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r/furniturerestoration

restore, re-upholster, renew. **Restoration: returning something to its former condition** Welcome! This is sub for sharing projects and exchanging information on restoring furniture to how it looked when new (or as close as possible). Posts about selling, ID requests, valuation requests, age/era/style requests will be removed, and as a result of the recent increase in posts like this that don't fit this sub the poster will be banned. Founded 2015 · 134K members

134K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.4K upvotes, which works out to 63 per 1,000 members.

63peak upvotes per 1,000 members
134Kmembers
8.4Kbest post
132most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 21% 20%
Gallery 54% Image 21% Link 20% Question 3% Text 3%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Update on dumpster find Flexsteel Spindle chair

↑ 8.4K 💬 120 gallery 2026

UPDATE: What are these white spots and how to remove them?

↑ 6.2K 💬 132 gallery 2026

First project done.

↑ 985 💬 24 gallery 2026

First true-ish restoration project!

↑ 307 💬 31 gallery 2026

First project finished

↑ 146 💬 8 gallery 2026

Update: A surprisingly controversial little Georgian desk.

↑ 142 💬 30 gallery 2026

advice on cleaning vintage table caked in years of grease

↑ 140 💬 85 gallery 2026

First time project completed- early 1930s bed

↑ 105 💬 6 gallery 2026

My first ever project

↑ 95 💬 5 gallery 2026

Restored this table that was originally my great great grandmothers. I think it's red oak? Possible brought over from Scotland

↑ 85 💬 7 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/furniturerestoration, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/furniturerestoration?
r/furniturerestoration ("restore, re-upholster, renew") describes itself this way: **Restoration: returning something to its former condition** Welcome! This is sub for sharing projects and exchanging information on restoring furniture to how it looked when new (or as close as possible). Posts about selling, ID requests, valuation requests, age/era/style requests will be removed, and as a result of the recent increase in posts like this that don't fit this sub the poster will be banned. It was founded in 2015 and has 134K members.
How many members does r/furniturerestoration have?
r/furniturerestoration has about 134K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.4K upvotes, which is 63 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/furniturerestoration?
"Update on dumpster find Flexsteel Spindle chair" reached 8.4K upvotes and 120 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/furniturerestoration.
What subreddits are similar to r/furniturerestoration?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/topofreddit, r/PopCultureV2.
What kind of posts do best on r/furniturerestoration?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are gallery posts and 21% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/furniturerestoration?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 16:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 16:00 UTC (330 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (51 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/furniturerestoration?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/furniturerestoration has 19 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/furniturerestoration, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.