April 09, 2021

We delivered the furniture a few days ago. As you can see, all of the color work has come together to preserve these fine pieces. This is now a homogenous ensemble—the way it was.

We discovered he original color under some old repairs and used that as our finish sample. We did have to blend a lot of new wood with the original and it was a process over several days. The top coat is a modified acrylic lacquer which has been around for decades. It helps to slow down the ultraviolet stress that wood can suffer from.

We are now down in the lower sanctuary, restore the set of chairs that live there. Same process will be performed. And a note everyone out there who is following this. Never use any form of wax on newly refinished wood furniture, or older for that matter. Clean with a damp cloth or a “no wax” polish.