“When my uncle returned from the war in the 1940’s, he saw an ad in the paper for a walnut dining room suite in the Gates at Armstrong Point, one of the oldest, stateliest residential areas in Winnipeg.  The dining room suite belonged to an elderly lady, the matriarch of one of Winnipeg’s founding families, who was selling her home and moving in with her daughter.  My uncle bought the suite and moved it to his mother’s home in East Kildonan.

The dining room suite was the centre and heart of my grandmother’s home for 40 years, and we enjoyed extended family dinners at the table, all three leaves in use, most Sundays until she was in her 80’s.  In 1984, my grandmother moved to a retirement home, and my husband and I purchased the dining suite from her and brought it to our new home.  The first thing we did was to have the table top and buffet top refinished.  Since that time, the dining room suite has been moved to 8 different homes in 3 different provinces and states, and the table top finish was crackling (from extreme temperature changes during moves) and marred in places.

I found AM Furniture Finishing by googling for “fine furniture refinishers near me”.  I Emailed Andy, and with photos I’d sent by Email, Andy was able to provide a refinishing recommendation and estimate for the table as well as the captain’s chair which had a crack in one of the back legs.

When the table was finished to Andy’s satisfaction and the chair repaired, he called and asked me to come to his studio and have a look.  Upon seeing the table, I was absolutely blown away.  I don’t think the table looked that good even when it was brand new.  The finish was like glowing, liquid satin and the grain shimmered in the light.  The refinishing job was beyond perfection.

There are very few craftsmen left in this world who have the talent, the experience, the expertise and the professional integrity of Andy and Meena.   I highly recommend their work and you can certainly trust them to do justice to your finest, most treasured pieces of furniture.”