Mike's Furniture Restoration & General Woodworking

This Rocking Chair is similar to others on which I have previously worked. They are very interesting chairs and at times challenging...

These chairs were generally in good condition at the start, apart from the joints becoming loose and the finish coating not doing justice...

This is a set of four saman dining chairs, with a seventy year history. The aged finish was completely removed and splits in the wood...

This Saman Coffee Table required a complete disassembly as all joints had failed and the table top was out of square and bent, bellying...

This is an old commercial display cabinet. The doors were not closing or opening correctly. The brass hinges were removed and polished,...

These chairs were very weather beaten with many failing joints, with the seat bottoms rotted away. New seat bottoms were made, the chairs...

This Table was very weathered with loose joints. The table was completely dismantled and stripped of old finish; the table top was...

The bent-wood chairs needed some repair work on the joints that had rotted with weathering and time. The finish was a "Polyurethane Satin...

This Chair needed only stripping of the old finish, sanding and re-finishing in polyurethane satin varnish. It had to be completely...

This 40 year old chair was badly weathered with every joint either loose or damaged by decay over time, with attempts made of keeping it...

This was a set of four side-tables stored in a carrier, that allowed it to be relocated easily. The tables and carrier had to be stripped...

These four chairs are part of a set with table. The first thing to be done was strip away the old varnish finishing on each chair, and...

These Egyptian/Arabic Stools were stripped of a dark finish, sanded and detailed. Cleaning revealed all the Bronze inlays and the...

This chair is composed of Salmon and Cedar wood, not many repairs needed. After stripping away the old finish it was sanded and finished...

This Morris Chair at first view appeared an easy, quick fix. However after stripping the finish a number of joints showed up loose and...

This Chair was not too bad structurally in appearance before I removed the original dark finish; but as common with many of these...

This project required adding leg extensions to the stools to raise the seat height by 6 inches, and to refinish. Deceivingly the stools...

This Lounge Chair is made out of different types of Cedar - Red & White. Apart from two loose joints on the top bar the chair was in good...

This Chair was an interesting repair, simple at first but revealing many needed repairs after the old finish was stripped away. The...

This very old Carved Table was in a bad way after being stripped of its dark finish which appears to have been used to hide shady...