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House Calls

  • Repair of loose hinges and detailing

  • Realignment of doors and trim repair and blending

  • Installed new locking mechanism and keyhole cover and provided the owners with a new set of keys

  • Glued down cracked veneer, hand sanded, stained, and finished on site

  • Will, owner of D’Aquila Restoration and experienced restorer, in action

  • Modified the keyhole cover to hold a knob, brass trim reattached and secured

Plaster Mirror Repair

  • Broken plaster mirror in the clients home

  • The frame was broken at the joints

  • And the work begins!

  • Stabilizing the joinery

  • Recreating the plaster pieces

  • Plaster repairs before gold leaf

  • Finished mirror back in the clients home

  • Finished mirror back in the clients home!

Strip & Refinish

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Customization

  • Foyer console made to custom measurements from reclaimed bargeboard sourced here in New Orleans.

  • Black and Gold Chairs - In Progress

  • Black and Gold Chairs - Finished Project

  • End Table turned CPAP Machine Holder

  • Custom dining room table

  • Family crest repair

  • Reconstructed trim on antique farmhouse table