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

Sadly, as 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 buying.

At this time, most folks who gravitate toward bare wood furniture are independent do-it-yourselfers, and are always on the lookout for recommendations and ways to help make the results of their interest much more striking than ever. If you would like to give your furniture a fine, truly random distressed look, this tip could be simply 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 moderately hard blows. Not excessively hard, as we don't want to crack anything, but definitely hard enough to leave marks! Distress your bare wood furniture to check, then sand and stand as typical. The "bruises" and indentations will be differently colored and the overall result will be a rough, weathered look that's quite beautiful.

If the thought of beating the daylights out of your beautiful 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 is definitely no taking it back once the deed is done!

And if you are still uneasy about using that recommendation, here's one that may be better to your liking.

When sanding in preparation for staining wood furniture, sometimes 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 only 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 could simply write it off as a "character mark" and have done with it, but if you'd rather minimize its impact, finish sanding and wipe the piece with a tack cloth. After that, clean the entire piece again, this time with a gently damp rag. Let dry wholly before proceeding. You might not be able to take the drop of sweat back, but you can reduce its presence with this simple 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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