color & care

Handcrafted - "Accent Furniture From  the past - For Today's living"

Country Brown

Wild Honey

Unfinished

Our Finish and How to Care For It

In the pioneer days, tar diluted with thinner, was a commonly used wood preservative. Wood items that were to be used outside were soaked in this for protection from the weather. Sometimes a stain was added to give it the color desired. Today we still use that technique, and it brings the grain of the wood to life as no other stain can. We go one step further, to protect and enhance its beauty for you, by applying 2 coats of durable floor traffic paste wax. The blending of the tar in our stain and the paste wax gives our furniture warmth unmatched by any other finish. If your furniture were to get marred, a coat of wax will usually take care of it. Lightly apply paste wax with a sponge in a circular motion and buff when dry. This will not remove the dent but will usually mellow it to a mark of character. If over the years your furniture looses its full luster, apply a coat of paste wax, buff, and your furniture will have the luster renewed. Another very important feature of our furniture is that we use only "Northern" white pine. All of our lumber is from our Northern Wisconsin Pine Country. Here we have long cold winters and trees grow slow resulting in tighter grained lumber, with more beauty and durability that southern pine. We only harvest trees in the cold winter when the sap (pitch) is stored in the roots. For you, this means a prettier grain pattern, lumber that will not bleed pitch, and is a more stable piece of furniture. For those of you that choose to paint our unfinished furniture, it would be good to seal the knots to keep them from discoloring, then paint with whatever paint you desire. To stain, no special preparation is needed. Please feel free to call us with any questions you may have. We hope you enjoy your piece of furniture from God's Country Furniture for many years to come.