What’s the best way to fix this type of lacquered coffee table?

Jimmy Faulkner
by Jimmy Faulkner
Lacquered tabletop with chips and scratching.
  6 answers
  • Robyn Garner Robyn Garner on Nov 12, 2017

    A lacquer finish is done by applying many coats of thinned down paint, lightly sanding between each and then finishing with a sealer. Yours is chipped down to the wood. I would use a gloss paint mixed to the same color to "fill" the chips being very careful not to spread the paint over the original lacquer. You can then use pumice powder to smooth.


    Bear in mind this will never be as perfect as the original finish.

  • Niny_hwang Niny_hwang on Nov 13, 2017

    just cover it with a wallpaper sticker

  • D roach D roach on Nov 13, 2017

    can you add a wood moulding over the entire edges and refinish. this would stop it happening again,

  • Charly Charly on Nov 13, 2017

    It seems to me the only way you're going to be able to make it "match" is if you repaint the entire border. Which means you need to sand, prime and paint with a high gloss paint matched as close to the top as possible. Then seal it with a high gloss sealer. Let it dry, slightly sand a seal again. If you can'tmatch it up perfectly, why not try a co-ordina

  • Charly Charly on Nov 13, 2017

    ting color, like a pale grey or a silver? Your options are many.

  • Lindy Lindy on Nov 13, 2017

    You could tape off (evenly around the table) a section just at the corners using the largest damaged area as a guide. I would use a high gloss black lacquer since the legs appear to be black--or just paint that white border black with a high gloss lacquer paint