You bring it to us
Pieces come to the workshop in Sarasota. You bring it in, we go over it together, and it stays with us while the work is done. Please empty drawers and take off glass, mirrors and anything personal before it travels.
Mid-Century Restoration
We give your furniture a second life.
Turning houses into homes, one piece at a time.
An oval table with a burl-figured top, inlaid banding and a high-gloss finish, ringed by tan tufted-leather rolling armchairs in a sage-green panelled meeting room.
What We Do
Restoration services.
Lacquer Finishing
Sprayed catalyzed lacquer for furniture that gets used — an even, durable finish in flat, satin, or gloss, built up in thin coats.
View ServiceColor Matching & Finish Touch-Up
Matching an existing color and sheen so a repair, a replacement part, or a single piece in a set disappears into the rest.
View ServiceDanish Modern & Mid-Century Restoration
Teak, rosewood, and walnut restoration for mid-century Danish and Scandinavian furniture — finish, joinery, and hardware handled as a matched suite.
View ServiceAntique Restoration & Conservation
Work on older and inherited pieces that weighs what should be repaired against what should be left alone — because on an antique, the wrong intervention costs more than the damage.
View ServiceOutdoor & Teak Patio Restoration
Bringing weathered outdoor teak and patio furniture back — cleaning off gray, repairing sun-opened joints, and finishing for a climate that attacks finishes year-round.
View ServiceVeneer & Inlay Repair
Re-adhering lifted veneer, patching missing sections, and restoring marquetry and inlay so repairs disappear into the surrounding grain.
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A legacy of satisfied souls.
Step One
The Strip
The old finish is removed down to the bare wood, revealing the grain and condition underneath so we know exactly what we’re working with.
Step Two
The Stain
Color is matched and applied to bring out the wood’s natural character, following the finish and tone you asked for.
Step Three
The Seal
A protective topcoat is built up in layers to give the piece lasting durability while keeping the feel of a hand-finished surface.
Getting your piece here
Handing over something you can't replace.
Nothing moves until you have an estimate you have said yes to. The estimate is free and comes from photographs, so you can find out what the work involves without your furniture leaving the room it is in.
If you can't move it
Transport can be arranged — for the trip in, the trip home, or both. It is not automatic and it is not assumed, so tell us when you send your photos, along with anything that makes the piece awkward to lift: a loose joint, a lifting veneer, a narrow stair.
If you need it kept
Storage is available during a project, for a fee — useful when a room is being redone around the piece, or when there is simply nowhere to put it yet. The rate is agreed with you in writing before any storage starts. It is never applied after the fact.
What we mean by value
A number you can show someone.
Restoring the value of a piece is the mission, so it is worth saying plainly what value means here — and what it does not.
A documented opinion, never an appraisal
When we put a figure on a piece, it is a documented opinion of market value, not an appraisal. It names which kind of value it is — what the piece would realistically sell for, or what it would cost to replace — and it is given as a range, because that is how a real market behaves. A single confident number would be the least honest way to put it. We are also an interested party: we did the work, so treat our opinion as exactly that, and get a credentialed appraiser if you need a certified figure.
We are an interested party
We restore the piece we are describing, so we have an obvious reason to want the number to be high. We say so, and we do not write it that way — the estimate is the one the evidence supports, not the highest one we could argue for. This is not an appraisal and we are not appraisers. If you need a formal appraisal, tell us and we will point you to an independent credentialed appraiser instead.
Why a record matters to a claim
A claim, or a scheduled-items list on a policy, is only ever as good as what you can show. Photographs taken before anything happened, the condition the piece was in, what was done to it and with which materials, and — where we have grounds to give one — a documented opinion of its value — that is the record those things are built from. We are not adjusters and we do not act for any insurer. What we can do is make sure the record exists first.