On varnished furniture, you can opt for a clear wax or an amber-colored wax, recommended on dark pieces of furniture. Good quality wax is available at any hardware store.

Urbanology Designs' Ginger Curtis and Lewis & Rose Interiors' Brett Seidl talk about the return of darker woods to the design ...

Often, dark stains on wood come from moisture reacting with tannin. There are several ways you can try to remove them.

How do you make a scratch-resistant varnish using sugars and vegetable oils? Researchers can show how it's done: They have developed a furniture varnish containing roughly 50 percent renewable raw ...

Q. My dining table has a dark finish. I put on a tablecloth and place setting plates for a dinner party. When dinner and dessert were over and I picked up the cloth, there was a white stain on the ...