If you have have a recent stroll through a "standard" furniture shop lately (no bare wood furniture in sight), you've possibly seen that many of the more admired pieces are "weathered" or "distressed." It is the furniture equivalent of "stone washed jeans."

Unluckily, since the distressing is done via machine, there is always a discernable pattern to be found in it, and this, in my mind, makes it almost certainly not worth purchasing.

At the present, majority of the folks who gravitate toward bare wood furniture are independent do-it-yourselfers, and will always be on the lookout for recommendations and ways to assist make the results of their hobby much more striking than ever. If you'd like to give your furniture a nice, really random distressed look, this suggestion could be simply what you have been looking for.

Before you get to the step of staining wood furniture, just take a 3'-4' length of chain and work the furniture over with reasonably hard blows. Not too hard, as we do not want to crack anything, but certainly hard enough to leave marks! Distress your bare wood furniture to check, then sand and stand as typical. The "bruises" and indentations will be differently colored and the in general effect will be a rough, weathered look that is quite attractive.

If the thought of beating the daylights out of your attractive piece of bare wood furniture gives you the willies, I'd suggest working on a test board, then staining and noting the results, as there is certainly no taking it back once the deed is done!

And if you're still uneasy about using that recommendation, here is one that may be more to your liking.

When sanding in preparation for staining wood furniture, often it happens. As you're bent over the wood, that bead of sweat that was building up on your brow decides it is no longer content there, and splat! Right onto the wood. If you only stain it at this point, you will have a watermark where the stain reacts visibly differently to that spot of the wood, so what to do?

Fine, you can just write it off as a "character mark" and do with it, but if you'd rather reduce its impact, finish sanding and wipe the piece with a tack cloth. After that, clean the whole piece again, this time with a lightly damp rag. Let dry wholly before proceeding. You may not be able to take the drop of sweat back, but you can minimize its presence with this easy trick.

These are but two things you can do before or during the process of staining wood furniture to aid enrich the overall look of the piece.

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