Seb":1van1qlj said:
Its very worn in places , so that definitely helps me in terms of stripping it back and refinishing.
I think some of the wear and definitely some of the marks are intentional by the manufacturer unless someone out of their mind went around putting two lines and a bunch of dots in random places on the piece. You see it on modern mass-manufactured to make it "rustic" or "shabby chic", this helps hide most manufacturing errors plus any wear and tear down the line. If there's already intentional marks on the piece then suddenly you don't notice the tear-out from dull cutters being used or the knocks and marks made whilst it's being transported etc, it's really just clever cost-cutting as they shift more units as they don't need to be perfect so less quality control is needed and less of the units end up in the skip or being sent back from the sellers.
You could refinish it but I would say it isn't really worth it as radiata pine is a pain to work with as well as a pain to stain and finish correctly without serious blotchiness. Wouldn't look too bad painted up in a nice pastel colour though! It would probably add quite a bit of value.