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Tag: Antique Repair
Using Upholstery Nails & Tacks to Dress up your Furniture
I think of steel studs as adornments on high-end furniture — not the kind I own.Steel studs, furniture nails orupholstery tacks all boil down to the same thing: small, metal nails that were traditionally used to hold the fabric onto furniture. These days, the fabric is usually fastened with staples or glue, so those once-functional tacks and …
What Exactly is Mid-Century Modern?
Today’s post is a great article on what Mid-Century Modern is. If you are like I am – you hear that term thrown around quite a bit lately, but there is a whole lot more to it than just the period where furniture was built. If you’ve spent any time talking with other collectors, …
Recent Projects
Check out some of our recent projects that we have recently completed at Wood Menders.
Good Quality Furniture or not really….
We always get asked on what to look for when buying furniture both old and new to ensure that it is good quality and that it will last for many years to come. Here are a few things to look for when shopping for that new piece of furniture: Dovetail Joints Solid Wood or Plywood …
Furniture & Refinishing
One of the things we get alot of questions each & every we get is: can you repair my furniture without having to refinish it. The answer is yes in the majority of cases. Rather than damage the worn spots on the surface of this 19th Century spool table, the new owner could apply paste …
Hiring out for antique furniture repair begins with doing your homework
Today we are talking antiques. So you have an antique that is showing its age and needs some repair – how do you know who to go to and make sure they do not mess it up further. Sooner or later, most of us who hang out with antiques get the urge to do a …