Hand Stripping
At New Life Furniture we never “dip” the furniture in a hot caustic solution. Dipping is very destructive to the integrity of the piece, it will literally unglue the entire piece and make the wood unstable. Hand stripping is room temperature, pH neutral, and is never submerged in boiling hot lye. Hand stripping is the way to go for furniture.
Specialty Finishes
Furniture manufacturers produce many different specific types of finishes. Finishes can be period to a specific time in keeping with an antique restoration or a very durable hard conference table top finish which would be inappropriate to a restoration job. Specialty finishes can also be a painted finish in a very specific color, sheen, and nuance. New Life Furniture can execute most all finishes.
Touch-ups
Sometimes furniture just needs some preventative maintenance before it gets to the point of needing an entire refinishing job. Touch-ups or refurbishing the existing finish is a good alternative, especially when the overall look of the piece is good.
Top Refinishing
(Burns, White Marks, Black Marks)
Tops of furniture normally take the majority of the wear and tear while the sides and front still look good. If you have white rings from drink glasses or burns or black marks, there is no need to discard a perfectly good piece of furniture when all that is needed is to refinish the top.
Polished Refinishing
to Match the Rest of the Piece
Furniture can be subjected to many different elements: perhaps a dresser side has been sun-faded from being next to a window; pets can chew and claw a lower portion of a case piece or table leg. New Life Furniture can even refinish a single drawer face to match the existing non-damaged drawers.
Veneer Repairs
Furniture makers have used veneer on furniture for hundreds of years. It is a method of displaying highly figured wood grain on a piece of furniture. There is nothing bad or negative about owning a veneer piece of furniture. Occasionally a veneer repair is needed whether it has a lifting problem or a chipping/missing area. New Life Furniture can make a professional repair.
Drawer Alignment
Drawers and doors open and close thousands of times and eventually areas start to wear at their point of contact. Depending on the age and type of construction of your pieces that need drawer work, New Life Furniture can repair/replicate a period correct repair for worn drawers and tracks.
Complete Makeovers
As styles change, a piece of furniture can be transformed by changing the color or type of finishing. New Life Furniture can reconfigure the design and functionality of the piece. We have altered and reconfigured many pieces at our shop.
