Showing posts with label leather beds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leather beds. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 January 2013

How to Fresh Up Leather Furniture



Leather furniture is extremely graceful and stunning in appearance. Conversely, it is exceptionally sensitive too and it requires extraordinary care in cleaning if any blemish becomes visible on it. In order to help you out, here are some tips and formal procedure to clean the leather furniture, such as leather sofa beds, to make it functional for a long time.
Before starting the cleaning process, it is significant to find out the type of leather you’re working with. You may uncover this information on the tags fastened to your furniture. Let suppose you are having a leather bed then you may view tags to find out either it is a real leather bed or a faux one.  

Items required:
  • Soft fabric pieces
  • Body soap
  • Distilled water
  • Soft brush
  • Vacuum cleaner

Steps for cleaning:
  • Use a low voltage vacuum cleaner entailing a soft brush. High voltage or more powerful vacuum cleaners must be essentially avoided, because it will put down a scratch on leather, which will be horrible after sometime.
  • Before starting cleaning process, you must try the contents on I side of furniture which is hidden. It will help you out in determining that either the material is leaving terrible marks or not. If there are marks, you need to change the contents.
  • Make a watery solution of the body soap using condensed water. Now wet one cloth with that liquid and circularly rub it on the stain smoothly.
  • Take another piece of fabric and dip it in clean distilled water that is without soap, use it to wipe out the soap remainders.
  • Take a dry piece of fabric and use it to dry out the wet furniture part. Make sure that it absorbs all the moisture from the surface.

Follow some guidelines:
  • Never use any sort of furniture polishes, oils and waxes because may harm the leather and make it sticky.
  • Avoid the use of varnishes, strong cleaners, rough soaps, bleaches and ammonia products because they are having harsh effects that may destroy your whole leather item.
  • You must vacuum and dust your leather items on regular basis. it will clean out the small stains and dust particles instantly and will let your leather items breath. Your furniture will last longer.  
  • To avoid hard stains, do some cleaning treatments once a month. Make a solution of vinegar, distilled water and linseed oil and apply it on the furniture. Let it stay for 10 minutes then wipe out. Dry it after wiping. It will remove all small stains.
  • In order to protect your furniture from cracking or warning out, you need to place it outside in bright sunny day for at least 15 minutes once a weak. Keep it away from high heated places.
  • If you do not have the confidence to wash out it at your own, please call any professional and let it do his job. It will cost you little and will save your investment that you made on purchasing the items.


These are some of the simple tips and guidelines that will help you out in cleaning out your leather furniture in regular as well as severe conditions. 

Sunday, 25 November 2012

How to clean black leather bed??



Regardless of the fact that which sort of material you are having as an upholstery of your bed, you need to clean up your bed in order to maintain it in its original attractive look.  You cannot clean each material through same way and washing material. Each type of material is having its own complications such as wooden bed is not washable but metallic bed can be washed easily. Here, I have suggested some basic rules to cleanup black leather beds and I hope it will help you out.
  1. The cleaning product should be of high quality and designed especially for cleaning leather. Avoid the use of other cleaners such as car cleaners because although they can clean leather but they are mostly designed for silicones and oils. They can ruin the outer look and finishing of leather if used regularly.
  2. Purchase foam cleaner which is water base and designed for leather specially. The cloth which you are using as cleaner must be unused and spotless because it can destroy the look of leather by releasing the stains on it. Do not ever use it on light colored such as white leather bed; it is a bit acceptable for black leather.
  3. Do not use baby wipes to clean out the leather because these wipes contains neutralizers to clean acidity from baby skin. They will harm the material and look of leather.
  4. Saddle soaps are poor choice for cleaning purpose because they are too harsh and will be dangerous for the upholstered furnishing.
  5. You must read the ingredients label of the cleaner very carefully. Do not use salted cleaners because they are harmful; also do not use items that are containing any sort of chemical. These sorts of cleaners leave residues on the surface of leather which ultimately ruins the polish of leather. Use those cleaner that leave shine and wax on the surface.
  6. Once you have cleaned your leather bed, you must use water protector on the surface. These protectors avoid the absorption of dist and stain particles. Check out the surface guard too, it must not contain chemicals because for time being it enhances the look but in long run it destroys the leather.
  7. You may also simply clean the leather with damp cloth on regular basis. Do not over wet the cloth because it will make the leather wet which be a reason for leather shrinking. Real leather only needs water based moisturizer.
  8. Light cleaning is recommended because regular cleaning wipe out your body oil that is going to be absorbed in leather.
  9. Keep a special eye on head boards because these are most sensitive to dirt. The oil of your head gets absorbed in that place very easily. Take proper care and cleaning of that place.
  10. The supplier of leather beds can provide you best cleaners because they have cleaners available from multiple suppliers and high quality.
These are some of the simple and few tips that you need to follow when you are having a leather bed and want to keep it for longer period of time.