02 Furniture & Decorative Objects conservation
Furniture
Antiques Housekeeping
Breathe life back into your antique furniture with our on-the-spot Antiques House-keeping service. This service aims at cleaning and reviving furniture in-home. Cleaning and light remedial treatments are carefully assessed during a site survey and discussed throughout with you. Are excluded from this service furniture repairs, invasive restorative treatments.
Wood Finishing
- Treatment of woodworm infestation, flight holes concealing
- Stripping, staining and re-polishing
- Treatment of worn or damaged finishes such as scratches, dents, ring and burn marks
- Surface coatings: French Polishing, Wax finishing, Oil finishing
Repairs
- Loose joints
- Colour matching repairs
- Lifting, damaged veneer
- Splits and breaks
- Missing carving/ detailing
Decorative Objects
Beside objects made from wood, we offer conservation and repair services of 20th c. decorative objects made from a range of materials:
Antiques housekeeping
On-the-spot cleaning and reviving of decorative antiques including lighting, picture frames, objects made from ceramic, metal, or leather.
Painted objects and decorative features
- Treatment of worn or damaged painted surfaces (furniture, picture frames, wall patina)
Ceramic objects
- Epoxy repair of broken or chipped decorative objects made from terracotta, porcelaine, plaster, fibreglass
- Missing detailing and refinishing
Metal and iron objects
- Cleaning of tarnished non-ferrous metal (brass, copper..), forged steel, forged iron objects
- Finishes (patina, painting)
Leather objects
- Reviving of worn leather objects
This service intends to maintain or repair 20th c. decorative objects but does not cover Decorative Antiques requiring specialist restoration.