Furniture Restoration of Marin is located in the Canal district of San Rafael. It offers restoration services of wood and metal furniture pieces. The store provides estimates of the work to be done from either customers' homes or from furtniture brought into the store. It does not handle upholstery restorations.
Eric Clingen is keeping the tradition of old-fashioned woodworking alive is his sunny studio just off of the Main Street. He says his nightmare would be "running plywood through a table saw." Instead, he's barely using power tools, but repairing and restoring antique and vintage furniture. Chairs hang from the high walls and a heavy dining table waits upside down for his attention. As a musician on the side, he also started getting into repairing and selling fine-stringed instruments. Clingen sells a few select early American pieces but repairing items is what he's been known for since 1985.