Comments on: Lye and soaped floors at the guest cottage

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 17:01:25 +0000

Thank you for the soap link John&Juli! We actually resoap our table every month or so, using a mixture of soap flakes and water in the ratio Carl Hansen recommends. (Once you make the mix you can keep it in a container.) We love the matte finish on the table and resoaping definitely returns the pretty, soapy sheen — but oil stains aren’t really solved when you resoap although they become a little less apparent. The first stains looked bad by themselves but now that the table is a little more mottled with them, like you seem to be saying, they don’t stick out so much.

You wipe the mixture on with a soft cloth, on both the top and bottom of the table so that it doesn’t warp. The bottom is hard work! Might work for your Borge Mogensen too. We bought the flakes here: http://www.msodistributing.com/soapflakes.html

I noticed that Fritz Hansen even recommends annual soap flake treatment on our PK22 suede chairs, which seems kind of insane — but I’m thinking of trying it out as the suede on one of them could do with a boost.

By: John & Juli

John & Juli — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:34:12 +0000

Dear Shelly, the soap product is the white natural soap from woca: http://www.wocadirect.com

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:15:15 +0000

Can you tell me which Soap product did you use and how you applied the soap flakes? Think the whole thing looks Great!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:53:41 +0000

Came across your blog searching for IKEA kitchens. That is one stunning cottage! I’d live there never mind cottage there.

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:51:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing your info. I am excited to try this now.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:55:53 +0000

thank you for those directions!