Furniture restoration and French polishing in Somerset
The piece you have been meaning to sort out for years, put right by somebody who does this for a living. 10 furniture restorers and French polishers in Somerset.
All 10 in Somerset
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.
Questions people ask about Somerset
How many furniture restorers are there in Somerset?
We list 10: Célia Frachon Furniture Restorer & French Polisher in Bath, Pye Antiques Restoration in Bridgwater, Hamilton & Hodson in Bristol, Parker Parker Furniture Repairs, Restoration & Upholstery in Taunton, MJ Bradford French Polishing, Re-laquering & Furniture Restoration in Weston-super-Mare, Charles Henderson, The Handrail Restorer in Frome, Allium Furniture in Taunton and Charlie & Celia Furniture Restorers in Frome, and 2 more. 9 of them have a website of their own, all 10 show a phone number and 9 show opening hours.
Who does French polishing in Somerset?
All 10 we list in Somerset name French polishing: Célia Frachon Furniture Restorer & French Polisher in Bath, Pye Antiques Restoration in Bridgwater, Hamilton & Hodson in Bristol, Parker Parker Furniture Repairs, Restoration & Upholstery in Taunton, MJ Bradford French Polishing, Re-laquering & Furniture Restoration in Weston-super-Mare, Charles Henderson, The Handrail Restorer in Frome, Allium Furniture in Taunton and Charlie & Celia Furniture Restorers in Frome, and 2 more.
Who is nearest if nobody on the Somerset list can take the job?
The nearest furniture restorers we list beyond the 10 on this page are French Polishing and Restoration Services in Sherborne, about 21 miles away, Alastair Thomas Furniture Restoration & French Polishers in Station, about 23 miles away and French Polishing UK in Bristol, about 24 miles away. Distances are in a straight line from the middle of the Somerset businesses listed here.
Can I learn restoration in Somerset?
There are 11 woodworking courses in Somerset on this site. Finishing and repair come up on a good number of them.
Restoration in Somerset, in numbers
10 restorers across 8 towns. 10 of them name French polishing, which makes it the common thread here as it is almost everywhere. After that it is antiques (8), marquetry (3) and veneer repair (3). Gilding 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 1 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 one we are going on the trading name alone, and the listing says so.
The towns with the most are Taunton (2) and Frome (2). A further 6 towns have a single restorer each, which is worth knowing if you would rather not put a piece in a van for an hour.
The broadest range of skills we hold in Somerset is at Pye Antiques Restoration in Bridgwater, which names French polishing, gilding, marquetry or inlay, period specialism and veneer repair: a sensible first call if your piece needs more than one thing doing to it.
Pye Antiques Restoration in Bridgwater, Charlie & Celia Furniture Restorers in Frome and Parker Parker Furniture Repairs, Restoration & Upholstery in Taunton each describe their work in their own words. 2 businesses here name four or more separate techniques, which usually means a workshop rather than one person with a polishing kit.
Somerset holds 3% 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 10 above, nearest first, measured in a straight line.