These items below as you can see, have been spray coloured to look old by adding shading to what the manufacturers think, are the correct areas to shade however, to the untrained eye the shading looks effective however, if you were to look at a genuine piece of old furniture, you would spot straight away, the difference between the two.
With a genuinely old piece of furniture, we have to ask ourselves how did the dark areas appear? They were certainly not put there by a spray gun, so where did they come from?
Well! I have worked on a great deal of furniture in my time, and I can tell you that most of the build-up of the dark shaded areas are caused by whoever was responsible for the cleaning of the furniture has only managed to clean the flat surfaces and avoided the mouldings and crevices, and if you have ever tried to wax polish and item using black wax polish it is very hard to remove it from the stated areas. And over time this then builds up and with continual waxing and cleaning the grime builds up to such a degree that it becomes a patternation, as you may have heard the experts use this terminology when describing an old or well-worn item.
Furthermore, next time you visit a historic building that still has the old stone flooring, then look at the furniture legs and you will see that most of them will have a grey colour creeping up the legs, this is caused from when the floor cleaning water and brushes etc have splashed and banged up against the legs and because the water has not been dried up quickly or if at all, this allowed the wood finish to break down and over time deterioration has taken place.
It would appear to me, that most manufacturers have not spent enough time or research when trying to simulate their shading.
Moving on, my client required a fresh new look to the furniture, hence I had to strip off the entire old finish using paint stripper, then go through the usual procedures to finally be able to apply a new light Oak stain, then for a much longer life span and protection, I clear spray lacquered over applying many coats.
