Repair of broken dresser drawers and loose table legs
A vintage dresser needed some mending and a small lamp table needed to be refreshed.
The dressers drawers were damaged during the last attempted repair – as someone used a pneumatic nailer and shot nails into the edges – which fractured the laminate on the inside of the drawers. In this case – short of a complete tear down and rebuild – the cure felt worse than the damage – so they were partially disassembled – cleaned up – re-glued and then reinforced with real nails on the corners.
The sides were also reinforced with new glue along the underside. Completely rebuilding the drawers would have meant refinishing them – and that wasn’t in the cards. The best choice was to make them functional again. It also saved a ton of time and money.
The small lamp table needed a refresh. The legs needed to come off and be re-seated – the base needed to be removed and reinforced and the top surface was redressed to eliminate surface scratches, nicks and bumps. The claw feet needed to be supported as they had worked loose.
It was a short job – and it’s ready to be returned to service. Once again – the most bang for the buck – the necessary repairs for the least amount of money.
It’s just how we roll!
All I can say is, “WOW”! I didn’t have a lot of high hopes for these drawers, only because the piece was so old and so badly damaged from the last shifty repair job. The edges were shot!
But I trust Michael completely, so I sent him pictures of the drawers; and once he had to chance to look at them and assess what he would need, I dropped them off, for him to repair.
His work far exceeded any of my expectations and I’ve seen his work on other things; he is very talented. I just thought the drawers would be beyond an aesthetic repair.
I have a house full of antiques which have been neglected, so when I went to pick up my dresser drawers, I left a table for him and I can’t wait to pick it up!
I cannot recommend him enough!