Do you want to reupholster the love seat your Great Aunt Kate left you? Looking for a special piece of furniture for a hard to fit breakfast nook? We have the expertise to help you!
J & H Dinettes & Upholstery Inc. is the only dinette store that makes and upholsters furniture in the area. Clients come from as far away as Florida to have such specialty items as kitchen booths custom-made, says Jason Maldonado, whose father founded the shop in 1969.
“Here we can take care of anything. No one can beat us,” Maldonado says. “We can fix and repair any kind of furniture and custom make it. We have a tremendous repeat business.”
Breakfast nooks may be their most popular item. Maldonado says he goes to the customer’s home to take measurements and to help the homeowner design a corner booth. One customer visiting his son in New Jersey came to the shop to have a nook designed for his home in Florida. Maldonado says the gentleman loaded it up and drove it all the way back home to Florida. Maldonado says breakfast nooks are his “niche” in the business.
“I love doing the booths. The people come in with their ideas and photographs and we design it together.”
Restaurants and catering businesses also buy his booths. Maldonado says it is not uncommon for people to travel from New York, Pennsylvania, or Maryland to have him custom make a couch or table. The firm has made chairs and beds for handicapped people as well as tables that will easily accommodate a wheelchair.
Decorators will come to him with their ideas and Maldonado can help them realize those concepts for their customers.
“Service is the best here. The people here are what make it. I have some very talented people who work with me. You’re only as good as the people around you.”
Three floors house the showrooms and furniture and upholstery shops. Besides custom-made furniture, the shop also carries brand-name, factory-made furniture. The biggest trend Maldonado sees in furniture is in the use of glass and wrought iron.
“There’s a lot of hi-tech furniture: chairs in different colors, hand-painted glass.”
Other popular items in home furnishings are Corian and granite tables. These materials are becoming more popular as tabletops because some people are afraid of glass, Maldonado says. Maple is the most popular wood at the moment, he adds.
At J & H Dinettes & Upholstery Inc., we know what we’re doing! Please call for more information. We welcome your questions.
