Protect Furniture From Scratches

If you favor antiques over modern furnishings use doilies under accessories to protect your dresser top from scratches.

Protect furniture from scratches.

Unprotected furniture legs could be one of the reason for scratches dents and scrapes on your beautiful hardwood floors. Slightly overlap and stagger a row of different sized different patterned doilies for a haphazard shabby chic style effect. This is common if you keep dragging or pushing your chairs tables or beds when you are cleaning decorating or styling your room. Placing a non synthetic pad under a lamp base helps protect your furniture s finish from indentations and other problems.

To a cat furniture may seem like a natural place to scratch. Avoid plastic cork and other hard materials that could cause scratches. Place pads and mats under vases glasses and cups to protect your wood furniture. Besides covering the couch using double sided tape sticky paws or lemon orange peels are also useful for protecting leather furniture from cat scratches because the pets don t like sticky surfaces and strong.

If doilies don t fit your design scheme look at contemporary alternatives. Measures to protect furniture from cat claws are necessary because nail grinding is an instinct of cats. Do not use plastic or rubber on natural wood surfaces as they may soften and damage finish. Pads and mats save the wood furniture from scratches and stains and heated objects.

Teach your cat not to scratch the furniture by offering scratching posts rewarding good behavior and being consistent with training. Instead of declawing your cat there are a few things you can do to protect the furniture while you also train your cat. As long as you are patient spend time and effort it is entirely possible.