Minuteman Furniture Restoration, LLC

I can’t say enough to thank Carl for the outstanding job he did on our grandfather clock case. I was just planning to have the minimum done to freshen up a 100+ year old family treasure. But when Carl discovered the beautiful oak hidden under layers of dark lacquer, we opted to have it restored. Don quoted me a very reasonable price, and the clock was finished in time for my wife’s birthday. We are so pleased with the final result!

I recently had the pleasure of doing business with Don Butler and the team at Minuteman Furniture Restoration in Granby CT. I needed to restore a family heirloom, a Victorian parlor chair from the late 1800's. I called around for quotes and after speaking with Don, Minuteman appeared to be a great match. He is professional, knowledgeable, and an all around good guy. They replaced the seating, repaired the mahogany wood frame, and did a full reupholster. It was a beautiful job and at a very fair price. I expect this chair to hold up for at least another 150 years. Thanks Don and Minuteman!

My parents table with a veneer top was dropped by the movers off the truck. The end of the table was crushed. I called Don and he explained the veneer table is a difficult repair. I was not surprised by his response, because several repair shops did not want to even attempt the repair. Don explained the repair and the repair came out beautifully. Thank you for your help on repairing my parents table.

My wife and I have an antique dining room table with five leaves that opens up on a system of sliders to 108 inches. The table belonged to my wife’s grandmother, so there’s a great deal of sentiment involved. The table’s sliders had broken, preventing the table from opening or closing properly; the tabletop was also long overdue for refinishing. Don Butler was able to repair the existing sliders, saving the time and expense of ordering a new set. He also did a beautiful job of completely refinishing the tabletop, as well as re-coating the five leaves to match, and the match is perfect! He also kept to a timeline that allowed us to pick up the table in time for a previously-scheduled family dinner, and his price was reasonable for the work he performed. I highly recommend his restoration

I trusted Don Butler sight unseen with some of the most precious furnishings that we have, and I was not disappointed. We had an American Mahogany dining set that needed a lot of work to restore it, including broken pedestals, a surface marred by improper pedestal installation - you name it. The results were nothing short of a miracle. An additional side chair that was badly damaged due to a mishap in the journey to his facility was restored to near-perfect condition also, which was also a miracle given how badly it had been damaged. His subcontractor for upholstery did an excellent job also with installing some new seat bottoms for the dining set with very fussy tacking. Now Don is working on a antique rocker in bad need of repair, and I have no reason to doubt that the results will be ex