The Road to Hallmark

I began to learn this repair and refinishing trade as a high school student, working after school, Saturdays, and during the summer for three years. Subsequently, I graduated from college as a textile engineer and had a 34-year career in the textile fiber business.

Retiring early, I purchased Hallmark Finishing Service in 1990 and returned to a trade I had continued as an ameteur throughout the intervening years.

At Hallmark, we have developed many new and special ways of repairing broken and damaged furniture. We make specialty parts, where missing, in order to retore pieces to their original (and improved) condition. We also keep up with the new techniques for stripping, and for applying and using modern precatalized laquer finishes, especially when high moisture and heat resistant applications are needed.

We invite you to visit Pepperoni's Tavern at 4190 Old Milton Parkway, Alpharetta, to see one of our largest and most unique refinishing and restoration jobs, a massive, antique bar.

By contrast, bring us your rickety chairs and let us show you new gluing techniques that will solve unsafe sitting hazzards.

We do almost everything except upholstering. We enjoy a challenge, so bring your tired, shabby, formerly beautiful, much loved furniture and let us make all things new!!

Finally, I would be remiss if I did not give God the glory for this business. He alone gave me a gift -- the skill to work with my mind and my hands. He has provided me with customers who have become my friends and encouragers. To see and hear their delight in a job well done is confirmation that He meant for me to be a craftsman and a servant.