If you've have a recent stroll through a "normal" furniture store lately (no bare wood furniture in sight), you have possibly observed that many of the more admired pieces are "weathered" or "distressed." It's the furniture equivalent of "stone washed jeans."

Sadly, since the distressing is done via machine, there's always a discernable pattern found in it, and this, in my mind, makes it almost certainly not worth purchasing.

At the present, majority of the folks who gravitate toward bare wood furniture are independent do-it-yourselfers, and are always on the lookout for advice and techniques to help make the results of their interest much more striking than ever. If you'd like to give your furniture a nice, really random distressed look, this tip could be just what you've been seeking.

Before you get to the step of staining wood furniture, just take a 3'-4' length of chain and work the furniture over with reasonably hard blows. Not too hard, as we do not want to crack anything, but definitely hard enough to leave marks! Distress your bare wood furniture to check, then sand and stand as normal. The "bruises" and indentations will be differently colored and the overall result will be a rough, weathered look that is quite attractive.

If the thought of beating the daylights out of your attractive piece of bare wood furniture gives you the willies, I'd recommend working on a test board, then staining and noting the results, as there's definitely no taking it back once the deed is done!

And if you are still uneasy about using that recommendation, here is one that may be more to your liking.

When sanding in preparation for staining wood furniture, often it happens. As you're bent over the wood, that bead of sweat that was building up on your forehead decides it is no longer content there, and splat! Right onto the wood. If you just stain it at this point, you'll have a watermark where the stain reacts noticeably differently to that spot of the wood, so what to do?

Fine, you can just write it off as a "character mark" and do with it, but if you'd rather minimize its impact, finish sanding and wipe the piece with a tack cloth. After that, wipe the entire piece again, this time with a gently damp rag. Let dry wholly before proceeding. You may not be able to take the drop of sweat back, but you can minimize its presence with this easy trick.

These are but two things you can do before or during the process of staining wood furniture to help enrich the overall look of the piece.

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