Old Village Furniture & Decor

Features in your Decor:

Old furniture is the new vogue in home decor fitting seamlessly into both modern and heritage interiors. Now you can take the best of traditional style elements and combine them with modern styles and concepts to create the perfect rooms for living in beauty, harmony and prosperity. The authentic rich patina of old pieces sourced from villages within the Meditteranean and Indian Sub-Continent will add richness to your decor. These pieces, so rich in culture and blended together with your own decor can create for you the “Wow” factor and become a wonderful conversation piece in your home.

Heritage Furniture:
These unique pieces are sourced from overseas and are typical of domestic ware often crafted for the expatriate market. The design style reflects their European Heritage. Traces of the original pigment may still be in evidence. These pieces have met the Australian Customs Department entry certification standard and are classified as antiques.

Restore or not restore – That is the Question:
Controversy surrounds the restoration of old furniture pieces. Should furniture be refinished to look as it might have looked the day it left the carpenters workshop a hundred or more years ago?
Both collectors and experts disagree, but it is widely accepted that most buyers are looking for a decorative piece to accent their home and need it to blend in with their decor. They want furniture that looks clean and polished and not as if it has been just dropped off the back of a truck.

Most furniture has broken components and stains however professional restorers take exceptional care to carry out repairs and retain the patina of the piece thus accenting its historical significance. The beauty of the piece is then enhanced by finishing the surface patina with natural wax.

The goal of restoration is clear: To return the piece to the condition that would seem to be in character with its estimated age. No one advocates leaving furniture in its “as found” condition. Surely this would deprive the world of what is hiding below its grey and dismal exterior.