In my office I collect goose decoys — old, new, and in between — and fell in love with the pose of this brand new, machine-molded, synthetic material goose. Rather than wait a hundred years for her to acquire some signs of age, I decided to carefully do a little distressing . .
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On my trip back to my parents’ home last month I rescued this 1970s goose my mother once used as a centerpiece on our kitchen table. As you can see, it was a little dirty, so I grabbed my bottle of Minwax® Wood Cabinet Cleaner, a soft cloth, and now . . . .
a much cleaner goose
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If you ever needed a reminder of the silent but deadly damage the sun can do to your furniture, take a look at this leg of an Arts and Crafts settle I just bought. It endured several hours of daily sunlight which slowly but surely broke down the clear finish. I’ll have to refinish
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I was restoring a few antique hammered copper lamps recently, when I discovered two were missing the wooden bottom that prevented the copper base from scratching a desk or table. Fortunately, I had some thin plywood on hand, and discovered that the Pecan version of Minwax® Express
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