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Category Archives: Restoration

We Are Rockin’ and Rollin’

The last 14 months have seen a lot of changes at Zeh’s Custom!  We went from it being my wife and myself and my best friend and former next door neighbor to having 2 interns for the summer and back to just the 3 of us.

We turned out approximately 4 dozen projects during 2018, and I can’t wait to share the stories with you.

Most recently, we’re working on a 150 year old mahogany table for a client that finally allowed us to put a technique into practice that we learned about a long while back, and have had no need to use!  We had the privilege of working with the President of our Nature and Science Museum to repair and refinish a table made by a local artisan from a 100+ year old Elm tree that was felled by lightning.  We’ve brought back to life a dozen tables from all eras with all manner of stories behind them, and we even had the privilege of creating a brand new table for a client that had just welcomed their second child.

From north to south we serviced clients over a 150 mile range and from east to west we’ve worked about 75 miles.  We’ve had opportunities to provide pieces for a local Church, for a local school, and for families looking to create new memories with their families on pieces they used when they were children.

Be on the lookout for new posts, and a return to tips and techniques, and maybe even some fun personal anecdotes.

Family Heriloom Refinish

Bringing family pieces back to a new life are some of my favorite projects to take on.  Several years ago, my grandmother passed away, and my parents brought back several of her pieces of furniture among the other items left to us. One of those pieces was this sweet little table with the beautiful edge…Continue Reading

Front Door Repair

The upside of having someone you know with a specific skillset and a business built around those skillsets is that you have a built-in source of informaition and expertise, and even occasionally an expert to care for your needs. Zeh’s Custom Design is that expert for many people in our lives. One such person was…Continue Reading

Legal Conference Table

Every so often, things happen that require our intervention.  One such occasion occurred when a local Busines Services company had an employee inadvertently damage a table at a client’s location.  The solvents they used to clean the printers and other office equipment had been left atop a 100 year old quarter sawn oak table the…Continue Reading

Roll Top Restoration

2 years ago, we had the extreme privilege of bringing a 100+ years old roll top desk back to life for a client.  Since that time, we’ve had the honor of working with over 100 clients to bring their pieces to life, but none so much a puzzle as that desk. We were recently contacted…Continue Reading

Family Heirlooms Restored

Many of our clients bring to us pieces that have been inherited.  Grandma’s kitchen table, Grandpa’s antique shotgun, or Great-Great-Great-Aunt’s spinning wheel. We were privileged to restore such a set that our client had inherited from her late grandparents.  The set, from a long-gone Texas furniture manufacturer, had been at their ranch house for as…Continue Reading

Bay Window Restoration

As we expand our horizons, we’re often presented with situations where we get to do work on-site for our clients.  One such situation came up when we were asked by a property owner to repair a bay window seat damaged by the elements.  Over the course of time, sun and water caused the finish to…Continue Reading

Maple & Mahogany Table Restoration

We were contacted awhile back by a client who’d suffered a house fire.  They lost just about everything and were rebuilding their house.  The few pieces of furniture that didn’t get damaged during the fire included a beautiful maple table with mahogany inlay, with a sleek modern feel to it.  The wood of the table…Continue Reading

Cherry Table Restoration

As we all know, there are always those family pieces that are passed along to a grandchild, and in some cases, they arrive very well-loved, needing repairs and sometimes new finish. Such was the case with the antique dining table that we were asked to restore.  This double-drop leaf table had 8 leaves that allow…Continue Reading

Stickley Table Restoration

A customer found us by doing a Google search, and called us to ask us about refinishing a Stickley dining table she’d picked up for a song at a garage sale.  The table sits in their south-facing kitchen area and gets beat upon by the Colorado sun year-round.  It had taken a beating, and the…Continue Reading

Customer Reviews

Customer Review (Howard & Joan H., Lakewood, CO) - 

"The most important reason to work with ZCD was that I saw the before and after pictures of the restoration job you did on that antique bench. I have seen period furniture and you restored it to an original new condition. That combined with the quality I saw in your new furniture ventures convinced me that you were a great craftsman and you also had the discipline to keep antiques as antiques and restore them to their former beauty and not try to modernize them."

"What Joan and I and our kids saw was a much loved family heirloom which was given to you (ZCD) in a beat up and broken condition restored to its former beauty and usefulness as we remembered it. You even used square nails which Joan loved. Your restoration will provide our family with many more years and perhaps generations of enjoyment of the marble top chest/cabinet."

"You are a great craftsman who is both creative for new designs and yet has the self-discipline to channel that creativity into carefully restoring antiques to their original glory. So if you have a project new or old, Chris can handle it."


Customer Review (Gary & Linda M., Longmont, CO) - 

"ZCD was referred from our daughter in-law.  Chris did a good design for our custom table at a reasonable price."

"A very well built and attractive dining table, and it will last for many years."

"We highly recommend Chris.  His work is first rate and you get a one of a kind piece that meets your specification, instead of a store-bought compromise."