About the workshop

Grain & Mend started with a single broken chair and a borrowed set of chisels. It is still small on purpose: we would rather finish a few pieces properly than many quickly.

Most of what comes through the door is ordinary household furniture, the kind of thing that was made to be used every day. We think that furniture deserves the same care as anything in a museum, and that it is usually cheaper and better to repair it than to replace it.

We use traditional glues that can be undone, keep notes on what we changed, and leave the marks of a piece's life where they are part of its story.