Furniture restoration and French polishing in Essex
The piece you have been meaning to sort out for years, put right by somebody who does this for a living. 12 furniture restorers and French polishers in Essex.
All 12 in Essex
Grouped by town, the towns with most first. Nobody can pay to move up it. Each card shows the work it covers, and a business with more than one address is listed once.
Chelmsford 3
Other towns 9
Questions people ask about Essex
How many furniture restorers are there in Essex?
We list 12: Lomas And Pigeon in Chelmsford, Elsdon And Son Ltd in Dunmow, Peverel French Polishers in Hatfield Peverel, Richard Hopkins French Polishers Ltd in Chelmsford, Finewoodfinishers in Halstead, Alan Waite French Polishing & Wood Finishes in Brightlingsea, Millrace Furniture Restoration Co-operative in Chelmsford and Welham Furniture in Clavering, and 4 more. 9 of them have a website of their own, 11 show a phone number and 9 show opening hours.
Who does French polishing in Essex?
All 12 we list in Essex name French polishing: Lomas And Pigeon in Chelmsford, Elsdon And Son Ltd in Dunmow, Peverel French Polishers in Hatfield Peverel, Richard Hopkins French Polishers Ltd in Chelmsford, Finewoodfinishers in Halstead, Alan Waite French Polishing & Wood Finishes in Brightlingsea, Millrace Furniture Restoration Co-operative in Chelmsford and Welham Furniture in Clavering, and 4 more.
Who is nearest if nobody on the Essex list can take the job?
The nearest furniture restorers we list beyond the 12 on this page are Halford Restorations in Bishop's Stortford, about 18 miles away, Bumpstead Antiques & Interiors, Antiques Dealers Suffolk in Sudbury, about 20 miles away and Antique Renovations in Sudbury, about 23 miles away. Distances are in a straight line from the middle of the Essex businesses listed here.
Can I learn restoration in Essex?
There are 3 woodworking courses in Essex on this site. Finishing and repair come up on a good number of them.
Restoration in Essex, in numbers
12 restorers across 10 towns. 12 of them name French polishing, which makes it the common thread here as it is almost everywhere. After that it is spray finishing (3), antiques (2) and wax finishing (1). Cane or rush seating is scarce here, offered by three businesses or fewer, so for those jobs expect to send a piece further than you would for a repolish.
9 have their own website, and for 3 we hold no site of their own so the link goes to their Google listing. 9 describe their own work in their own words; for the other 3 we are going on the trading name alone, and the listing says so.
The broadest range of skills we hold in Essex is at Lomas And Pigeon in Chelmsford, which names French polishing, period specialism, spray finishing and wax finishing: a sensible first call if your piece needs more than one thing doing to it.
Lomas And Pigeon in Chelmsford, Elsdon And Son Ltd in Dunmow and Richard Hopkins French Polishers Ltd in Chelmsford each describe their work in their own words. 1 business here names four or more separate techniques, which usually means a workshop rather than one person with a polishing kit.
Essex holds 4% of the restorers we list nationally.
What it costs, whether it is worth restoring, and the mistakes that cannot be undone.
The next nearest
The nearest furniture restorers we list beyond the 12 above, nearest first, measured in a straight line.