Service Levels
Check out the four levels of service we offer to meet your furniture restoration needs.
Long considered one of Raleigh Durham’s most reliable furniture repair shops, Mumford Restoration has the experience and knowledge to repair old furniture or damaged furniture to its original splendor.
With more than 150 years of combined experience, Mumford Restoration tops the list of talented craftsmen for Raleigh furniture repair stores.
Don’t trust your precious pieces with just anyone. With more than 150 years of combined experience and third-generation craftsmen, Mumford Restoration is trusted by families, museums, and art societies in Raleigh-Durham, all of North Carolina, and across the U.S., to provide best-in-class restoration and repairs of sentimental & fine-furniture, antiques, and family heirlooms.
Mumford Restoration offers restoration expertise, professional damage assessment, and estimated retail value on items (not structures) that have been damaged from fire/water, moving, and other types of commercial/residential damage.
We make it easy to connect with us about your restoration or repair—let us know how we can be of service to you and your family!
At Mumford Restoration, furniture is more than a piece of wood. Alive and rich with history, it provokes our fondest memories. From Raleigh-Durham to the coast and the mountains, North Carolina families, museums, and art societies entrust us to preserve their treasured antiques and heirlooms—keeping memories alive for generations to come.
With over 100 years of combined experience, our craftsmen are meticulous in period-correct preservation and restoration of fine-furniture and antiques—from historic brands such as Thomas Day, Eastlake, Drexel Heritage, and Duncan Phyfe to iconic styles like Federal and Empire. You can trust us to work miracles to restore your family memories.
Check out the four levels of service we offer to meet your furniture restoration needs.
Learn more about our furniture restoration process and how to get started!
Check out some of our amazing furniture restorations here.
10 questions to ask now to help you decide if it's time to restore your treasured pieces.
What furniture restoration services are you in need of? Whether it’s a sentimental, solid wood piece like Grandma’s dining room table or a non-sentimental, high-quality piece like a Stanley bedroom dresser—if your wood furniture needs to be refinished, repaired, or completely restored, we can bring your treasured pieces back to life. Check out some of our most amazing furniture restorations in our before and after gallery below!
We offer four (4) service levels to meet every furniture restoration need you may have. Scroll down to review them.
How do you know which level is best for your precious piece? It depends on several factors:
How do you visualize it when it's restored?
What is your intended use for the piece(s)?
What type of damage it has suffered—breaks, veneer damage, faded finish, water/fire damage, etc.?
What quality of wood or material is it?
If you’re not sure what level of service your piece may need, our Restoration Consultants can evaluate your piece(s), understand more about your goals and your vision, and guide you with custom furniture restoration options to meet your specific needs.
Click the button below to tell us about your piece(s) and a Restoration Consultant will be in touch soon to discuss restoring your furniture.
Full Restoration
Our Restore level of service is the crème de la crème of our wood restoration services. When we are conducting this service on a piece, we are completely restoring it, in its entirety. From repairs to broken legs or loose veneer, fabrication of moldings, and regluing of joinery, to removing the finish by hand, (not dip stripping) to hand sanding, hand staining and finishing. This comprehensive service restores a piece to the best condition possible. This produces a showroom quality result to even the most deteriorated pieces and will last for decades upon decades with proper care.
Disassemble
Remove finish
Evaluate piece for repairs
Reglue joints
Repair veneer or re-veneer surface if needed
Fill dents that are too deep to sand out
Ensure doors and drawers work as best possible
Hand sanding
Staining to any color
Finishing with best quality lacquer
Hardware polished/partial polished
Our Refinish level is designed for pieces that have not deteriorated structurally or on sub-surface levels. For example, newer furniture that has been damaged or worn, or older furniture that needs refinished but does NOT need repairs, regluing of joints, repair of veneer, etc. We hand strip, hand sand, stain and finish the piece, producing beautiful results and a finish that will last many years.
Disassemble
Remove finish by hand
Hand sanding
Hand staining to standard colors or original
Finishing
Hardware cleaned
Our Preserve level of service is ideal for wood furniture with a finish that is still in decent condition and there are no deep scratches or dings that are through the finish into the wood that would require a full restoration. For example, if we did a Preserve level of service on an end table, it would include the following:
Disassembly
Solvent Wash
Wet-sanding if needed
Touchup dents and scratches
Recoat part or all of piece
Refinish part of piece if specifically designated in notes
Our Repair level of service is perfect for furniture that only needs minor repairs such as:
Localized repair / touchup
Doweling and other reinforcement
Re-glue of joints if designated in notes