Tag: Furniture Repair Grand Rapids

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 …

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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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Recent Projects

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Recent Projects

Here are some of our recent projects that we have been working on at Wood Menders!

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 …

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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, …

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Recent Projects

Check out some of our recent projects that we have recently completed at Wood Menders.