My neighbor's 'distressed' oak table went from looking like it survived a war to a museum piece in about 3 weeks.

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Survived a war" to "museum piece" in three weeks? That's insane. I tried to fix a scratch on my own coffee table once and made it look way worse. The whole top looked like a cloudy mess. I can't even imagine fixing a whole table that's beat up. What did they even do, work on it every single day?

the_hayden1mo ago

That neighbor has serious patience.

morgan_stone331mo ago

Seriously, I just put on headphones with some loud music. Blocking out the noise was the only thing that kept me sane last time. It's a simple fix but it works.

theacooper12d ago

Oh goodness, that reminds me of a friend I had years ago. She found this old rocking chair at a garage sale, it looked like it had been left out in the rain for a decade. The varnish was peeling off and there were even a few small cracks in the wood. She decided to take it on as a project, spent about two full weekends just sanding it down by hand. Then she stained it a deep cherry color and put on a clear coat, and I swear when I saw it at her house a month later, you would have thought it was a brand new piece from a fancy store. She admitted her fingers were sore for a week from all that sanding, but she was so proud of how it turned out. Some people just have that eye and the patience to follow through.