When that heartbreaking first ding or scratch appears on your new furniture, the marks left behind are especially obvious if the stain is scraped off and the lighter wood beneath it is revealed. Let’s face it – furniture is meant to be used, not just sit there collecting dust. But the downside if you are …
Tag: Antique Repair
Where do you find good furniture?
Looking for antiques at El Rastro, the traditional flea market held every Sunday morning in Madrid, Spain Cristina Arias / Getty Images It might seem like a silly question: where do you find all this stuff? But there’s not an antique dealer out there who ever set up at a show or opened a shop …
A Table?
Restoration Hardwares’ new table: Turning the Tables on Gravity Marcello Pozzi, the Italian architect and designer now living in Los Angeles, has designed his first mass-produced piece for the home. Commissioned by Restoration Hardware for its fall line, the Stack 50 table consists of 50 discs of plywood. Forty-eight inches wide, it has a metal …
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Recent Projects
Check out some of the recent projects that we have been working on at Wood Menders: Do you have a project you are working on or are planning on working on soon? Wood Menders can help – we have a two hour Furniture Repair & Refinishing class where we will walk you through how …
Five Furniture Finishing Tips
Today’s post is a great article that I found in Popular Woodworking. Enjoy! Furniture finishing doesn’t have to be complicated or mysterious. That’s not to say that even experienced finishers don’t run into problems from time to time; everybody does. But there are ways to make the outcome of your project finishing a lot more predictable …
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