White Stains on the Coffee Table Be Gone!
April 14, 2009
Several months ago, my lovely boyfriend put a hot porcelain teapot & tea cup down on our teak mid-century coffee table, and the result was heart-crushing white “burn” marks.
He didn’t realize what was going to happen by that hot teapot, but nevertheless I was soooo upset! I tried several different things to get the marks off to no avail. I was mentally preparing myself for having to sand down the whole thing and re-do the top.
However, while visiting my family in GA this past week, I flipped through an old issue of Ready-Made magazine and they mentioned that an iron + cotton towel could solve all my white burn mark woes!
Lo, and behold they were RIGHT! After holding the hot [dry] iron on each stain for only about a minute, the marks were gone!!
I’m beyond thrilled right now! I feel as if I accomplished something really big tonight! Haha. I hope someone else out there has this same problem, and I make your night just the way that Ready-Made made mine!
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Eden Rose | April 15, 2009 at 7:00 pm
That is genius!! Thank you for that tip, i will always rememeber that one. x
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JPepper | April 18, 2009 at 12:30 pm
This really does work! I had a work table that I hadn’t cared about keeping in good condition, until I decided to make it the kitchen table. It was completely covered in water marks. I used a sheet of wax paper, a DRY dish cloth and an iron (no steam!). I don’t know if the wax paper is necessary, that’s just the tip I read. It comes out in a minute and it doesn’t hurt the finish at all.
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uwkimmy | April 20, 2009 at 10:38 am
Wow thanks for the tip! The same thing happened to our old table when we put lasagna on top of white paper plates. I”m planning on selling the table so I will definitely have to use this trick first!
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Gene | April 20, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Kind of weird that heat damages it and fixes it. Sort of like how alcohol causes and solves all of my problems.
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ashley | April 29, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I have a stain on my dining room table from a plate that was too hot – I’m going to use your trick this afternoon! Thanks so much – I thought I was going to have to get used to the ugly white mark.
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ZC | May 6, 2009 at 5:03 pm
This is fantastic!
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peter | May 25, 2009 at 10:20 am
wow awesome tip. I will have to try that on my grandma’s antique coffee table
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Conversation Pieces | May 26, 2009 at 11:36 am
Oh my… I cannot thank you enough for this post! My other half also did this my dressing table and I was a little heartbroken too!! So going to try this… THANK YOU! xx
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Laurie | June 30, 2009 at 5:25 pm
This really works! I had white spots on my bathroom cabinets and I tried this today…amazing!
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Katy | July 2, 2009 at 9:11 am
just found your blog and this is a great post! This trick will def. come in handy!
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margauxhf | July 8, 2009 at 11:05 am
What an ingenious idea! Good thing it worked too, that is a very pretty coffee table.
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modern-furniture-guy | July 11, 2009 at 8:18 pm
God I love you for this.. Good lookin out
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Kayla | October 9, 2009 at 1:29 pm
thanks so much for the help, Im going to give this a try!
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Colleen | October 30, 2009 at 4:41 pm
This is the first time I’ve heard this tip…After trying (ugh) mayonnaise. It didn’t work. I’m going to give it a go on my kitchen table for two white burn marks, one is rather large. Fingers crossed.