5 tips on how to make your old furniture look good again

If varnish flakes off the wood, the whole piece of furniture should be bleached or sanded down and re-varnished. Photo: Christin Klose/dpa

Sometimes you just have to accept that your favourite piece of furniture has seen better days. But that doesn’t mean you need to replace it. A few simple tricks may be all it takes to give it a second life.

We asked some experts to help us with some of the most common problems with old furniture.