Furniture Medic by Bespoke Restoration

One of our military family customers recently moved back to Albuquerque after being stationed in England. During their deployment they purchased a number of Antique English Furniture pieces. During shipping some pieces suffered fairly severe damage, notably to their side cabinet that had the top broken in two pieces and the scroll detailing on the top of their cabinet broken off in several areas, with pieces missing. Also, their delicate barley twist leg nesting side table (part of a set of three) was broken in half through the middle of one of the table legs. Although this type of damage is very unfortunate it is also the most exciting wood furniture repair to work on! These very lovely and valuable pieces of furniture were repaired to our customer’s satisfaction.

Mark re-pieced the scroll work on the cabinet by gluing all pieces available and then made molds in order to recreate and replace the missing wood areas. Once all the pieces were back in place on the scroll detail he was able blend and color match the area and then put a finishing top coat.

Mark used a 2 part epoxy resin glue to put the scroll table leg back together so that the table would be strong enough to be weight bearing.  He then filled the join line using precision techniques to ensure the repair would be invisible to the eye.

By bringing life back to this damaged furniture Mark was really able to feel like a “furniture doctor” no pun intended!

Here is the “Tell FM” customer review from Brian and Angie:

We truly appreciate the wonderful feedback! Here are some of the great “before” and “after” photos:

Recently Mark stripped, color matched and refinished a pine dining room table for a customer following a spill of Windex Cleaner on the table top!

The Windex cleaner has ammonia in the product, which ate through the finish on the table top. As you can see from the photographs the damage was severe.  Mark completely stripped the table to bare wood then color matched, re-stained and final spray top coated the table with 6 layers of pre-catalyzed satin lacquer finish.

Here is the great review provided by Melissa and Fritz Blake on the “Tell Furniture Medic” Review Site:

January 28, 2014 — Rated 10 out of 10 by Melissa Furniture Medic by Bespoke Restoration

This lovely round ornate table had significant water damage that caused a large white blotchy area on a significantly large section of the table top.  The customer was very fond of the table and wanted it restored to “like new” condition.

Mark was able to strip and refinish the table removing all of the moisture damage.  This stripping was particularly difficult in the very detailed carved sections on the edge of the table where all build up needed to be removed. Mark had to clean out each small grove. There was also a 2 inch gouge that required a precision burn in repair. Finally the table was color-matched, re-stained and given multiple top coats of finish to help prevent future damage.

See the great “before” and “after” photos here: