Depending on the materials used in the construction of your wardrobe furniture as well as its size, regular cleaning and maintenance can run as short as a few minutes to as long as half a day or a couple of days.
When you got your wardrobe furniture brand new then the only cleaning that you will need in the first few years is the occasional dusting off of any grime or dirt that may have made its way inside the wardrobes. It is a case to case basis but for relatively new furniture you may not even need soap and water.
If you got one from a second hand shop or a garage sale or you bought your wardrobes brand new but many years has passed, no worries as you can make the wardrobes to look good as new especially if it is made from wood. How? You can follow these simple steps:
• Clean the wardrobes by washing it with simple soap and water. Use a soft brush so you will not accidentally scratch or do damage to the wood. Depending on the degree of dirt and grime that has accumulated over the years, you may need to repeat the cleaning and brushing of your wardrobes furniture.
• Once thoroughly clean, you can proceed with the sanding of your wardrobes. It is wise to use fine grit sanding papers and to use gentle hand in sanding. Remember that some woods are more prone to scratching if you use intense sanding pressure.
• Once sanding is finish, and a new wood surface has appeared, your wardrobes furniture is now ready for the application of wood oil.
• Wood oil especially the popular ones like teak oils are good when you are restoring old wooden furniture like wardrobes. And the oil is easy to buy from hardware shops or furniture shops. You need an application of wood oil to your wardrobes so lost wood moisture can be replaced. Again, depending on the age of your wooden wardrobes furniture, you may need several coat of wood oil for best results.
• Once finish and the natural color of the wood appear that may be all what is needed. But some people prefer other stains for their wooden furniture especially if they have a color theme in their bedroom to consider, if you are one of them, you have to let the oil coating dry first before you apply your preferred wood varnish or wood paint to your wardrobes.
You need to take care of your wardrobes furniture regardless of whether or not is it brand new or second hand. It’s a good thing that cleaning and maintaining wooden furniture is easy and you can make any old wooden furniture look spanking new again. Taking care of your furniture like wardrobes may take a bit of your time but you have to do it to make your furniture last longer and to serve you well. The best selling wardrobes are oak wardrobes, these solid wood wardrobes come in varying sizes from single, double and triple door combinations.