I am not good at things and I broke my tv cabinet. Help!
March 7, 2016 12:33 PM   Subscribe

I managed to drop a tv and scrape the hell out of the entertainment center. The TV is sadly a lost cause, but I would love to salvage the furniture. Suggestions? Pics: 1, 2, 3
posted by LittleMissCranky to Home & Garden (3 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Are the white scrape marks overtop of the finish (say, marks from paint on another surface) or from removing the finish by scraping? If the latter, there are these little marker pen things for touching up scuffs near the furniture / wood stains in most hardware stores.
posted by deludingmyself at 12:45 PM on March 7, 2016


The parts over the top of the finish they should come off, try a white pencil eraser or a microfibre cloth.

Where they scratch the finish down to the base wood you might like to try something like these to touch it up.
posted by wwax at 12:51 PM on March 7, 2016


For a quick and dirty job I would rub the scuffs out as best as possible with microfiber cloth or very fine steel wool. Then I would use an almond stick to blend the scratches back into the wood.

Anything more than that might not be worth it. If the scratches are deep you'd want to fill them with some sort of putty but trying to match the finish would be very, very difficult.
posted by bondcliff at 1:01 PM on March 7, 2016


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