Are you looking for expert furniture repairs and restoration in Surrey? Do you have furniture or objets d’art that need professional attention to return them to their past glory? Or have some of your favourite pieces suffered from impact, water or fire damage?
At Snelling Associates we specialise in antique furniture repairs and restoration in Surrey. We have been operating from our workshop in Shere for thirty years now and during that time we have worked upon a bewildering array of furniture items and objets d’art. As a consequence, we have years of experience dealing with complex repairs and restoration from dining room tables, wardrobes and chests of drawers to gilded picture and mirror frames.
Repairs and Restoration
– Renew and repair veneers (together with re-colouring)
– French polish and wax surfaces
– Undertake cabinet making and reconstruction work
– Reform defective and damaged filigree and plasterwork
– Reset loose joints (on chairs, tables etc.)
– Carve distressed fretwork and details
– Re-upholster and re-cane furniture
– Restore and strip pine furniture
– Make new turnings
– Restore antiques damaged by fire, water or impact
– Repair, re-gild and re-build mirror and picture frames
We constantly undertake work for insurance companies – with the express aim of restoring damaged items (often very badly damaged items) to their previous condition – and value. This is very skilled work and we take great pride in our ability to remake precisely damaged parts, whether these are turnings or filligre, decorative pieces of woodwork or plaster.
Of course an integral part of our work is to ensure that the patina of a restored item is consistent with the rest of the piece, given its age. This is essential – as the patina of an item is often an integral part of its value. It is, indeed, in this area that clumsy resoration work can end up damaging an antique – the very last thing any owner wants!
So – if you need furniture repairs and restoration in Surrey and are looking for excellent workmanship, a personalised service and work conducted with great integrity then contact me now!
Peter Snelling