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Fast repair for nicks or scratches in wooden flooring and furnishings.

In case you have scratches in your cupboards, wooden flooring or furnishings, this straightforward answer will make them disappear!

These are particularly useful when you’ve got animals that wish to scratch your wooden furnishings. Cat scratches on wooden or marks from canine claws on the flooring will vanish with this trick. 🙂 

Typically I hesitate to share these extra primary “DIYs” or fixes, however then I do them in our house and am reminded that they’re tremendous useful. 

So I am sharing! 🙂 

This can be a fast restore for something wooden in your house that has minor harm — anyplace the place the highest end or stain has nicked off. 

I miss the beautiful flooring in our previous home a lot!: 

And so they have held up fantastically. You pay for that high quality — they’re labor intensive to put in, however so price it! 

In comparison with our present engineered flooring, these have been pristine (and we lived with these for manner longer).

We discover a new scratch or nick in our engineered hardwoods typically. It isn’t too unhealthy…often we do not even discover them till we’re cleansing. 

It is once I’m vacuuming and attempting to choose up what I feel is grime that I see them: 
small hardwood nicks and scratches

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We now have a bunch of little divots in our eating room flooring the place our cat likes to knock stuff off the console. Good occasions. 

The opposite day I attempted to hoover up this flooring harm for the five hundredth time, so I made a decision it was time to deal with these for good. 

In case your furnishings or flooring have minor harm like this, there is no have to sand them down or refinish them. 

Fixing these little imperfections in your hardwood flooring is tremendous straightforward! 

Fixing scratches in wooden flooring. 

There are just a few methods to do that, and probably the most shocking is utilizing a walnut. Walnuts have a pure brown pigment that covers the naked wooden and blends in nicely.

I discover the nut methodology works greatest on lighter to medium coloured hardwoods, so as a substitute I take advantage of these stain markers on our darker flooring: 

Minwax ebony stain marker

They arrive in eight totally different wooden finishes, from gentle to darkish. 

As a result of our flooring have loads of variation and darker spots, I knew the deeper ebony colour would work nice. 

It is actually a marker with stain inside…all you do is colour over the uncovered wooden scratches or nicks: 

stain markers for wood damage

After which wipe it away with a rag or paper towel. 

I like to make use of a humid rag to ensure I get all the extra stain across the scratch. 

I by no means took an after picture of that spot above, so I went again at the moment to take it…however had a tough time discovering the place I crammed in!: 

fixing hardwood damage with stain

This restore labored so nicely, I spent an hour sliding throughout our hardwoods discovering new spots to fill.

Humorous how as I went from room to room I may see the place our cat likes to behave up. 😂 

Our flooring are engineered hardwood within the colour auburn by Diamond Dwelling, however sadly have been discontinued. 

This was particularly nice for the little scratches that occurred when a few of our flooring was put in. 

They’d just a few naked spots alongside the perimeters: 

scratch along hardwood plank

It solely takes just a few seconds to fill them in and wipe up! 

This is one other gaggle of marks within the hardwoods earlier than: 

filling in hardwood nicks

And after the stain filler/marker:

easy fix for hardwood scratches

The darker stain labored nice as a result of it seems to be like a pure spot within the wooden. I would advocate going darker than lighter in case your wooden is in between.

Repair scratches in wooden furnishings.

The classic dresser in our bed room was wanting a little bit beat up. I used to be noticing the wear and tear and tear throughout:

repairing scratches on wood furniture

As a result of this wooden end has loads of darkish variation like our flooring, I knew the darkish stain would mix proper in. 

I could not consider the distinction!: 

I carried the marker round the home in search of spots to fill, however could not discover anymore harm sadly. 😉 

A black Sharpie marker will work for many black furnishings, however you may even see a slight distinction within the sheen. 

This stain marker will conceal imperfections in your flooring, dressers, wooden tabletops, cupboards, stairs and handrails. Something with a wooden end! 

In case you have deeper scratches in your wooden that you simply’d wish to fill in addition to cowl, strive these wood fill blending pencils that is available in the identical stain colours. 

That is such a simple repair and the stain contact ups will maintain up for a lengthy time. 

I did not suppose the little spots on the ground bothered me a lot…till I coated them. Now it is so good to not see these little spots that appeared like crumbs on the ground!

Have you ever used these stain markers in your hardwoods or furnishings?

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