Help - Spilled Nail Polish Remover on Dining Table!

lauren2007

Hi

I have just spilled nail polish remover onto my dining room table. _pale_ As you would expect it has stripped the laquer off the table and removed a patch of the colour.

Any ideas how I could fix this? Its a cherry type finish to the table.

It wouldn't need to be a perfect fix (obviously would need a professional for that), but any improvement on a white splodge in the middle of the table would be good!

All suggestions welcome

Thanks

Norma_Desmond

I know you can get special crayons for filling in scratches in wood, but depending how big the area was they might just make the damage less noticeable.
Not sure how you could restore the varnish though without a professional (and expensive) French polish...?

evoke

I reckon you'll need to redo the whole surface. The laquer will need to be stripped. The bare wood refinished and restained and then a laquer coat reapplied.

NeverInDebt

I agree with post 3 I doubt you ever get it back to its former glory unless its stripped and redone. Maybe try a French Polisher, I doubt it will be cheap though

Could you claim of household insurance assuming table isnt cheap

dander

As an attempt at a home-made fix I would get a piece of wood in a similar shade to the exposed section - I'm guessing from your description of the white splodge that it's something like pine - then I'd get some tinted varnish that looks like it might be the right colour and testing on the spare wood to see how close a colour match you can get. If it seems ok I'd fill the gap in very carefully with a small brush. I think maybe sand the finish down all around the edges of the splodge so you could try and blend a bit where it meets. I'd be wary of using any kind of actual wood stain on the wood because if you ever did decide to strip and refinish the surface then you'd probably never get the stained and unstained woods to match. Make sure the colour is within the actual varnish.

DISCLAIMER: No guarantee this would work - it's just how I would try it.

ormus

unless you know its a real wood table or real wood veneer,
itll never be repairable or look right. nearly all the cheap tables (and some dearer ones too), use a synthetic plastic film/foil finish.
impossible to repair properly.
if its one of those, a table cloth/paint it black/skip it, maybe the only real options.