Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, July 18, 1995 TAG: 9507180047
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Location: on Alum Spring Road in Pulaski, call ahead for an appointment
Phone: 994-0801
Hours: Flexible
Products and Services: Beville specializes in building and repairing small furniture items and refinishing antiques. He guarantees his work, and so far "no one has fussed" in two years doing business, he said.
Many of his customers are senior citizens, especially women. Because of that, he visits prospective customers, examines their furniture and makes an offer. His costs range from $45 to $50 for a chair to about $150 for a dresser. He refurbishes kitchen cabinets for about one-third the cost of new cabinets. "Sometimes I win, and sometimes I lose," he said. Refinishing is his forte, and antiques are his favorite furniture. His house is filled with them, he said.
Owner's Biography: Beville, from Matoaca in Chesterfield County, graduated from Emory and Henry College in 1989 with a degree in applied mathematics and from the College of William and Mary in 1990 with a master's degree in operations research and mathematics. He then designed software for the Navy.
Beville, 28, moved to Pulaski when he got married. He started Fine Restorations because he had the experience, having worked in woodworking shops in undergraduate and graduate school, and because he had become disenchanted with software work. He is also a part-time instructor of math at New River Community College.
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