Fay Furniture Services Inc.

05/28/2026

05/20/2026

We get our paint samples from Benjamin Moore but have them made up in a custom finish. We stopped by a store to find a paint swatch to match a drawer to a small bedside cabinet. We picked out this 891 afterwards we had them scan the drawer and they landed on the same color. 40 years of color matching, we still got it!

05/13/2026

This why preservation of good furniture is important. My father refinished this buffet 35 years ago. Today we're bringing it into the shop to do some touch up and replace a few pieces that broke off in those 35 years.

05/11/2026

Gave this very old fireplace surround new life!

05/05/2026

Got lucky and had a big piece of quartersawn oak veneer that was big enough to cover this fire place top. The original was oak but not quatersawn and not as pretty as this new one.

04/21/2026

When customers come by the shop often times they have to come through this office. Usually they ask "Is this your office" to which we say "No, it's the cats'".

02/12/2026

One of our amazing customers wrote this fantastic article about the history and importance of a good piano!

by Marie T. Sullivan Worried about AI? Consider taking up the piano. I harbor no conspiracy theories about AI. No doubt it has excellent uses. But surely in some ways it will make us stupid: by doing our writing for us, for example. How I love this line from Evelyn Waugh’s Helena: He [Lactanius] d...

01/15/2026

What do you think is this blanket?

01/14/2026

For my next trick, I need to make the one on the right look as good as the one on the left...

01/09/2026

I'm glad they used the small nail.

01/08/2026

Absolutely in love with this sheet music cabinet built in Rockford, IL! It was in rough shape when we got it and the mechanism to pull the shelves out with the door was missing. We always enjoy a good challenge like this and an opportunity to keep a piece like this alive!