The Finisher’s Touch

Our story starts with a little history. I inherited some Danish furniture from my mother many years back and neglected it for all of those years. This included leaving some of the chairs outside and using the coffee table for school projects. Recently my wife and I decided it was time to get some nicer furniture so we went shopping. Much to my utter surprise, it was going to cost around $ 10,000 to replace the teak furniture I had with comparable items. On top of that, I discovered a sentimental connection I never knew I had to the table I grew up with. So my wife suggested we look into getting it refinished. She is a Unilocaler and a patron of Angie’s list, so she spent hours hunting for what appeared to be the perfect place. We were looking for a craftsman who loved his work and appreciated the furniture we had. We could not have found anyone better than Avi.
My wife arranged for an appointment so Avi could come see the furniture. From the first handshake I knew she had done perfect in her search. His expertise with our particular furniture was obvious as he knew the complete history of the style and was able to describe the pieces in detail, before even seeing them all. What you get with Avi is thousands of hours of experience putting out a pride-​driven finished product. He loaded the pieces into his truck with great care, despite the not so great state they were in.
Much to my surprise, we got a call less than two weeks later to set up a time to deliver the pieces back. He dedicated countless hours in a priority mission so that we could have them in time for Thanksgiving. When he delivered each piece, it was like they were brand new. They looked beautiful, the blemishes were gone, and the furniture all felt sturdy. The transformation was beyond anything I ever imagined and it was clear that they were beyond anything we had considered buying a few months earlier. His work is clearly driven by pride. He offers a very fair price for the quality he delivers. There are so very few true craftsmen left, so we feel incredibly lucky to have had our nostalgic pieces refurbished by a true artistic master.
What wraps it all together is the amount of pride Avi took in his work. He stayed as my wife and I shuffled the pieces around our living room and dining room to share with us the artistic beauty of the furniture. It is amazing how great they look now. There is not a big enough thank you I could give to Avi in appreciation for his labor of love.
If you have old, vintage furniture that you love, then there is no one better than Avi. The amazing reviews that influenced us to use his service (sans the one out of the blue comment from a poster below) were all spot on. He is an artist first and foremost, and his medium is classic furniture. If we ever get any more Danish furniture from the 60s or 70s, there is absolutely no one else I would ever trust more.
If you read this Avi, thank you so very, very much!!! You made our Thanksgiving!

Avi has reupholstered 5 antique and vintage chairs for me over the last 25 years. They have held up well. Don’t let the disarray of his store put you off. He is very professional and skilled. He has good design ideas, having done this for so many years. He always does a perfect job. I wouldn’t trust anyone else with my family heirlooms. He also has repaired and refinished the wood parts, sometimes without me thinking of it. Avi has also picked up and delivered the larger chairs for me.

Absolutely love this place! Avi is the best there is for refurbishing and reupholstering your once new or newly found flea market finds. He practically furnished my house. Sweet man, lovely store, great prices and outstanding customer service.

Avi is not only outstandingly good at what he does, but he’s a genuinely kind man with a huge heart.
The STORY: living up in Ojai and desperately needing a repair on chair seats before renting the house out this week, I’d seen The Finisher’s Touch a number of times driving up Lincoln to LAX. Over the weekend we did a family trip down to San Diego and dropped the seats in for Avi to work his magic. When I gave them to him, they were old tatty vinyl seat cushions, but they came back looking LITERALLY brand new. On top of that, Avi knew it was going to be tough for me to pick them up again (driving from Ojai with a 10 week old baby), so he worked all day on the Saturday and went out of his way to arrange for me to be able to pick them up enroute back up to Ojai on the Sunday. So rare to encounter that combination old-​world craftsmanship, kindness and integrity.

I highly recommend The Finisher’s Touch based upon two excellent experiences that I’ve had with Avi (the owner). He is truly a skilled craftsman who is able to repair, restore or refurbish all types of fine furniture. Just recently, he did an amazing job replacing the leather buttons that had popped off a really nice piano bench of ours. Avi is very trustworthy and dependable — — - two extremely important qualities for someone to whom you entrust your fine belongings. Rest assured, Avi will do a careful and complete job.

I went here because of the few good reviews. I was totally shocked by how bad the work ended up being. I took a small wooden table frame that had cracked due to moisture to Avi. He said he could use clamps and glue to fix the two large cracks for $ 125 bucks. The price seemed high but having a finisher take care of this meant it would be done correctly, right? Wrong. I came back to pick up the piece a week later and his clamps had scratched and dented the frame is 8 places. Compression dents and scratches on the surface and sides of the table because he was careless when putting all the clamps on. The finish of the table was wrecked. I told him this was unacceptable and he said that he could re-​finish the table for me for another $ 150 bucks. Total scam. He wrecked the finish of my table and then tried to get me to pay to have him re-​finish it. I’m never coming back here and I sure as hell won’t have him do any work for me in the future.

Avi did a fabulous job refinishing an old mahogany table that is a family heirloom.
He took tremendous care with it. He did it all by hand. The table looks absolutely beautiful. He’s an expert craftsman and has been doing this all his life. His price was reasonable, and the table was ready even sooner than he had promised.
He is also a really good person. We feel lucky to have found him. We recommend him most highly. He’s a gem.

Avi is a fine craftsman in the old world tradition. He retrieved a forlorn oak table we’d bought at a store closing in Culver City and delivered it to his shop– all via phone arrangements prior to meeting face to face. Before refinishing the ugly duckling he required us to bring a wood sample in the color we wanted. Within a week he had stripped, gently bleached and sealed the thing. He required us to view it before the final stage when changes could still be made. He is TOTALLY passionate and knowledgeable. The end result is fantastic!!! He delivered it to our home. His fee is based on hours and he is great at giving a real estimate. I highly recommend Avi and would use him again in a nanosecond.