Staining wood can be very rewarding, it can totally change the way the object looks. Basically you can stain anything in your home that's made of wood. But of course some would be a lot easier to stain than others items would be.
For example; if you want a stain something that has previously been stained that might be somewhat easier than staining a previously painted piece of wood.
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Lets say you have two different chairs one was painted, and the other stained. Now mind you of course That if you have a ton or varnish on the chair he will have almost the same amount of work as you would have on a painted chair. A painted chair requires multiple coats of paint stripper applied. Do not try to take the paint off with one stripping session. Let the paint stripper do the work for you and take off one layer at a time easily. When you apply the paint stripper onto the wood let it sit for a couple minutes until it bubbles or you can see it lift. At this point you can either take a specialty paint stripping blade which looks something like a triangle with a stick attached to it, and scrape off all the new stuff. This scraping should be relatively easy because you are not scraping off any Un-soften paint just the stuff that got softened by the stripper. Then paint it again with the stripper and repeat the process. I say again that the stripper do the work!
Once you have finally stripped all the paint off the chair now you can give it a sanding. while you are sanding examine the wood for misses of left on paint. Here you have two choices either put more stripper on which I suggest or or sand out the leftover paint.
Now that your chair is ready for staining you will need with you a soft cloth to stain with and some more fresh soft cloths to wipe with. I generally use a good quality rubber glove so my hands don't look awful when I finish staining. but don't wear such a hard glove that you can't move your hands in it. Dip at part of the rag into the container of stain being careful not to get the rag to wet with stain. And start wiping on staying the same way you do shoe polish don't forget this is not paint this is stain so you're not putting on layers thick of material you're just staining the wood not painting it.
Now that your chair has been stained you can choose a clear finish to put on top of the wood you can choose anywhere from a satin finish to a high gloss finish. If you want to do a nice finish then do multiple coats of clear on it don't try to do just one. five thin coats look a lot better than two thick ones.