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Appleyard Antiques has been restorating and conserving furniture and joinery for over 25 years and we pride ourselves on clever craft at a fair price.
We prefer to keep antiques looking patinated and choose to revive old surfaces, if possible, rather than make them like new.
We can take out surface stains and marks without disturbing the patina on your particular peice.
We can also fix anything broken, cracked, loose or missing altogether. Our conservation and restoration uses principles and guidelines to protect, preserve, and restore timber peices to the highest possible standard.
Please contact us for an appraisal. Case Study 1 - Oak Dining TableA client from the Southern Highlands left this large oak table outside under partial cover while his new house was being built. It took slightly longer than he anticipated.  The table top suffered extensive weathering; cupping of the top boards and breaking of all joints. The finish was completely ruined and the timber had become the colour of a fence post. Restoration entailed dismantling the top, replacing the end clamps which had both split, and uncupping the top boards in exactly the same way they had cupped: leaving them face down in the weather for many weeks. After the sun had pulled them back into shape, the top boards were rejoined, reclamped and the whole table lightly sanded and refinished.    Careful hand stripping revealed a lovely figured walnut chest with vertical matched veneer and quartered top, complete with contrasting diamond fruitwood escutcheons. The chest required some timber patching and regluing before light polishing and the addition of some bold period handles. |
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