Daniel chapman

Specialist in furniture restoration and conservation of restoring period furniture, using traditional methods and materials whist restoring furniture sympathetically.

I have a selection of period materials including old Timber, Saw cut veneers and brassware.

Hand cut and high quality veneer replacement and repair for furniture and smaller items such as boxes and cases.

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Using period veneers were possible and matching veneers as near as possible, using traditional glues and methods.

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Allowing the natural beauty of the timber to come through the polish, re-polishing your period furniture or sometimes making new timber look old. Using traditional methods and skills learnt over many years, polish is applied by hand and built up over a period of time using a rubber to apply the shellac polish.

Complete cabinet making and wood turning undertaken.

From repairing furniture, making new dining table leaves, wood turning , fixing broken chair joints to building hand copies of English furniture.

Long case clocks can be restored, sometimes including rebuilding the case, veneering, wood turning and missing brassware.

I can also provide contact details for movement servicing.

Full restoration and repair service with a wide choice of leather colours and tooling designs.

I can supply new replacement leather and commonly use skivers for worn out desks with a selection of colour and tooling to chose from.

Often with antique furniture you will see white or black ring marks across tops, those can be usually repaired without having to strip the furniture and loose the patina from it .

Am happy to discuss any issue with you regarding issues like this that you might have and how I will restore the furniture for you.

I can repair some marquetry and reproduce inlays that are missing in furniture.

This can be a common issue found with antique furniture and I often carry inlay lines in stock.

Missing brassware can be supplied and matched to your original items I can also have brass copied to match the original items. Able to supply most new locks and can cut new keys to old locks. Please ask me and I can discuss any question you might have about your period brassware.​

Whist mainly restoring furniture from the 17th-18th century, I am able to repair and restore furniture from Edwardian period, Art Deco, retro and early 19th century .

Smaller individual items restored and repaired - wooden cased clocks, boxes, picture frames re-guilded.

I can repair furniture that has fire or water damage.

In these cases it is best to speak to me so I can establish the severity of the damage.