www.gentlehandsrestoration.ca
Ontario
Toronto GTA
Durham Region
Furniture Maker, Repair, Cleaning
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Gentle Hands Furniture Refinishing Antique Restoration Furniture Painting. Furniture Stripping, Furniture Repair, Veneer Repair, Kitchen Cabinet Door Refinishing, Furniture Parts Fabrication, Antique antique restoration Conservation, Teak Furniture Restoration, Chair Caning and Cane Inserts, Painted and Faux Finishes. I have always watched "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and I truly believe that each person in this world is unique and that everyone has a "gift" and that we all have to figure out what our gift is. refinishing wood furniture. During the 90's my husband's job was downsized. He was offered a position teak furniture restoration newcastle in Washington State and so we decided to move. They have a lot of replica hardware. Exceptions to this would be large restoring antique beds dining room sets, complete bedroom sets, pianos, and extremely heavy pieces of furniture. Lee Valley is another place we look for faux painting on furniture unusual or replica hardware. Soon i was going to every yardsale, furniture refinishing estate sale, garden sale and auction to purchase pieces of furniture that were either in terrible need of a refinishing job or needing repair. I went out to all the local antique stores and gifts stores to find places to sell this furniture and before long I was selling my restored antiques in many local stores. Welcome to Gentle Hands Restoration. Furniture Refinishing, Furniture Painting & Antique Restoration. Van Dykes Restorers is a place we buy a faux finished furniture lot of our hardware from. Also, while I lived in Washington I was very lucky to have met a wonderful artist named Helma Raycher. Originally Helma was from upstate New York but had moved to Enumclaw, Washington to be near her son and daughter-in-law and their refinish antique furniture children. Helma taught me some restoration techniques that I will always be eternally grateful to her for. Services include. Gentle Hands Restoration offers many teak table refinish services to the Durham Region including Newcastle, Bowmanville, Courtice, Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Ajax, Pickering, Uxbridge and Port Perry. After 9/11 we had no choice but to return to Canada. Not that we don't love Canada but I was sad to give up my business and all of my friends at my circle of antique stores. At that point, we moved to Kemptville, Ontario and "Gentle Hands Restoration" was born. Within a year, my business was booming in the Kemptville/Ottawa area. This is a great place for finding treasures. . At that point, I was selling furniture at repair furniture "Country Bows" in Osgoode and "Dawn's Closet" in Smith Falls as well as "Reruns Annex" in Ottawa. Mostly though I was doing restoration work for customers. I developed a large and happy clientelle. Our shop is licensed and insured. As long as the furniture will fit into our van and we need refinishing furniture only make one trip. We have recently connected with a local furniture repair bowmanville company called "Two Men and a Truck" who do those pick-ups and deliveries for us. Ever since the early 1980's, I have been an avid collector of antique furniture. Many times I carried home items on my back that I found in the garbage during chair caning "Clean-Up" week. Sometimes, when I found a piece of furniture that needed extensive repair and restoration work, I got the most satisfaction in turning a piece of furniture deemed to be "garbage" into the beautiful piece that it once was. It is like watching the transformation of the ugly duckling into the beautiful swan. All of a sudden I was incredibly busy. I was not only buying and selling furniture but I was doing restoration work for many people from Seattle, Tacoma, antique restoration whitby Auburn and Buckley. There is a reasonable additional charge for this depending on the location of the furniture. restore furniture. When antique restoration ajax my children were small and I needed some downtime, I could be found down in our basement working on my latest project. As my experience grew, I began doing work for my family and friends. In 2004, my husband was offered employment with the same company that he had worked for over 20 years. furniture repair port perry We decided to make the move back to the Durham Region area. The best part about the move was that we were able to buy a house with a large shop. We now have a large, heated, dust free area for doing the finishing work. Our shop in Newcastle, Ontario is located at 3455 Concession repairing antique furniture 3. We also provide services for Port Hope, Cobourg, antique restoration oshawa Lindsay and Scarborough and surrounding areas
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