What can I use on my wood dressers to protect them? I am using lacy runners on them but I feel approaching...
I am using lacy runners on them but I feel approaching they look like a grandma lives within my house. I've looked at the store but I don't like any of the runners they deal in. I need something that will protect the tops of my dressers because they're legitimate wood and I don't want them getting banged up. Any accepted wisdom of what I can use instead of a runner?
I like wooded runners, or wicker placemats. You could make a runner pretty out of most anything that you fancy. Any sort of stuff can be used and you don't even have to sew, you can bring back fabric epoxy resin and have adjectives of your seems on the underside.
Trays next to felt bottoms?? these look really cool. But I put the fancy trays on a piece of feel rather than gum it to them. The trays are silverplate. Sometimes I put the trays on some of the lace runners my mother and grandmothers were so well brought-up at making. Mostly this is to keep the stuff from skinning the finish of the antique dressers and some of it is to cause the wood under the trays really airy.
My mother surrounded by law be really good embroiderer and made like mad of runners with embroidery on them. This works too.
One of my guest rooms have some runners I made on the loom, any kind of textile will work for this, I just happen to make some "tea towels" too long so they look more close to runners.
Answers: 1/4" glass cut to fit.