French Polishing,
Repairs and
Timber Restoration
Traditional French polishing for timber furniture that needs depth, warmth and a refined hand-applied finish.
Careful restoration of tables, chairs, cabinets, antiques and heirlooms, with respect for the timber and the story of each piece.
Practical repairs for damaged, loose or worn furniture, from everyday wear to more complex structural issues.
Stripping, sanding, staining and refinishing tired timber furniture to restore colour, clarity and protection.
Thoughtful stain and colour work to match existing furniture, repaired sections, interiors or new timber components.
Durable lacquer, painted and specialist finishes for restored furniture, new pieces, joinery and commercial interiors.
Wholesale Heritage Furniture has employed the services of Grainmaster French Polishing since 2000. We have found Boris to be very reliable, efficient and professional. The majority of our sales are timber based products as we import raw mahogany timber frames for our French Provincial and Antique Reproduction furniture items. Grainmaster offer the service of colour matching. This has proven to be a very valuable tool for our business in relation to our Antique Reproduction furniture. Customers have antique dining tables still in good condition but too often their chairs have to be replaced and colour matched to the table. Grainmaster specialise in the refurnishing of furniture. A dining setting has been completely updated by stripping a polished dining setting and painting the setting in Antique White paint with aging. Grainmaster also offer the service of polyurethane, making it possible to add a unique piece of furniture to a ‘wet area’. We would recommend Grainmaster for French Polishing, refurnishing, painting and aging of furniture. ds which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage.
We are delighted with the restoration of my father's old clock. Boris Basioli did a wonderful job in bringing the wooden cabinet of the clock back to life. It was great to see the original finish of the wood again. We were also impressed with the attention to fixing a warp in the housing which was catching the glass door when it was being opened to wind the clock. It now works perfectly. Thank you so much for bringing back its life together with lots of great memories.
I can’t thank Boris enough for the fantastic job he did on restoring three timber display cabinets. These pieces have been used in my Optometry practice for the last 90 years so had plenty of marks and scratches. Boris not only transformed the cabinets to look like new but also fixed the drawers so they open smoothly. Boris is a true craftsman and very easy to deal with. I highly recommend him.
I haven't enough adjectives to describe how wonderful it has been dealing with Boris. His punctuality and reliability were faultless as was the work he did on two French polished wardrobes of my mum's which were damaged and at least 80 years old. They look stunning. His workmanship and skill is blatantly apparent in these superbly finished pieces. I can't recommend him highly enough.
Boris did a fabulous job on our 1920s Queensland maple family dining table. It was badly scratched and marked from many years of everyday family use. Boris restored the table to its former beauty and we are so pleased with the result. His service was wonderful, from quoting promptly to picking up the table and returning it within just over a week. He charged a very fair and reasonable price, including some repairs to the mechanism for extending the table, at no extra charge. I can highly recommend Grainmaster.
Boris took away our badly battered 1800s partners desk and returned us a piece of historical art. His passion and appreciation for restoring antique furniture needs to be seen to be fully appreciated. The desk he returned to us far exceeded our highest hopes. It is increasingly hard to find master craftsman such as Boris with the skills, knowledge, appreciation and enthusiasm to exceed your highest expectations.
Thank you so much for the great job you did with our chairs. They both look and feel beautiful as does the table you did for us previously.
Our new Tassie Oak kitchen benchtop was saved by our discovery of Grainmaster in Punchbowl. In these days of mass-production, it is good to know that there are still a few master-craftsmen around like Boris, working to create original high quality work. He was able to colour match our existing table-top and provide a polish finish exactly to our specification. Thanks Boris, your workmanship is the crowning glory of our new kitchen.
