Millrace Furniture Co-operative

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Our e:mail address of [email protected] has been restored, therefore you may resume using it.
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This quality 1920s solid Oak chest of drawers was a pleasure to work on.

It has been continuously used for 100 years, with the beautifully figured and well chosen timbers being badly in need of a good clean.

After cleaning the dry timber was fed with oils and wax to produce gorgeous lustre to the finished piece.

This lovely Edwardian Mahogany dressing table has had over 100 years of use.

It was dirty and had been damaged through continual use, especially to the top. The colour had faded and was looking very tired and sad!

After an extensive clean with spirit and a re-polish with French Polish, it has come back to life!

After upholstering this lovely armchair there was enough of this beautiful floral fabric left, so the customer asked us to cover this small side chair as well.

This lovely Victorian Carved Walnut ‘spoon-back' Chair is one of a pair, the other you can just see behind it, and have come in for restoration and re-upholstery .

The new green velvet has been carefully put on the back with the deep buttoning technique where buttons, with a covering of the same fabric as on the chair, are sewn in deeply and folds are created in the fabric to give a pleasing diamond effect.

The seat is nearly finished on this one before tackling the other one of the pair!

This Lovely set of 4 ‘Queen Anne’ Style Dining Chairs have been recently restored and re-upholstered to calico stage.

They are currently for sale on Ebay at a starting price of £49!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324792466437

They are great value and are waiting for your choice of top fabric if you would like to bid for them!

This impressive Georgian mahogany bow-fronted chest of drawers was donated to
us by a former customer.

It was painstakingly restored, re-polished and sold at auction. The money will be used to help fund our Community project.

This lovely Arts and crafts movement beech chair has been repaired, re-polished and the seat is being re-rushed.

This Oak1920s Display cabinet, with lead glazed doors, has been completely stripped of its original finish to reveal the lovely honey colour of the natural Oak. With just a few coats of a shellac based Lacquer and finished with beeswax pa

This beautiful set of Queen Anne Style Dining chairs have been restored and are now being re-upholstered.

The fabric chosen is hardwearing and wipe clean.

This 1920s wooden framed ‘Rocking’ armchair has just been fully Upholstered at our workshop In this wonderful colourful William Morris design fabric.

This wonderful old deck chair (used on Ocean going Liners) has been repaired, re-caned and given

A few coats of French polish and its waxed up as good as new!

This Comfy Armchair has been given a new lease of life and been fully Upholstered with a delicate floral fabric at our workshop at Moulsham Mill.

This 1930s Beech Piano stool has been fully restored and upholstered by students on their City & Guilds course at our workshop at Moulsham Mill.

It is up for sale at The Art Place in The Meadows Shopping Centre on Chelmsford High Street

It hardly seems possible that it is more than 20 years since we were commissioned by The Meadows Shopping Centre to make this Oak Bench, specifically designed for the elderly and infirm.

Made in Reclaimed Oak for the Millennium, it is upstairs at customer services for elderly people to use whilst waiting for transport.

This rather battered Victorian white painted 5 drawer Chest was a donation.

It has been listed on Ebay for a quick sale to make room in the workshop!

It will make a wonderful Upcycling project for someone.

The finished rushed seated chair

This Lovely Victorian Childs Chair is now finished and looking great. With the cane work back complete, a new upholstered pad-seat and some coats of French polish and finished with beeswax polish.

This wonderful set of modern Mahogany Dining Chairs have been restored and re-upholstered.

They have just been sold on Ebay and all monies will help towards the running of our small business.

This Edwardian “Medallion” back Chair has come in for the back to be re-caned. The central wooden lozenge is held by the cane and the pattern is continued around the centre piece.

This is a highly skilled and complicated work to do but gives a great effect when complete.

This beautifully comfortable armchair came in for re-upholstery. The deep buttoned back (quite a complicated procedure) was the last thing to be done and it is ready now for the customer to pick up.

This is a lovely Victorian Mahogany Childs Chair. It has come in to be Re-caned. You can see the small holes around the seat frame and the back through which the cane is woven in a particular way so as to form the hexagonal pattern common on these chairs.

It is quite expensive to do and if you count the individual holes and multiply by £1, it will give you the price to complete simple patterns (more complicated ones are more expensive!)

These lovely Beech chairs, with carved backs are being Re-Rushed.

The rush material is wound round the seat frame in a certain order and rush lengths are used as packing between the layers to give a more comfortable padded seat.

This wonderful Edwardian parlour settee is being reupholstered. The backs are done with an elegant light grey fabric, and now a layer of polyester will be put over the re-upholstered seat to give extra comfort before the top fabric is applied and a suitable braid is applied to finish off the edges.