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Apartment and interior
How to choose antique furniture and care for it
When you buy antique Japanese furniture pay attention to following:
- It's very seldom that old furniture is absolutely intact. Usually it's restored. So make sure that the furniture can be used for direct function. If you have a doubt, appeal to the shop staff.
- Check up all moving parts. Drawers must slide in and out well. Doors have to open easily.
- Beforehand choose a place for your new furniture and write down its allowable dimensions. In a showroom furniture could seem to have different dimensions than in reality. So don't feel shy of measuring it or ask the staff about it.
- Low tables nigatsuro are stayed fashionable. Besides direct function they are used as a pedestal. Examine it intently. Check out its surface, legs, lacquered covering.
- Examine a backside of furniture. It ought to have no spots corroded by bags.
- Inspect every detail of furniture, touch it. In owner's or salesman's presence take out all drawers and examine theirs inner side condition. If you found a defect, consult with staff about the renewal.
- If a locker on wheels has even one broken wheel, it is break its steadiness. Bear in mind that wheel's repair is rather expensive.
- If you are going to buy furniture from zelkova, examine the quality of its varnish.
Precautions
- Cover with a table-cloth any table which you use as dinner one. Table-cloth will protect a table from hot ware and weaken a blow of falling hard and heavy items.
- Furniture must stand evenly. Sometimes a door that opened easily in a shop at home opens with difficulty. The reason could be in crooked placing. It is easy to correct it by putting gaskets under the legs.
- Old furniture very often is occupied by wood-engravers. So before bring furniture indoors, turn it tightly with vinyl film and fumigate with sulfur. It is rather troublesome but will let you to get rid of bags.
In no circumstances
- Don't put hot items on the furniture, for instance boiled up or even hot teapot. You can damage a wood and it's irreparable. Even hot cup can leave a white circle at the surface.
- Don't wipe furniture with wet rag. Drying up a wood can become deformed. Rag must be dry or slightly moist. If you spill some water on furniture wipe dry it immediately. Otherwise the wood will soak in it and a spot will arise.
- Don't let the direct sunbeams to fall on furniture. Long sunbeam influence is able to curve the wood and change its color.
Care for furniture
1. The motion of movable parts ought to be sliding. If sliding doors or drawers move jerkily, with difficulty, smear details with candle, teflon or teflon grease. If joints creak, smear those with machine oil or teflon grease.
2. In the case of rust arising on metal parts, erase it unhurriedly by animal horn or bone. Never use metal brush or other metal items for rust erasing. After you erased rust rub this place with piece of cotton fabric. Never use oil.
3. You can easy remove small scratches using color pencils. Paint the scratches over and wipe with cotton fabric. In case of need you can make tincture.
4. Polishing of furniture. Wooden items get natural shine only after long patient polishing. But if you have not enough patience to polish furniture with cotton fabric, we recommend you following. Mill the kernel of walnut till the grade is like one for coffee-beans. Wrap the ground nut into a cotton napkin. When oil exudes on the outward side of napkin, use it for neatly polishing the furniture. Don't hurry up because you can damage the furniture working in hurry.
Tincture of antique Japanese furniture
It's better to entrust the soiling removing from paulownia tansu to an expert.
If the lacquer partly got off from the furniture, rub into this place shoe-polish of color a little darker then furniture. Do it many times. At the end swear it with wax for furniture.
Repair
Upon repair of wooden box use glue excess of which is easy removable. In old times Japanese used the glue made from boiled rice and hot water.
For leveling any dents and holes use special putty. Repair in the following way:
1. Fill up a dent or hole with putty mixed with sawdust.
2. Wet you fingers and neatly restore the original view of the part. Immediately take away excess of the putty or you'll have unnecessary work later. When the putty dried up, make the trimmings with cutting tool or emery paper.
Color picking up
Make the tincture with water-colour of wanted color. You can apply a layer of diluted Indian ink on the water-colour. It is gives a touch of antiquity. Make the trimmings with wax.
Handling of metal parts
If a metal part is broken or lost, buy resembling and handle it a la antique. Using rag and brush paint the part with black shoe-polish and burn it. If the color came off unequal, repeat till required result. Or you can use special liquids for metal.
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