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Quick Fix for Water Damaged Wood Dining Room Tables

05/15/15 | Home, Home Decor, How To

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If you have kids, I think I’d be safe to say you have some damage done to your wood dining room table. Not only are their dings all over the top of my table from the kids banging their utensils on it, but there is also a lot of damage from water spills that didn’t get cleaned up until I saw them. I had so much damage to my table that I was ready to either get rid of it, or completely sand it down and re-finish it. I didn’t want to put all that effort into it right now, so I was searching for a quick fix to get it looking better. There was such a contrast between the finished and unfinished part of my table, that it was looking REALLY BAD. Just see for yourself . . .

Quick Fix for damaged dining room wood tables before and after

I headed to Home Depot and was on a quest to find a quick fix. I wanted something that would take me a few minutes to use and still get a great result. I found these awesome little Minwax Wood Finish Stain Marker and decided to give it a try. It couldn’t look any worse than it already did, so I had nothing to lose. I chose the color closest to my dining room table and took it home.

My table had such bad water damage that parts of the table were missing the finish and glaze.

Quick Fix for damaged dining wood tables

Quick Fix for damaged dining wood tables

I got my little helper and started “coloring” all over the table. See his cute little chubby hand helping me. He thought it was really fun. I was closely supervising him.

Quick Fix for damaged dining wood tables

After we colored the stain on the damaged part of the table, we wiped the excess off with a paper towel.

Quick Fix for damaged dining wood tables

I couldn’t believe how much better it already looked.

Quick Fix for damaged dining room wood tables before and after leg

So after seeing how good it looked on the leg for a test run, I used it on the top of the table.

Quick Fix for damaged dining wood tables

Quick Fix for damaged dining room wood tables before and after leg

It doesn’t completely cover up the damage, but it really makes it look less noticeable. I was so happy!

Quick Fix for damaged dining room wood tables

Quick Fix for damaged dining room wood tables

Head over to Amazon or Home Depot and grab one for yourself and it will feel like you have a whole new kitchen!

 

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  1. Deb says

    May 13, 2016 at 7:35 am

    Water was spelled and the table has a white stain. What do I do?

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