I feel your pain. We have, from OH's family, a set of Henri II heavy, dark oak dining room furniture. The table is in the guests' sitting room which has a dining area if guests want to picnic. The very first year it was damaged by guests putting wet glasses down on the wood (despite me providing vast quantities of coasters) and they also spilt something fairly solid which left a long, irregular mark where it took the polish off.AngloDutch wrote:The group that left last week also had left something wet on the pine dresser in our downstairs bedroom. This had left behind two thick highly-visible white rings.
I can only assume that some people only have heavily varnished or plastic surfaces in their own homes and polished wood and its care is out of their experience. As the bare table wasn't working, I have a transparent plastic cover over it now which shows the wood but prevents further damage. Not a practical solution for a dresser, though.
I have that exact problem in my own kitchen. I should have tiled this particular wall area but didn't see the need at the time. I can't tile it now as I don't have spare tiles.AngloDutch wrote:Before our current guests arrived last Friday, we painted the wall in the kitchen for the 4th time this year.
In this instance, it's not sauce splashes, it's coffee splashes - the coffee machines are there and they occasionally splash coffee up the wall. As it is a chalky paint finish, I cannot remove the splotches without removing the paint so as I don't want to keep repainting the whole wall (guests have breakfast in the kitchen and they can see this area) I've decided that a plain (ie transparent) glass panel fixed over pristine paintwork behind the coffee machines is the way to go. It's a nuisance (of my own making - it's not guests using the machines, it's us ) but it's a problem I need to solve and a wipe clean panel will do it.