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How to Clean Lucite

I picked up this vintage lucite stool at the flea market a week or two ago and this weekend I had a minute to reupholster the seat and clean up the base. I was so excited to use this laminated fabric I bought at Purl Soho a while back. You can find lots of laminated…

I picked up this vintage lucite stool at the flea market a week or two ago and this weekend I had a minute to reupholster the seat and clean up the base.

I was so excited to use this laminated fabric I bought at Purl Soho a while back. You can find lots of laminated fabrics online. They’re great to use on dining chairs and play room chairs, or seating in the bathroom.

I took off the old, dingy fabric and used the old fabric as a pattern to cut out the laminated fabric. This way it was easy to choose where I wanted to center the fabric on the pattern.

Laminated fabric, like vinyl, is a little tricky to work with around corners and round edges because it is so thick. Don’t be afraid to pull tightly and try hard to keep the folds on the underside of the seat, rather than along the edge.

Before I put the new seat on, I cleaned the acrylic frame. There’s definitnely a right and a wrong way to clean lucite. NEVER use Windex!! It deteriorates the acrylic slightly over time and makes it look cloudy instead of bright and clear.

The best way to clean lucite is simply warm soapy water and a soft cloth.

Then just wipe it down with a dry cloth and you’re all done. I’ve seen acrylic polish solutions out there but I’ve never used them before.

So happy to have a new little waterproof stool in our bathroom for sitting on while I bathe the girls!

PS Here’s the post were I painted the little blue vanity. And remember Emily’s laminated fabric bench in her dining room? Have you found a great use or source for laminated fabric?

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27 thoughts on “How to Clean Lucite

  1. This is such a timely post for me–I am looking for the exact same stool and coral-colored fabric for the same reason–to bathe my daughter! How serendipitous! Great blog, btw!

  2. Thank you for this post. I wish I had known this a lot earlier! :) I have the CB2 Peekaboo coffee table (which is acrylic, not lucite – I guess lucite is higher end?) and I have totally been using Windex on it and it is cloudy!! Doh! (and I just went to the CB2 website and it says mild soap and water, soft cloth! oops) If anyone reading has used the acrylic polish solutions you mentioned I would be interested to know if they work. Thanks!

  3. This is great! I could do this in our jack n jill bath… maybe someday when we have kids. A cute stool sounds better than sitting on the toilet lid while bathing little ones.

  4. Thanks for the tips! I want to recover my office desk with laminated fabric, just waiting for the window in the room to be replaced before I go ahead with my office reshuffle and redecoration!

  5. I have a few vintage lucite pieces and the best (safest) cleaner is Novus. They have it at the Container Store and other online options. I don't find the polish aspect works that well but the cleaner gets off years and years of grime and leaves things with a bit of a shine (not for things you're going to eat off of, like dishes).

    You need to be careful what soaps and cleaners you use. Ammonia will cloud lucite.

  6. Cute bathroom, nice job! LOVE your shower curtain… would you mind telling me where I can order them!

    Thanks so much

  7. there is a product on the internet called plstic cleaner. NEVER use anything on lucite with chemincals in itItis called BRILLIANIZE

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