Custom Wooden Chessboard with Storage Drawer for Heirloom Pieces
A customized wooden chessboard crafted to complement and store a set of handmade heirloom chess pieces passed down through generations.
Real transformations and the family stories that make furniture worth preserving.
A customized wooden chessboard crafted to complement and store a set of handmade heirloom chess pieces passed down through generations.
When a ten-drawer chest suffered moving damage and structural sagging from a heavy television, its owner faced losing a matching eight-piece bedroom set. Learn how we restored its alignment and reinforced its foundation.
When a beautifully built Buddhist shrine arrived too tall for an 80-plus-year-old mother to safely reach, Nafees Creations stepped in to help. We carefully modified the structure with three precise cuts, lowering the top from 6.5 feet to a safe 53 inches.
A beautiful wood dining table ordered from Canada arrived unsealed, leading to accidental stains from daily use. We stripped, sanded, and sealed the tabletop in the client's Iowa Colony home to provide lasting protection.
A pair of cherished family chairs from Galveston underwent a complete restoration. Nafees Creations provided pickup and delivery, stripping down the worn frames, sanding the wood, and rebuilding the padding and fabric to preserve generations of memories.
A cherished hundred-year-old wooden chair is carefully disassembled, cleaned of degraded historical adhesive, and structurally rebuilt with modern bonding techniques to preserve its utility and sentimental value.
When a long-time Pearland resident decided to relocate close to her church, we refinished her cherished solid oak and cherry furniture pieces to ensure they were ready for decades of continued service in her new home.
An heirloom baby high chair passed down through generations is restored and refinished with child-safe, zero-VOC coatings for a new family arrival.
A couple married for 55 years brought in one of their first furniture purchases: a worn aluminum and cedar glider patio set. We meticulously sandblasted away decades of old paint, treated the new wood with a protective poly resin, and restored it to its original glory.
A childhood rocking chair arrived in pieces just before the birth of a new baby. Its restoration became a surprise connecting a grandmother, her daughter, and the family's newest generation.
A vintage swivel chair purchased at an Atlanta auction followed its owner to Houston. When its bearing mechanism failed, we rebuilt the chair with new steel bearings, period-style casters, and a handcrafted genuine-leather seat.
A devastating fire swept through a historic ranch near Fulshear, damaging a lifetime collection of antique furniture and heirlooms. This ornate mirror became one of the pieces reclaimed from the destruction.
A solid-oak secretary desk emerged from the Fulshear ranch fire structurally intact but heavily scorched. After replacing a failed hinge, we stripped it to bare wood and restored the natural oak finish that had survived beneath the damage.
A mother purchased a dresser and mirror through Facebook Marketplace, planning to refinish them for her teenage daughter. We transformed the exterior and rebuilt the drawers with new bottoms and backs for reliable everyday use.
After a rear joint failed, one chair from a family dining set spent nearly fifteen years in the attic. When the family's daughter moved to Austin to study pastry arts, she chose the old set over buying new furniture because she wanted to take a piece of home with her.
After years in commercial storage during a prolonged divorce, a man discovered that the table he had built with his father decades earlier had suffered severe termite damage. Although replacing it would have cost less, he chose restoration so his children could inherit a piece of their family history.
A husband had promised his wife for years that he would restore two cherished pieces for their bedroom. After she passed away, he fulfilled that promise, preserving this chair's original stamped leather and renewing its wood finish.
Years of age had already taken a toll on this coffee table when a hand truck carrying a refrigerator struck it and broke one of its legs. We rebuilt the leg and corner skirting, then refinished the entire table so it could return to daily use looking whole again.
The original low-quality casters on this home-office chair failed, but ordinary replacements would not fit. All five replacement casters were specially milled to fit the chair correctly before the repaired piece was delivered back to the customer.
A move left this family dining table so unstable that it could not be safely reassembled. We rebuilt the damaged base stronger than the original and returned the family gathering table to its home.
One of the main supports on Melinda Perez's nearly new bench snapped. We replaced the entire failed member, reinforced the frame, and restored the bench like new—stronger than its original construction.