Iron Your Coffee Table To Make It Perfect Again

After years of trying to get rid of water stains on my wood tables, I found this trick online. The recommendation was to iron my tables.

I have to be honest, I was quite hesitant to take a hot iron to any of my precious wooden tables. After all, wooden tables are my weakness. I love transforming them ~you can peek at what I did to my old kitchen table by clicking here ~ but since they were already so damaged and I didn't want to refinish them unless absolutely necessary, I was willing to try just about anything. Scary? Yes, but they really couldn't get any worse looking and in the end, this method worked like a charm. (You can check out a creative living room table transformation by clicking here!)

I placed a cotton shirt between the iron and the table and applied pressure, in a swirling motion to distribute the heat evenly and when I was done, the water stains had completely and totally disappeared.

There was no damage to the wood from the iron either. ***If you would like to see more of this process and the other tables I tackled, you can check out the full post on my website.***

Suggested materials:

Iron
Cotton T-Shirt or Rag

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Joy
on Sep 14, 2016
Do you think that would also work on a stain from a insect can being set on. a dining room table?
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Mor6579051
on Oct 13, 2016
My dad used to do this! He would smooth out old veneer, remove stains, etc with an old iron he kept in his wood shop!
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Matthys Jonker
on Feb 2, 2018
Suppose the iron on "dry" setting since steam setting will cause more damage?
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- Kim |Exquisitely Unremarkable
  on Feb 2, 2018
  Yes, dry setting. I did not use steam. Hope that helps.

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Carol
on Nov 9, 2016
I have a sticky spot on my beautiful wood, would this work on it?
Rox
on Dec 1, 2016
No steam when ironing, right?
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- Kim |Exquisitely Unremarkable
  on Dec 12, 2016
  Right...no steam...