Hide Furniture Scratches – An Inexpensive Method

I got these furniture touch up markers as a gift, but I couldn’t imagine something that looked like a magic marker could fix scratches in furniture, but I thought I’d test it out and post the results here.

Before:

Hiding wooden furniture scratches with markers

After:

Hiding wooden furniture scratches with markers

So do furniture touch up markers really work? As you can see, they worked pretty well. It looks even better from farther away. One tip I learned is to start with the lightest color marker even if you furniture is dark, and move up to the darker markers as needed. On my first “repair” I ended up using too dark of a marker. It still doesn’t look terrible though, and certainly looks better than the scratch did.

Here’s the brand I did the above test with:

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