FURNITURE: BUY NEW OR RESTORE?

By Keevin Geller | August 21, 2025 |

furniture repair and restoration services in avon, ma

Back in the 1990s, our business accidentally got into furniture repair after the manager of a Boston steakhouse complained about a pile of damaged chairs he couldn’t find anyone to fix. We repaired them on a time and materials basis, a method that often saves clients money. He was so satisfied with the work that we ended up bartering our repairs for meals at the restaurant for a long time. After that, our furniture repair business took off!

History!

By Keevin Geller | January 28, 2025 |

Historic table from the Thomas Crane Public Library that Barney & Carey repairs and refinished.

It’s not every day we get to work on projects that have been around longer than our 100-year-old business, but when we do, we love to share about it! We were recently entrusted by the Archives Coordinator of the City of Quincy’s Thomas Crane Library to restore a table that was built at the same time as the library itself, in 1882.

Why Choose Custom Furniture Over Designer & Retail Furniture?

By Keevin Geller | February 2, 2021 |

The availability of new furniture runs the gamut from the cheapest particle board garbage one can imagine, to that of extremely well-respected, high-end commercial manufacturers…and everything in between.