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Furniture repair and restoration in Surrey, antiques and beloved items

Of course, at Snelling Associates, we specialise in antique restoration in Surrey but that should never put you off bringing your beloved objects or furniture to us for repair or restoration. In fact, some of our most enjoyable and rewarding work has been returning someone’s possessions to their previous glory – despite the items concerned not being technically antique. In truth, I have always been a little disparaging about the word ‘antique’ when referring to furniture and objects over 100 years old. This has always seemed rather arbitrary to me and ever more so as the years have rolled past and items that would have been dismissed when I was young now having come well within the over 100 year ‘antique’ classification. As I am only 20 years off a centenary myself, you can see my point – which is that age does not always define quality! Actually, what has…

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Antique restoration in Surrey, it is all about patina!

One of the problems if you want antique restoration in Surrey is: who to use? This is a vital question to ask yourself when you require restoration of an antique that has significant value – whether sentimental or monetary. After all, the last thing you want is for your item to be repaired poorly or, almost as bad, unsympathetically. In fact, the repair and restoration of antiques is exceptionally challenging because the work involved goes well beyond ‘repair’ in the normal sense of the word. Indeed, the actual ‘repair’ of an item can sometimes be the easy part of the work. Much harder can be ensuring that the repair is invisible and that the orginal texture and patina of an item are recreated so that the value of the whole piece is preserved (both aestheically and monetarily). Of course, everyone knows about the importance of patina and the critical part it…

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