Earth-friendly fixes for your everyday wood antique furniture

Daily and even occasional use can leave its mark on wood furniture. Here are a few easy hacks to keep it looking its best 

Daily and even occasional use can leave its mark on your wood furniture. Picture: iStock

The slings and arrows of daily and even occasional use or misuse can leave its mark on your antique and even younger wood furniture. Here are a few hacks and easy skills to get them back to lightly distressed beauty.

Small, pellet-sized holes from old (inactive) woodworm and diminutive cracks can be either left alone or filled. If you just leave these smalls dings and divots, they will level up with your wax polish and will soften, making them less apparent. Some people prefer this honest history. However, it’s relatively simple to fix them up yourself — useful if there’s a break in a hard finish like lacquer. The key thing is colour match, as "brown" has so many variations and we want to get as close to that surface colour as possible.