In last month’s blog, I discussed furniture repair, and offered some rules of thumb on whether or not it would make sense to repair an old piece of furniture, as opposed to buying new. It all depends on the quality and value (financial OR sentimental) of the piece,...
Back in the 1990s, Barney & Carey accidentally got into the furniture repair and refinishing business. Cindy and I were regulars at the highly esteemed Boston steakhouse, Grille 23 & Bar, and we became friends with the general manager, Tim. One day, he...
While our experts do a lot of furniture restoration, we rarely get to work on a piece that is almost 150 years old! 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...
