Own Furniture? Protect Your Investment!
Monday, March 31st, 2008
How much did you pay for your furniture? I’ll bet it wasn’t cheap. Most people spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars to furnish their homes and then forget about it, leaving all of their furniture, carpets and floors to waste away over time.
You would never go to the beach without u/v protection, would you? Everything in your home is exposed to low-levels of u/v light all the time and it can’t regenerate the way your skin can. It doesn’t have any way to protect itself. Most people never think about this and so the money they invested in making their home beautiful slowly goes to waste, pennies at a time as their carpets, leather sofas and wood floors fade, scuff and dry out.
Proper furniture care is difficult to define. Standard furniture polish you can find in the supermarket can make your coffee table shine like new and also offers some short-term protection against small scuffs and scratches, but don’t address the long-term issues, of which u/v light is at the forefront. Even at the low-levels you’ll find in an average living room, over time it is extremely damaging to everything it touches that is made of wood, leather or fiber. (more…)