Furniture Workshop

Super secret caning lair run by Mr. Sheets, who will tell you your wooden chair used to cost $ 5 in the 1930 Sears-​Roebuck catalog and that the design in the wood is machine-​pressed, not carved. He’ll also hover at the screen door and overhear you saying to the people who make pretty custom lampshades next door that he’s cheap and then confront you with your words the next week as you stand confused and embarrassed. But he *is* cheap. And good. He charges $ 25 per basic recane — it’s the pre-​woven stuff as opposed to hand-​woven, which feels about the same to my undiscriminating bum. If you have a chair with individual cane holes, he can convert it to the slots needed to pop in the pre-​woven cane for another $ 25. Every other cane repair shop I called wanted between $ 75 and $ 200 just for recaning, even the machine kind, those bullies! We like our old independent dudes in the Mission.
Some may be put off by his gruff manner, but he’s got a soft grandpa heart underneath that frown and enjoys a good chat — as long as it’s about wooden furniture.