To make your drawers slide smoothly again spread bees wax over the sliding surfaces to make it slip easier.
Wood dresser drawers smell.
Removing odors from dresser drawers darkness lack of air circulation and being tucked away and out of sight are an ideal environment for odors to develop.
Spray a household odor neutralizer throughout the room where the new wood furniture is as well as in cabinets and drawers of the furniture.
We just returned from a 3 month vacation and one of my projects in the basement is leaving a smell.
Spray the neutralizer onto floors walls and window treatments as well if they are affected by the smell.
The first thing to do is empty the drawers and wash the contents.
Many manufactured air fresheners are designed to eliminate odors and not just cover them up.
There are some pieces of furniture where the wood is too damaged and the smell so awful i walk away knowing it s just too hard to fix.
Then if you find the smells remain maybe from mothballs musty or new wood laundry soaps drawer sachets or spilled perfumes work on the drawers to eliminate the odors.
Spray the dresser and inside its drawers thoroughly with a product designed to do reduce smells.
If you have a real stubborn odor problem i wrote an entire post on how to remove musty moldy mothy smells here.
The more time i spent painting the dresser though the more i realized it wasn t the pollen i was struggling with it was the smell coming from the dresser drawers.
Whether you are getting old furniture passed down from a family member or from a thrift shop or you simply have wood furniture that is in storage and hasn t been used for a while you can sometimes be in for an unpleasant supply when you get it home the drawers are filled with a musty moldy odor.
Older furniture like the pieces you find at thrift stores antique shops and yard sales often tends to smell somewhat old and stale.
A musty odor develops if moisture gets into the drawers and.
If the odors penetrate wood in a chest of drawers they will be more challenging to eliminate.
Smelly dresser drawers can be caused by spills substances transferred from clothing bacteria mold mildew fungi insects and rodents.
To get rid of really bad moldy smell in wood furniture continued after you refinish the inside surfaces of your furniture you might notice that the drawers stick and don t slide smoothly like an overly painted window frame.