Ultimate Guide to Clean Lacquer-Finish Kitchen Furniture

The lacquered furniture look great in classic kitchens or rustic-modern inspiration, but adapted, they can really fit in all styles. Cleaning lacquered kitchen furniture may seem a bit more complicated as it is a more delicate type of finish. They have a very nice finish and never go out of style. However, you have to be more careful than with others with melamine or Formica finishes. Because it is easier to scratch them or turn off their shine with products that are too abrasive.

How is the lacquered wood finish

In general, it is one that is applied to a wooden furniture with a paint or enamel called lacquer. The finish provides an attractive shine, but a very natural look and a touch of delicacy. You can see variations in the veins of the wood, which are what give the cabinet a warm and natural air. That characteristic lacquer finish, which is more delicate than that of another normal paint, is the one that can be damaged.

In general, a lacquered furniture is also more sensitive to shock. Lacquered finishes can be satin or gloss and should not be confused with high gloss lacquers (such as oriental furniture) that are available with other types of products. Another characteristic is that its price is higher because both its materials and its finish include more expensive materials.

How to clean a lacquered kitchen cabinet

First of all, you should avoid getting too dirty. For this, it is convenient that do once a week or every fifteen days according to your kitchen stains.  More or less-this depends as much on its use as on the ventilation or the power of the hood or fume extractor-of a review of the fronts of the cabinets.

Immediately clean any grease stain or food stain that is produced to prevent them from drying and embedding in the wood.

• Use very soft products, with a neutral ph, for delicate surfaces
• Use clothes that have some descaling capacity, such as microfiber cloths that also drag dirt.
• Another recommendable product is neutral soap. Which is purchased in pills, flakes or that you can even make at home by hand recycling used oil.
• The cleaning process of a lacquered kitchen cabinet
• Wet a microfiber cloth in soapy water of the product you have chosen.
• Drain and go through the surface of the furniture until you consider it clean.
• Dry well with a cotton cloth (it can be a used shirt) to recover the shine.
• In resistant stains, apply the soap in a more concentrated way and leave a few minutes until the stain softens and repeat the previous process.

Tricks to clean stains on lacquered furniture

In stains that have penetrated the wood, ink, coffee or other cleaning product with a cotton swab moistened in alcohol until the stain disappears.

To give shine you can first rub the furniture with a potato cut in half and then with a cloth until it acquires luster.

Occasionally you can apply a layer of liquid glycerin to nourish them. It is colorless. Deal very well, without excesses and let act. Then pass a clean cloth to remove what is left over and polish.

With these tips, your furniture will be in a perfect state of cleanliness and showing the beauty of the wood.

For the usual use, every day, the descaling cloth passes, simply, dampened to avoid, as we said before, dirt entering the furniture.