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The two of us

A family shop for furniture with beautiful bones.

The Restory is a family shop: a mother and her daughter-in-law who never could walk past the water-ringed oak dresser or the wobbly chair with beautiful bones.

Those pieces come home with us. They get stripped, re-glued, refinished and polished by hand, and they leave better than they arrived.

Not made to look new, made to look loved.
Oil finish being rubbed into an oak drawer by hand
Every finish goes on by hand.

How a piece gets here

Found, restored, rehomed

More on how it's done
  1. The dusty back corner of an antique mall
    I.

    Found

    Estate sales, antique malls, dusty back rooms. The good ones hide: solid wood, honest joinery, a story worth keeping.

  2. Oil finish being rubbed into oak
    II.

    Restored

    Repairs first, then the finish. Stripped, sanded, stained or painted, waxed. Hardware polished, or replaced with period-correct pieces.

  3. A restored dresser in a lived-in bedroom
    III.

    Rehomed

    Photographed, listed, and sent to its next home, ready for another few decades of breakfasts, letters and bedtime stories.

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