Jamboo Furniture Cleaning And Restoration Tips
The Labie column offers practical home care advice. Clean bamboo with a brush and warm salt water to prevent yellowing, dust carved furniture with a painter’s brush, and remove ink stains with lemon juice rubbed in. Clean paintings by removing from frames and rubbing with a raw potato, then wipe with sponge. Discolored bread trenchers polish with Yemen salts, then beeswax and turpentine. Remove finger marks on doors with paraffin oil and hot water wipe. Paraf fin oil tints polish varnished doors. Cover travel boxes with art serge or cretonne to improve appearance aligning with room decor.