Superior quality custom made furniture,
restoration and repairs in Brisbane
From traditional repair and restoration to custom made furniture, Renowned Furniture has the knowledge and experience for all your furniture projects. Our passion is designing and manufacturing hand made, custom designed furniture right from our factory in Brisbane. We take great pride in creating strikingly original custom furniture that blends art with practicality.
FURNITURE RESTORATION BRISBANE
In addition to custom made furniture, our Brisbane Master Craftsmen also offer a comprehensive range of furniture restoration and repair services. If you need a piece of unique furniture repaired or restored, the team at Renowned Furniture in Brisbane is here to help.
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Once your design and materials are finalised we provide you a fixed price quote. No hidden extras – no surprises.
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Found in a Second-Hand Store – Antique Davenport Restoration
How’s this for a find? Our client noticed this antique davenport C.1850 in a second-hand store and snapped it up. We’ve done a careful sympathetic restoration.
The piece had some veneer issues and the faux drawers down the side had a large crack all the way through. The leather top had completely perished due to the age of the piece, and some of the drawer pulls were cracked or missing. Also, one of the feet had come off whilst in transit to us. It was also in need of a full clean.
With antiques in original condition it is very important to ensure that any repair or restoration work is sympathetic to the age of the piece. Generally, whilst it is ok to repair or restore antique items in order to ensure that they retain their value the restorer must keep intact their original character. After all, a piece must be less than 50% restored to be considered a real antique.
Our first step as always is to complete the major repair work. After this the piece was given a deep clean all over. We then finished with a fresh layer of French polish and a replacement leather insert for the top.
An interesting side note to this project – It had clearly been in the home or office of someone of importance as we discovered it had a Chubb detector lock fitted to it. These locks began production around 1820 and were designed to alert the owner to tampering. If someone without the key tried to pick the lock and look at the contents within the lock broke and the next time the owner tried to use his individual key to access the desk it wouldn’t fit and required a makers master key to open it. Only someone who had items or documents of value would have required such a lock!
Antique Huon Pine Dresser Gets a New Lease on Life
The client contacted us to restore a Huon pine dresser that had belonged to her mother.
Some of the damage that needed to be repaired was obvious. There was a crack in the corner of the top section, and some visible woodworm damage.
Once we got to work on it, we found the worms had really gone to work on it and there were further issues that really needed attention.
As the client wanted a full restoration, we had to pull the whole unit apart and work through it piece by piece.
The components were stripped back, sanded up, repaired and prepped for finishing. Then the difficult job of colour matching and blending the old to the new was done by our talented polisher.
A lot of effort went into producing the finished project, but it was all worth it to see another family heirloom restored to its former glory and a smiling happy client.
Tranformations begins…
Updated: June 29, 2016
If you’ve ever wondered what a $270/mt fabric looks like, here it is.
Margaret had us restore a set of armchairs and a lounge chair as part of a full furniture makeover that she’s on. The fabric on the timber armchairs is amazing in the flesh with the gold thread through it, so I guess the price-tag is understandable! They look great.
April 13, 2016
Stay tuned as we transform these beauties…..
