How to Start a Furniture Refinishing Business

What You'll Need to Get Started

A home-based furniture business requires many of the same tasks as any other business and a few skills that are specific to furniture repair.You should have experience in furniture refurbishing.You can get started if your experience is as a hobbyist, but you should also be able to understand how the furniture is constructed, as well as the art and era of furniture, especially if you plan to work on antiques. Before narrowing down your business idea, it's nice to know what a typical day would be like. In a furniture refinishing business, there are many different tasks you would need to do, and it's up to you to distribute them across your days, weeks, and months.

For most furniture refinishing businesses, a typical day would consist of stocking their inventory of damaged furniture, planning design ideas, doing market research and deciding what styles and types customers are looking for, refinishing furniture, networking with vendors and potential customers, listing completed furniture in online listings or setting up to sell the furniture locally, and doing work, managing work, and strategizing about work. Here is how it breaks down in the furniture refinishing business. A day in the furniture refinishing business would vary quite a bit depending on your audience. If you decide to do majority custom work, then you'd have more client-facing tasks before creating the furniture.

Advantages of a Furniture
Refinishing Business

You can earn a home-based income working with your hands. You can build a client base working with people who love antiques and are willing to pay for custom refinishing. Set your own hours, whether it's late at night, around your existing job, or part-time as a side hustle. By having a home workshop, you save on the overhead of having to rent a storefront or workshop. If you already have space and equipment to refinish furniture, your startup expenses can be relatively low.

Modern furniture pieces are not of the same quality as the old furniture pieces. The quality has deteriorated over the past several decades, and the highest quality wood is not used anymore except for very specific (and expensive) applications.The inexpensive plywood used today does not last for many years, thus warranting the need to refinish old furniture, which helps furniture lasts longer. Consider restoring antique, high-quality pieces for resale as a cottage business.

Disadvantages of a Furniture
Refinishing Business

There are a few downsides to starting a furniture refinishing business, including: It can take time to build up a consistent clientele. Competition can be stiff in some parts of the country.Pricing your services can be a challenge as you need to figure out the cost of materials, time involved in the work, and your overhead. Because each item is different, with various levels of need, you'll have to provide individual estimates for each piece of work.Furniture repair is solitary work, which can get lonely.Some aspects of fixing furniture can be dangerous, such as toxic stripping agents. You'll want to make sure you use all safety precautions to avoid injury or illness related to the work.

For most furniture refinishing businesses, a typical day would consist of stocking their inventory of damaged furniture, planning design ideas, doing market research and deciding what styles and types customers are looking for, refinishing furniture, networking with vendors and potential customers, listing completed furniture in online listings or setting up to sell the furniture locally, and doing work, managing work, and strategizing about work. Here is how it breaks down in the furniture refinishing business. A day in the furniture refinishing business would vary quite a bit depending on your audience. If you decide to do majority custom work, then you’d have more client-facing tasks before creating the furniture

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