Hi there! I’m a first-time refinisher and am working on restoring my great-great-grandmother’s Heywood Wakefield desk circa 1940. It’s yellow birch and was originally stained in Wheat, but ...

The Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company began when five brothers from Gardener, Mass., began to build chairs in their barn. I wrote about the history of the company in a March 24 column.