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How to Remove Old Paint and Clean Brass Hardware

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Let’s clean brass hardware. So often when painting furniture we have vintage furniture with vintage hardware. Of course, when it comes to hardware we sometimes we replace the old with new, but often we don’t have to. As long as you know how to clean brass hardware then we can preserve a bit of the original piece of furniture while we restore, refresh or paint it. See how to remove paint from vintage hardware pulls and clean brass to its original beauty. These old brass hardware pulls are gorgeous once cleaned. Cleaning brass hardware is easy with this DIY brass cleaner method. #cleanbrass #cleanhardware #removepaint #cleanbrasshardware #cleanvintagehardware #cleaninghardware #cleaningbrasshardware #removepaintfromhardware

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Supply List for Cleaning Brass Hardware

What You Will Need 

Tools

Original Vintage Hardware

The original hardware pulls have an ugly mustard paint on them. I admit that I had every intention of cleaning these pulls and then painting them. But as well all know, plans change. remove paint from hardware, remove paint from brass hardware, clean brass hardware, vintage bombe chests

How to Clean Brass Hardware

My steps for how to clean old brass hardware is rather simple. It is the same method I use for cleaning any and all vintage hardware, especially when I intend to paint the hardware. This time, in particular, my home remedy for cleaning brass hardware just happened to reveal such a gorgeous finish that I can’t bring myself to paint over it.


Remove the Paint from Vintage Hardware

  1. First, you want to remove your hardware from your furniture. remove paint from painted hardware, clean brass hardware, painted hardware, vintage hardware
  2. Next, drop your hardware into a pot on the stove with water. Grab your household baking soda. clean hardware with baking soda, clean hardware, boil hardware, clean brass
  3. Add your baking soda to the pot of water and hardware. I don’t normally measure, but I would say approximately a half a cup worth. how to clean hardware, how to clean brass hardware, how to remove paint from metal
  4. Allow the water to boil for around 15-20 minutes. Keep an eye on it to make sure that the water doesn’t boil over. boil hardware, how to clean brass hardware, how to remove paint from brass hardware
  5. Turn off heat and move your pot to the sink. Be careful, I like to use my silicone kitchen gloves to avoid getting burned. You can find them HERE. You will also notice that the water is pretty gross. cleaning brass hardware, clean brass hardware, how to clean brass hardware, how to remove paint from vintage hardware
  6. Make sure to go back and clean the stove top. There will most likely be white splatter marks from the baking soda. If you need a more thorough kitchen cleaning you can check out my How to Get a Clean Kitchen in Half the Timeclean stove top, wipe up mess

Scrub the Hardware Clean

At this point, I grab my scrub brush and old toothbrush to remove the residue left behind from boiling. scrub brush and toothbrush, clean hardware, cleaning brass hardware, scrub vintage hardware

Since the hardware is sitting in the still hot water, I use my gloves to grab the brass hardware to keep from getting burned.  scrub paint off vintage hardware, remove paint from painted hardware, clean brass hardware

Here is a video showing how the paint falls off of the hardware from using this DIY brass cleaner method.

Once all of the paint is removed you can set it aside on a few paper towels to let them dry. brass hardware, cleaning brass hardware, how to clean old brass hardware,

Can you see how pretty the cleaned brass looks with the subtle iridescent colors? clean brass, cleaning brass hardware, how to clean brass, brass cleaner diy

Vintage Hardware Preserved to Its Original Beauty

At this point, you can either choose to paint the hardware if you aren’t happy with the look, but in this case, the gorgeous brass hardware is placed back onto the furniture. There is no need to paint over these gorgeous pulls. cleaned hardware on painted furniture, brass hardware on painted furniture

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See how to remove paint from vintage hardware pulls and clean brass to its original beauty. These old brass hardware pulls are gorgeous once cleaned. Cleaning brass hardware is easy with this DIY brass cleaner method. #cleanbrass #cleanhardware #removepaint #cleanbrasshardware #cleanvintagehardware #cleaninghardware #cleaningbrasshardware #removepaintfromhardware

See how to remove paint from vintage hardware pulls and clean brass to its original beauty. These old brass hardware pulls are gorgeous once cleaned. Cleaning brass hardware is easy with this DIY brass cleaner method. #cleanbrass #cleanhardware #removepaint #cleanbrasshardware #cleanvintagehardware #cleaninghardware #cleaningbrasshardware #removepaintfromhardware

 

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  1. Aahhhh… I can’t wait to see the bombe chests with the hardware on them! What a tease tgat last picture was! ????

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