Allerton Custom Framing

Awesome framing place. Most reasonably priced in the neighborhood. They do a great job and are fairly quick and quite helpful.

Great family owned frame shop.
Very good customer service as well as framing
Much more reasonable than other frame shops in area
Remember, a lame frame is a shame!

I have used Allerton several times and all times i have been attracted to their services and professionalism. Each time that i came in i was treated warmly and had great experiences with its staffs.
The frames looked great and they did and excellent job of finishing everything with very sincerely and caring.
I am proud to have my flea market finds finally hanging on my wall.
I gave them 5 stars becoz what they suggest or advice u totally affordable, good behavior, professionalism, what they says they give that. So u can trust on them. And finally again, you do get what you pay for…

This place is, without a doubt, the best place to go for quick, affordable, and high-​quality framing. I cannot say enough good things about this place. I have taken every single artwork of mine requiring framing to them for four years now and they have done an excellent job each time. They have been in the business for over a decade and are very professional. I’m rather indecisive and they are incredibly patient and helpful. I highly recommend them!

I’ve taken almost all of my frame repairs and replacements to them, as well as a couple of new framings for some odd-​shaped/​dimensional work and they’ve done good work every time. Their own suggestions for styles I usually dispense with, and I can’t claim they’re the best at understanding what you’re trying to go for if you’re describing a project. If you need someone to hold your hand through the whole process of selecting frames, mats, etc, this might not be the ideal place. However, if you’re comfortable picking out frames, mats, and glasses, they do very good, affordable (I usually find them the same price or slightly cheaper than the other neighborhood framing galleries), and QUICK (when you need it) work.

They advertise «museum quality custom framing». Now I don’t know what museum they are referring to but never in my life have I seen so poorly framed art and such lack of professionalism in a musuem. After spending over $ 300 on custom framing for a vintage map I was pretty happy about I decided to bring them the rest of my framing needs.
First, a new matting. I bring my measurements without bringing the original frame nor the art. Granted I screwed up because my measurements were off and I ended having to redo the whole thing. This time I bring the old matting and the art with me and ask for an off-​white matting instead of white. The day I’m supposed to pick up my order, the guy opens the package and surprise it’s the same thing I had left them, my old matting and my art. Ooops, they forgot to do the work. He apologizes and asks me to come back the following week. Which I do. This time, surprise, it’s not the right color. ‘Am I sure I’d ask for off-​white? Uh, yea, I’m sure, you even showed me different off-​whites I was supposed to pick from. Oh okay, no problem, come back next week. Now that’s where I should have stopped but silly me asked for more.
The following week I finally pick up the finished matting (right color but strangely very thick… the guy had taken upon himself to give me this type rather than the one I had ordered, citing better quality matting. I find it odd that he can take decisions like that without consulting me first but at this point I don’t even ask questions anymore) and I also bring a quite expensive piece acquired last year from a well-​known up and coming artist. Dumb. I mean I had gotten fairly affordable quotes from Lee’s and A.I. Friedman which I should have sticked with. But hey, Allerton is family owned, mom & pops neighborhood shop and I wasn’t gonna give them grief for a silly matting. Wrong. I picked my frame, tried to bring the price down a bit and was offered museum quality glass which I thought was very thoughtful as well as great deal for $ 400.
Back home I decide to put my first artwork back into its frame with the new thick matting which I hadn’t asked for. Surprise. I find one wave on the paper in the middle of the piece. I’m furious but too too tired to argue. I decide I won’t call them, won’t tell them. I’m getting sick of them and sick to my stomach thinking about my expensive art still at their shop. I expect the worst. Granted. When it’s time to pick it up this is what happened: each of the 4 sides of the frame have a different size border between the frame and the white of my piece, ¹⁄₈ of an inch here, a bit more on this side, a bit less on that side, the bottom part is the best: they managed to cut the number of my piece (it’s a numbered limited edition)! I will save you the ensuing argument as I’m already getting tired of this review and probably you are too. They redid the job that’s for sure, but not without me and another customer in the shop explaining to the owner how to do it so all four sides would be even. One more week of torture waiting to see if i will get my art back and in what condition. Well that’s how I got it back: two scratches on the frame, and one dirt patch on the back of it which i had to scrape with my finger nail, oh and not to mention a botched frame cutting job which resulted in paint chipping at the cut site and sligthly but clearly revealing the wood of the frame.
The bottom line: great little place to frame an inexpensive poster and for people who are not looking for perfection, people who know exactly what they want and don’t require the expertise, the skills or the advice of a professional. The family who runs the place seems nice enough and that too is
for for these two reasons they get 2 stars. This is definitely not museum quality framing, and as a matter of fact I wonder if they ever set foot in the Chelsea galleries nearby. I took my next project to A.I. Friedman yesterday and I can only hope I did the right thing.