This tutorial is long overdue, but what can I say. Life happens, things get put on the back burner, and then I completely forgot that I never actually shared the process with you all. I love breathing new life into old or hand-me-down pieces of furniture. While I am no professional it has always been something I have truly enjoyed. Something about the process of seeing a piece that is worn out and bringing it back to life. I have learned a lot over the past twenty years of sanding down furniture, and while I am no professional, there are a few simple steps that I go by. Determine if the piece you are refinishing is real wood or not (If it’s not real wood than save yourself the heartache and just paint it). In most cases using an electric sander almost always works better than furniture stripper when wanting to get down to raw wood. And lastly, don’t skip over the “buffing” step! You can see where that step is in the tutorial below. So without further delay I am finally sharing how I refinished this FaceBook Marketplace find.