This is a question that is often asked when pictures of furniture are sent to us.  Usually the customer wants to know: Can I buy a piece of furniture for less than the refinishing cost? After the piece is refinished, will the monetary value of the piece be worth the investment? The answer to the first question is typically YES.  In today’s market of new furniture there is such a wide range of prices for furniture that looks nice, a...

  At Furniture Medic we “flip furniture” every day for customers. Customers bring us furniture they want refinished, repaired, re-upholstered, or restored. The end result is always something that is much nicer and/or more valuable furniture than we were given.       The thought occurred to us….why not look for pieces similar to what customer bring us every day and restore them ourselves and then sell the restored furniture....

A worker bee is only as efficient as her workplace. That was the idea behind the popular 1920’s Hoosier cabinet, which sped meal delivery with metal-lined flour bins, cookbook holders, a calendar, a grocery list wheel, and a flour sifter—plus handy nutritional charts. Message to Mom: Time is money, so get organized. Legacy: Cabinets with blind-corner pullouts, built-in spice racks, and Tupperware organizers....

To dream is “To conceive as possible; imagine” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dream) Some of the fun projects we do at Furniture Medic include turning Dreams into reality. Customers will send us pictures of what they “conceive as possible” and we make the dream come true. Following are a few example of how we have made this happen: Our customer found her dream on a designer website and sent us a picture along with the picture of the dresser...

This past month I became very aware of trip and fall hazards both inside the home and outside the home. My parents, both 80, were gardening and at the end of the day were returning to the garden shed with a wheel barrel that had an unbalanced load. As they approached a brick walk that is in the center of the yard my father’s feet got tangled up and he fell and broke his femur. Thankfully he will fully recover. I am more aware of tripping...

  As I have been considering this month’s blog I have been thinking about memories.  Are memories important, what purpose do they serve, are memories important to preserve?  Memories can be jogged by a simple smell of a warm chocolate cookie baking in the oven.  Perhaps the smell of that warm cookie brings back memories of childhood when mom was baking in the kitchen.  A smell of burning wood around a camp fire can bring back memories of a...