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Antique Furniture Restoration

Structural Repairs

Loose or broken joinery on chair frames, table legs and bases, stiff drawers on chests, etc.

Veneered Repairs

Veneered antique furniture pieces often suffer from veneer loss due to the effects of climatic dryness, wood movement and general loss of adhesion of the underlying glue holding the veneer in place.

Finish Defects

Both new and antique furniture can suffer from accidental spills and heat marks from objects inadvertently left on surfaces such as water marks, heat marks, perfume and alcohol damage, chips, gouges, dents and scratches.

French Polishing

This is a very old and near-forgotten technique of applying numerous very thin coats of liquid shellac to build up a lustrous and beautiful finish.

Furniture, whether antique or modern, needs regular maintenance to keep it both visually attractive and structurally sound.

Restoring Traditional Cane Seat

It requires weaving of individual cane strips in the traditional cane bottom pattern. This process is time consuming taking two full 8 hour days to complete after the chair is prepared.

Restoring Rush Seat

The Chair has rungs for the seat support. A variety of rope like materials can be used to weave this seat. The most common materials are paper rush and see grass rope. It will take about one 8 hour day or two half days to complete this seat.

Restoring Basket Weave

Normally this seat is done in a traditional herringbone pattern, but a shaker weave pattern is common as well. It usually takes one day to complete the woven seat after the chair is clean and prepared.

Restoring Rustic Limb Ladder Back Straight Chair

The chair is constructed from limbs with the bark intact. It has no arms and it has rush or basket weave seat. There are more complicated angles in this chair construction than in the stool.

If retaining a historical value is important, and if restoration is the right course of action to take, it should only be carried out by a qualified professional.

Professional restoration and conservation goals are to preserve the original integrity of a piece as much as possible...

Therefore it is recommended to restore only the damaged or lost areas of any early piece, keeping that original "look."

After all it's not age alone that makes an object antique.

Antique Furniture Restoration Structural Repairs Loose or broken joinery on chair frames, table legs and bases, stiff drawers on chests, etc. Veneered Repairs Veneered antique furniture pieces often suffer from veneer loss due to the effects of climatic dryness, wood movement and general loss of adhesion of the underlying glue holding the veneer in... click to read more