Furniture Restoration in Turlock, California

Our shop is at 301 Maze Blvd in Modesto, about fifteen miles north of Turlock on Highway 99. Restoration is not a same-day trade, so the distance matters less than it would for a service call — but it is close enough that dropping a piece off, or having us collect it, is a morning rather than an expedition.

Because we also move pianos and furniture for a living, pickup and delivery for Turlock jobs is usually straightforward. A dining table with a loose apron does not need to ride in the back of a pickup with a moving blanket over it and hope.

Turlock is an old agricultural town with deep family roots, and it shows in the furniture. We see pieces that came west with a family and stayed in one house for decades: hope chests, buffets and sideboards, treadle cabinets, dressers with real dovetails, dining sets bought for a farmhouse and used hard for fifty years.

The second common thread is estate furniture. When a long-held home near downtown or out in the county changes hands, the family often keeps one or two pieces and wants them made right before they go into a new house. That is exactly the work this shop was built for.

The third is student-town wear and tear — a university in the middle of a city means a lot of good older furniture passed around and knocked about, with joints that have given up long before the wood has.

Not everything needs the whole treatment. A repair fixes structure and leaves the finish alone. A refinish deals with the surface — stripping, sun damage, water rings, or paint over good hardwood. A full restoration is both, plus veneer, missing parts, hardware and upholstery.

You do not need to know which one to ask for. Show us the piece and we will tell you which it needs, and we will say so when the honest answer is the cheaper one. There is more detail on the furniture restoration page.

Turlock summers are long and bright, and the two things we see most often are sun-bleached tops on anything that sat near a window and finishes that have gone brittle and checked with years of heat cycling. Neither is a reason to give up on a piece; both change how it should be refinished.

Dry heat also opens joints. A chair that racks when you sit in it usually does not need new wood — it needs the old glue cleaned out and the joint re-glued and clamped properly, which is a different job from squeezing adhesive into a wobble.

Nixon's Oak Tree House has been family-owned in Modesto since 1991 — about 35 years. Bob, Jenny and Dick are the people who look at your piece and the people who work on it. There is no queue of subcontractors, and you get a straight answer about what a piece needs and how long it will take.

You can see completed work on the Before & Afters page — all our own. When you are ready, call (209) 524-6349 or request an estimate and send a photo.