How do you care for a linoleum shelf top if fine scratches occur?
As you use the shelf by placing flowerpots or small items on it, shallow scratches easily appear, making you wonder about care methods you can do at home.
Gently rubbing a walnut kernel onto the scratched surface allows the natural oil from inside the nut to soak in and naturally erase light marks.
In flat point's DEER SHELF 4, linoleum is used on the upper surface of the shelf where hands and objects make contact every day. The linoleum used in this furniture is made by kneading and curing raw materials such as linseed oil, pine resin, wood flour, and limestone[1]. Generally, unlike vinyl coated with an artificial film, linoleum contains plant-based resin and oil, giving it a uniquely soft and matte texture.
Walnuts are used for light scratches. You can erase marks by rubbing a walnut kernel on the surface of fine scratches[2]. When you gently rub a walnut stripped of its hard outer shell, the vegetable fat component of the nut seeps out and fills the shallow gaps that have formed. The principle is that the nut oil naturally permeates the surface of the material cured with linseed oil, settling the scratched marks back to their original color tone.
hmmm, this is a neat care method that revives the original surface using nuts found at home instead of reapplying artificial coating agents.
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