The Workshop · Wylie, Texas
Six Lines of Work. One Bench.
Wood, finish, fabric and mechanism. Bring the piece, or photographs of it, and we will tell you honestly what it needs.
The services
Where Every Piece Starts
Most pieces need at least two of these at once. A chair that wants re-caning almost always wants its joints tightened first. All of it is done in the shop on Regency Drive, and if you are not sure which applies, send photographs and we will say.
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Antique Restoration
Period pieces brought back without erasing their age. Veneer relaid, carving let in, colour matched to what is already there.
Veneer repair · Custom carving · Wood repair & stabilising · Colour matching
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Furniture Repair
Structural work. Loose joints taken apart and reglued square, split rails repaired, missing parts cut to match the originals.
Joint regluing · Parts cut to match · Welding & soldering · Glass & curved glass
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Refinishing
Old finishes revived where they can be and rebuilt by hand where they cannot, matched to what the piece originally wore.
Stripping & refinishing · Painted finishes · Colour matching · Marble, granite & ceramic
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Upholstery
Down to the frame and back up again, in your fabric or leather, or one chosen with you.
Caning & rush · Fabric · Leather · Seats rebuilt
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Mechanical Restoration
The half of the piece that moves. Clock movements, phonograph and radio works, jukeboxes and recliner mechanisms, not only the cabinets around them.
Clock movements · Phonographs & radios · Jukeboxes & sewing machines · Recliner mechanisms
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Custom Work
Built to your dimensions when the right piece does not exist. Hardwood frames, joined the way the antiques on the next bench are joined.
Built to dimension · Sofas & hardwood frames · Hand carving · Fabric & finish
The process
How It Works
Four steps, and most of the first one happens without the piece leaving your house.
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Send photographs
The whole piece, then the damage close up, then any maker’s mark or label. Rough dimensions help. Most estimates begin and end here.
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We look it over
What the piece is, what has already been done to it, and what it needs. Sometimes the answer is that it needs very little, and we say so.
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The work
Joints apart and back together, surfaces built up by hand, upholstery down to the frame. You hear from us if anything under the surface changes the plan.
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Back in the room
Collected from the shop in Wylie, or delivered. The piece goes home reading as itself, not as new.
In the shop
What Comes In
The kinds of piece the six services usually cover. If yours is not on the list, ask.
- Dining chairs
- Dining tables
- Secretaries & bureaus
- Dressers & chests
- Sideboards & buffets
- Armoires & wardrobes
- Sofas & club chairs
- Recliners & mechanisms
- Caned & rush seats
- Rocking chairs
- Beds & headboards
- Mirrors & frames
- China cabinets & curved glass
- Marble-topped washstands
- Mantel & wall clocks
- Victrolas & phonographs
- Radios & jukeboxes
- Antique telephones
- Sewing machines
Begin
Send photographs of the piece
The whole piece, then the damage close up, then any maker’s mark or label. Call the shop or send them over and we will tell you which of the six it needs.