Nail polish remove can stain your wooden furniture if it gets spilled. Because it may have attacked the finish, it can be difficult to remove the stain. This is a guide about fixing a wood table with a nail polish remover stain.
How do I refinish a solid oak coffee table that was marred by fingernail polish remover?
By Don from Philadelphia, PA
By kffrmw88
03/29/2010
Sounds like the nail polish remover partially dissolved the finish on your nightstand and when it dried, the napkin stuck to it. you can release the bits of napkin with the same nail polish remover. Use a q-tip moistened with the nail polish remover and carefully apply to redissolve the finish. The bits of napkin should come right off.
Unfortunately, you have marred the original finish on your nightstand. If it is a polyurethane finish, you should be able to touch it up. The same goes for a varnish or shellac finish. If you don't like the results, you can always strip the finish from only the tabletop and apply a new finish. Good luck with your refinishing project.
My daughter spilt nail varnish remover on our small table. The stain is white and very rough; what can I do to put it right? The table is made of yew, and highly polished.
Marion
By coolbeanwalker
01/16/2012
Get some normal vinegar and put a spoonful of table salt in it. Poor on cloth and wipe on nail polish.leave for 5 minutes then wipe of with clean water. The stain should have more or less gone but may need a couple more wipes down with clean water. DO NOT reuse the vinegar bit as this will destroy your surface!
I dropped a bottle of nail polish on our tile floor and it splattered on the leg of our table. My hubby used nail polish remover before I could tell him no and now there are dull lighter white spots, almost like a water stains, on the wood and the varnish is gone. I called Pottery Barn and of course nobody can remember the name of the varnish since it is an older piece.
Should I just varnish it with clear and leave the spots? I have heard about the iron method, but I am scared. I feel so horrible I want to cry about my floor and my table! Thanks for all your help!
By lacullinane from Omaha
By Deeli
04/11/2011
There are oodles and oodles of ideas at the bottom of this page in the ThriftyFun archives below.
My daughter spilled nail polish remover (acetone) on my kitchen table, and then wiped it up. My table now has a large cloudy, rough area where the remover ate through the finish on the wood table.
Does anyone know how to get nail varnish remover out of an oak veneer table?
We had permanent marker on our expensive oak tabletop. My wife used nail varnish remover to remove it, but it's now left 3 dull marks on the table. How do we repair this to make it look right again?
My daughter got nail polish remover on our cherry wood table and it removed the finish. What is the best way to get the finish back?
I spilled some nail polish remover on my kitchen table and it turned white and my table is a dark dark brown. Is there anything I can do to restore it without stripping the stain?
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