Paint the top and bottom edges only if they are bare wood.
Sometimes you just had to sand a piece of furniture down to the bare wood and start again.
The match made a sputtering sound against the bare wood of the floor.
The sun came out once before it went down and shone on the bare woods beyond the ridge.
She stood there, her hands on the bare wood, listening as he walked away.
All the original paint had gone, and the bare wood was exposed to the elements.
We want a complete ring of bare wood half a meter across.
You will have to remove the old finish and strip the floor down to the bare wood.
In 1964, museum workers scraped off all of the brown and white paint, getting down to the bare wood.
"Even if they look a bit silly on this bare wood."