A visit to the workshop will show you the collection of furniture that we are currently restoring. Once finished, many of these items will emerge as new stock in the showroom, but we are also regularly asked to repair and rejuvenate old family treasures or newly discovered pieces. Please ask if you have any items hidden away that deserve a new lease of life, and we will be happy to discuss your requirements.

We have been restoring furniture since 1981, and, having worked for the National Trust for Scotland, examples of our work can be seen in many stately homes. The original basis for the business was our speciality of restoring split-cane and rush seated chairs, and we have expanded over the years to incorporate a wider range of furniture and antiques in both workshop and saleroom.




Split-cane, first introduced into this country in 1660,was imported from the Malay Peninsula by the East India Co. and has been used as decorative panels in chair backs, with caned seats to match,and other domestic furniture, sofa's, bedheads, screens, and "anything where lightness, elasticity, cleanliness and durability ought to be combined" (Shereton-Cabinet Dictionary 1803 ).



Rush, on the other hand, is a native perennial which grows throughout Britain. Rushes have been used for many centuries, indications of which have been discovered in Egyptian Second Dynasty Tombs, but certainly since the middle ages rushes have been used for chair seating, basket work and floor matting.