Recently at our workshop in Shere we have had the pleasure of restoring some very attractive and unusual items.  This is always a pleasure, as tackling the restoration of objets d’art and select items can be both fun and challenging.  Different technical problems can arise and it is great to have to think our way [...]

Like everyone, I think that a picture tells a thousand words, so I thought I would provide some images of furniture repairs that we have undertaken recently in Surrey – alongside an example of a piece of furniture pre-restoration! As I have mentioned before, one of the nice things about running an antique restoration business [...]

As you can see from the images here, we have had another busy month at Snelling Associates! Indeed, I am delighted to see that people still treasure their antiques as much as ever and continually bring them to us for restoration.  That may seem an odd thing to say but over the years I have [...]

One of the joys of being an antique restoration specialist is that I get frequent opportunities to restore an astonishing variety of items – the latest of which is a London Trolley! As you can see from the picture, my London Trolley is now fully restored and looking absolutely gorgeous and quite different from the [...]

It will come as no surprise to you that, during the course of a year, we receive a good deal of work at Snelling Associates relating to glass replacement – with some of this requiring specialist glass repair and the actual ‘blowing’ of new glass! Of course, one of the problems with antique furniture and [...]

I recently wrote an article here about how we specialise in furniture restoration in Surrey, whilst stating that a good proportion of our work relates to the accidental or careless damage of surfaces.   Classic causes of this are the placing of hot mugs on wooden surfaces or vases of flowers with wet bases.  Both result [...]