How to Repair Cat Scratches on Leather Furniture

Simple and inexpensive steps to repairing or hiding cat scatches on leather furniture.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Leather shoe polish in the same color as your couch (Shoe repair shops have many different colors of leather polish or a car upolstry shop).
• Rags (cloth diapers or a shammy cloth)
• Leather cleaner/conditioning product
• Towel
• Bucket of warm water
• Mild dish soap

Hiding the Scratches

1. Clean leather furniture on and around area to repair. Wet a rag in warm water. Apply a small dot of dish soap to the wet rag and wash leather furniture as if washing one's face. Rinse the towel and wipe off soap. Then condition cleaned surface with leather conditioner and let conditioned area set for 24 hours.
2. Apply shoe polish with applicator tip or use a clean rag and swirl it around the shoe polish compound. Rub onto scratched area in a circular motion and completely cover the scratches. The area will look like the scratches are gone.
3. Buff any excess polish away with a clean rag. The buffing proces will smooth the polish into the scratches so that they blend into the leather.

Tips & Warnings

• These are semi-permanent repair steps that will have to be repeated as the color fades. However, it will save hundreds of dollars on a complete leather re-upolster job.