Traditional Services

Surface and Structural Conservation
Removing surface scratches and watermarks, reviving surfaces and bringing them back to a good colour and original patina. Repairing loose, dried-up, and broken joints to ensure structural integrity.

Traditional Finishes
Fine Wax Finishing, lightly polishing and oiling using historically appropriate methods and materials. These traditional techniques enhance the character of each piece while providing long-lasting protection for future generations.

Marquetry and Veneer Work
Repairing lifting or damaged veneers and intricate inlays with careful attention to original detailing.

Drawer, Door & Carcass Repairs
Resolving issues such as stiff drawers and consolidating joints, runners, and interiors to restore functionality and longevity.

Locks, Castors and Hardware
Conserving and gently reviving original fittings to maintain authenticity. When necessary, crafting perfectly antiqued replacements to match the period character.

Consultation & Collection Care
Offering expert advice on maintenance, including guidance on appropriate light levels, humidity control, careful handling, and proper storage to preserve your collection.

Discreet, Courteous and Efficient

A Subtler Sense of Home

A NEW SERVICE

For many years, I have been entrusted with the care and conservation of cliens cherished Fine Antique and Later pieces of furniture, quietly preserving their integrity, colour, and soul.

Now, with the same considered hand and eye, I am offering a new, gentle service: a carefully curated house tweaking, not an overhaul, but a sympathetic rebalancing.

Whether it’s a single room or an entire house that feels slightly out of tune, I work with what is already there, refining layouts, adjusting light, reintroducing texture and warmth, so that antiques sit more easily within lived spaces, and homes begin to sing again. This is not interior design in the conventional sense. It is about restoring atmosphere, reawakening feeling, and finding the rhythm that a room once knew.

It’s a quiet kind of magic, just enough to notice the difference, never so much that you wonder what changed.

For those who care deeply about what they live with, and how it’s placed, I would be delighted to help.

Testimonials

  • “Nicholas Hill has restored some of our beloved furniture to its former glory. We are delighted with the results. Thank you so much.”

    — C Fiennes, Dorset, 12th June 2020

  • “A severe overnight flood caused by a water leak inflicted substantial damage to several highly valued and loved pieces of family antique furniture. At very short notice Nicholas Hill came onsite and spent many hours of exceptionally skilled hard labour repairing and restoring all of the damaged furniture to the extent that they looked in better condition than before the flood. I recommend Nick’s work and sing his praises to the highest.”

    — Antony Johnson, Dorset, 17th December 2022

  • “I answered Nicholas Hill’s post, as I needed an antique table restoring and polishing. He could not have done a better job—in situ as well. He is quick, tidy, charming and efficient and I could not recommend his services more highly.”

    — Caroline Clegg, London, 1st June 2022

  • “Nicholas Hill came and restored a badly damaged but modern wine table. He has done an excellent job (it looks like new), so much so, that I am going to have him back to restore some items of antique furniture.”

    — J Drayton, London, 5th May 2020

  • “Nicholas Hill came to our house yesterday and restored several items of our antique furniture to their former glory in situ. Nicholas was charming and easy to have around and I could not recommend him more highly.”

    — J Drayton, London, 16th June 2020

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