Furniture Medic by Bespoke Restoration

Mark recently had the opportunity to do an exciting overnight job for a major Albuquerque retailer while the store was moving from the Coronado Mall to the Uptown Q Mall!

The job started at 10pm in order to provide minimal disruption for both the customer and their customers (the shoppers!).  The store unloaded four semi-trucks worth of Modern style Furniture, Clothing displays, and racks.  During the move (loading and unloading) as well as placement into the store many of the Furniture Items were damaged, scratched and/or nicked.  Mark made over 50 precision repairs to the furniture as it was delivered and assessed.  By the end of the night 6:00am the store was all set up and the furniture looked perfect!
The Store Manager was very appreciative of Mark’s Furniture repair expertise and the fact that the repairs could be made on-site on the same night as the delivery!

Check out some of the great before and after photos: (There are some great repair examples of scratches to  painted metal furniture)

Furniture Repairs: Pet chew damage & spilled nail polish damage

One of our recent customers had 2 interesting furniture repair problems for Mark to solve.

First our customer had a chair leg that had fallen victim to “fido” or dog chew marks.  As this chair was part of a full formal dining set our customer wanted the chair returned to “like new” condition. Mark filled the damaged area, color matched and reapplied the color; replaced graining to the chair leg and final gave a new coat of finish.

The second piece of damaged furniture was a 3 drawer side-table (part of a 7 piece living room set). Our customer had spilled hot-pink nail polish onto the top of the end table and also down the front of the 3 drawers.  After spilling the nail polish our customer tried to remove the polish with nail polish remover, which unfortunately caused further damage to the end table.  The nail polish ate through the finish down to the bare wood so a precision repair was not possible. A full strip and refinish of both the table top and the 3 drawers was required. The Gloss factory cured finish of the table made the return of the color and the glossy finish particularly lengthy and difficult process to return the polished / deluxe finish.

Shipping Damage Furniture Repair: Dining Set

Furniture from other countries can really be spectacular! However, trouble can often arise when the furniture is shipped during the journey to the buyer’s home.   Recently Mark of Furniture Medic had the opportunity to restore shipping damage to a high-end very ornate Italian style dining set, on-site in the customer’s home.  During the shipping process the table, chairs and matching armoire all suffered some sort of damage.

Mark repaired 2 large dents to the table edge; 2 scratches to the bottom foot plate of the table; removed packing glue from the glass of the matching armoire and finally repaired one the dining chairs that had where the cushion had been pushed away from the chair frame.

The customers were very happy with the results and the dining set now looks brand new as it should!

The great “before” and “after” photos of the repairs can be seen here:

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Chair Strip & Refinish (caused by water damage)- Furniture Repair in Albuquerque

The 70’s style solid wood dining set had years of scratches and was recently also water damaged (after the apartment above our customer’s had a flood that leaked through the ceiling).  In an effort to restore these retro style family heirloom chairs to their former glory they needed a partial strip and refinish on all the damaged areas (chair backs and seats) and the legs also needed to be cleaned and touched up to match. As you will see in the photographs Mark sanded back the chairs to bare wood to remove the damage and then color matched the stain and finally sealed the chairs with multiple topcoats.  Mark also repaired a dent to the side of the table on-site in the customer’s home that occured when the table was moved during the water damage clean-up. It was a pleasure to see this unique set restored!

Our customer was very pleased with the work that Mark did and left the following review on the “Tell FM” review site:

“Anyone looking to trust a family heirloom like ours to someone for restoration needs three things: respectful service, responsive communication, and confidence that the work will be done right. Mark provided all three. We’re tremendously happy with the work he’s done.”

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