Furniture Refinishing

An easy way brighten a room on a budget is to use Altomare's furniture refinishing services. Your dining room table will look cleaner. Your TV stand will no longer be a distraction in the room. When choosing between furniture refinishing techniques, you can opt for painting wood furniture or staining the wood instead. Altomare's Furniture Services, located in Norristown PA, can offer you both types of wood finish repair assistance and still others to give you the feeling that you have new furniture without spending thousands of dollars to do so.

Hand Furniture Stripping or Flow System Furniture Stripping

Depending on the age and value of your furniture restoration project, the old finish may be hand stripped or stripped using a flow system. Altomare's Furniture Services uses the method that is best for your furniture refinishing needs. With hand furniture stripping, a gel remover is coated on to the old paint finish of wood finish and then scraped off with steel wool. Depending on the type of finish it is, Altomare's Furniture Services will make sure to apply the right kind of solvent to your furniture so as not to harm the wood or the designs on it. With flow system furniture stripping, the furniture is put in a tray and a hose is used to pump the stripper to wash over the furniture. Once the piece has been stripped, it will be sanded smooth again.

Types of Finishes

• Wood finishes (dead flat, flat, satin, semi gloss, high gloss)
• Shellac
• Lacquer
• Paint finish(spattering)
• Varnish
• Oil (tung oil)
• Polyurethane
• Wax
• Colored glazes

Distressing Furniture

Distressing furniture is the opposite of antique restoration or furniture restoration. While furniture refinishing makes older wood look newer, distressing furniture makes new wood look older. The finish can be sanded and chipped to give a vintage look to a newer piece.

Pickling or Glazing Furniture

Over time, color fades. Like the color on the siding of a house, time and weather can dull paint finish or wood finish. The same thing happens to furniture with time and use. A beautiful wood finish can fade and give your furniture a dusty look to it. Pickling or glazing furniture is a way of using furniture refinishing techniques on old or faded wood to revitalize it to its original color.

Pick Up and Delivery to the Northern Suburbs of Philadelphia, PA

Altomare's Furniture Services will pick up and deliver your furniture pieces for wood furniture repair in the surrounding Philadelphia area and are interested in our furniture repairing and furniture refinishing services, including the Pennsylvania Main Line and Eastern Main Line. If you are outside of the Philadelphia, PA area, please call us or send an email to see if arrangements can be made for picking up and delivering your pieces. Services are available to the Norristown, King of Prussia, Lansdale, Plymouth Meeting, Conshohocken, and Doylestown areas.