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Recently I acquired some antique fine wood furniture all in dreadful condition. Mainly it needed a good cleaning and oiling. The reason I am posting this is to share a bit of experience with you and hope it helps if you find yourself in this situation. Once cleaned with Murphy's Wood Soap I touched up nics with scratch wax and other products and oiled it very well over several days. I rubbed in the oil each morning. The furniture came to life as I remember it in my youth. The one problem that remained was a dreadful smell in this walnut china cabinet (150 years old with original glass), and a maple bed room suite from the 1940's (vanity table, two bombs, a king size head board and a chair for the vanity). I got the bright idea to take some cotton swabs and place a drop of essential oil on each end, place one in each drawer or shelf. I used Absolute Rose on one side and Lavender on the other side of the cotton swab. It has been a week now and the experiment seems to have worked well. My new antique furnature not only looks wonderful but smells so much fresher. I have since found out that I could have added the pure essential oil to the oil I used to finish off my new antiques tho my method worked incrediably well. The lavender adds a fresh note to the room and the rose for me is just heavenly as it reminds me of the rose garden I left behind at my former home.........

thanks for listening

byz

real helpful this one byz.

in my younger days I managed to build a bedroom cabinet for all my clothes and with some success too .stained it with linseed oil and varnished it several times . one of the very few items I have of those day .

when we shifted to a new house when married we found no carpets on any floors just tacks ! so little ol' me got stuck in [with 2 toddlers ], and uplifted a houseful of tacks then as it looked so good with nothing to tear our feet I decided to stain our bedroom floor. they went elsewhere so I had free rein of the room so ended up with linseed oil again on a huge floor .staining & mopping as I went all the excess . and after 3 days of that I took to varnishing . My hubby was away at sea then, so it was ok for me to sleep in the lounge . kids had their beds ;so in the morning after they'd been fed I started again on the floor . probably the only real thing I ever did finish apart from wallpapering a house and painting it too . just wish that I'd had access to essential oils then . would have stayed there forever . I have a little scope here .. the kitchen floor needs redoing . so perhaps I may take to staining again . [waterproofing ] and essential oils too [ makes for a nice kitchen atmosphere eg: lavender ] nice and restful.

but how do you get the lino thats stuck on the floor up without too much cost ? some is up already but not where I would like it . it's in the corners of the kitchen door and where the fridge is in one other corner . the stove has made it terrible so I have holes there so daren't shift it until I get the right stuff to take it all up. ps . it was like this years ago when we first moved in . covered in carpet ! a kitchen !!!!... what were they trying to hide ? I know now . what a job I have though ByzantineQ. where would you start ?

No holes in the floors here in my flat , but

the floor is very much uneven . In the pantry it

slopes from left front to back right but runs

opposite in the adjoining laundry .

so fridge is propped up by a placemat in left front

and my washer is propped up by platter in right front

and the adjoining room [ bathroom] to laundry is warped

from middle and runs from one side to other as a test by a

marble runs in all directions.!!?

and the gaps are in the doorframes . not fitting the doors !

all doors are ill fitting . none are really great at opening in a hurry

so have to leave them open even when I have visitors.

windows however are ok . just wear and tear on the hinges .

well that's my gripe about the dwelling I live in ,except when

I moved in I had to fix the roof though ! leaks in the stovetop

thru the vent in the roof . BUT hurray for gladwrap !

saved me from geting electrocuted .I had to put it all over the stove.

now I just have to get my venetians fixed. --got drapes tho. !

[

prevous tenant had a cat that was allowed thru the window ]

thus venetians got broke .

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