Here are some more items and some most shops would
think were beyond saving but even if your family heirloom
has been abused we can rebuild and restore it back to what
it once looked like. Saving a piece of your family heritage for
your kids and their kids and so on.
This commode came in missing parts and covered in black
paint. Dating from the civil War I restored the missing parts
and stripped the paint that was put on about the early 1900s.
Then it was sanded and stained back to its original walnut
color. It was nice to save such a lovely piece as below.
Pulled from the loft of a small barn this mahogany bookcase
desk came in dusty and dirty as seen in the before picture. But
after stripping the blackened finish off it was finished in a rich
deep mahogany finish as you can see on the after picture.
After starting to attempt to refinish his Grandma's old oak
Kitchen cabinet a customer brought it to the shop as seen in
the before picture. I repair the roll and the joints that were
needing it. Then the piece was stripped and finished back to
the original golden oak color and the inside repainted to
match how it was painted as seen in the after picture.
Left to fall apart on a back porch this oak bookcase desk
came to the shop missing over 1/3 of it parts. They were
reproduced from salvaged oak board from the same era.
Then refinished and restored back to a nice oak bookcase
desk that someone's family will enjoy for years.

So no matter how bad a piece seems with some hard work
most can be saved and passed down to future generations.
This lovely quarter sawn oak buffet was dug out of a basement where
it had been for over 30 years. The doors and drawers wouldn't open
so they had be finished so they would work right. Then the finish had
started to turn white from the moisture it was exposed to. So it was
refinished and the lovely quarter sawn aged quarter sawn oak revealed
once again.
These chairs came from a lawyer's office in a nearby town. They
needed to be glued and refinish. You can see the before and after