Reply To: Question about revarnishing old dining room chairs?

Staining wood is much trickier and time consuming than opaque paint. You must get every trace of the old stain off or the results will not look very nice, as you’ve just found out. Worse, there is no good way to fix that. You can either paint it over in some solid color, or strip it again and start from scratch. Also, if you try it again, use a polyurethane-based stain.