of color.  The stain was allowed to dry to the point where it no longer looked super wet, then the excess was removed by a combinations of dabbing and wiping.  It needs to dry for four hours before a coat of polyurethane is applied. 

here is a picture of the sample piece.  I was really happy with how it turned out so we worked on staining the other pieces.

After the original coat of stain, the wood still had some light spots so I would dry rub more stain on to them a little bit every day.

A little bit of varnish and they look really good! I realized that there were many other pieces of the trim and wood work that needed this same treatment.

Continue reading about this project: Project November