Furniture restoration and French polishing in West Midlands
The piece you have been meaning to sort out for years, put right by somebody who does this for a living. 28 furniture restorers and French polishers across West Midlands.
28 furniture restorers across West Midlands. Pick your county: each row opens with five from that county, the ones you can reach and that say most about their own work, and the link beside it shows everybody there. Nobody can pay to be in a row.
Furniture restoration in Staffordshire
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Questions people ask about West Midlands
How many furniture restorers are there in West Midlands?
28, of which 17 have their own website. Every one names the work it does rather than just calling itself a restorer, which is the bar for appearing here at all.
Who does French polishing in West Midlands?
25 of the 28 restorers we list in West Midlands name French polishing as part of what they do. It is the traditional shellac finish used on Georgian and Victorian furniture, and it is repair work as much as finishing: reviving a tired surface rather than stripping it back. The same firms often name french polishing and period specialism too. We take no fee and no commission from any of them.
Can I learn restoration in West Midlands?
There are 19 woodworking courses in West Midlands on this site. Finishing and repair come up on a good number of them.
Restoration in West Midlands, in numbers
28 restorers across 19 towns. 25 of them name French polishing, which makes it the common thread here as it is almost everywhere. After that it is antiques (10), spray finishing (3) and wax finishing (2). Colour matching, veneer repair, floor sanding, cane or rush seating, marquetry or inlay and woodworm treatment are scarce here, each offered by three businesses or fewer, so for those jobs expect to send a piece further than you would for a repolish.
14 have their own website, 3 run a Facebook page instead, and for 11 we hold no site of their own so the link goes to their Google listing. 18 describe their own work in their own words; for the other 10 we are going on the trading name alone, and the listing says so.
The towns with the most are Birmingham (4), Solihull (4), Stoke-on-Trent (3) and Burton-on-Trent (2). A further 15 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 West Midlands is at Timothy Warr Antique Restoration Staffordshire in Rugeley, which names cane or rush seating, French polishing, marquetry or inlay, period specialism, veneer repair and woodworm treatment: a sensible first call if your piece needs more than one thing doing to it.
Timothy Warr Antique Restoration Staffordshire in Rugeley, Simon Russell French Polishing in Birmingham and Pap Antiques & Restoration Ltd in Stourport-on-Severn 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.
West Midlands holds 9% of the restorers we list nationally.
What it costs, whether it is worth restoring, and the mistakes that cannot be undone.