This painted cabinet was very typical of many 2-door, brown wooden cabinets sold in the UK in the last 40 years. The two doors are small in size with a reasonably sized interior with a single shelf. Below the limited interior there's a single wide drawer that is capacious enough.

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This small two-drawer table is undoubtedly an antique, because it's more than 60 years old, at least. It's well-formed, comprising two drawers and four very well-turned legs. It features some very heavy decoration on the drawer fronts, the surrounds of the table, and also on the table top with some

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This revamped painted cupboard will be familiar to anyone with pine dining room furniture. Or, indeed any pine furniture. Because it's a standard design with two cupboard doors opening into a main interior and a single internal shelf that's two thirds of the way up. Yes, a classic. The build

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This painted sideboard is yet another example of a very fine dining room furniture revamp. It was well-built, probably of English beech, and was very much loved. But the decorations in the home were due for change. And so the brown characteristic colour of the sideboard just wasn't going to

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A much-loved chest of drawers is always a good place to start when you consider restoring your old furniture. Because a new life for old furniture is definitely on the cards as you start the furniture restoration job. Typically they have a standard construction, and are more usually built with

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Traditional rattan and cane furniture has always been a popular choice in homes throughout the country. But alas, the last UK-based manufacturer of cane furniture, Angraves, is no longer manufacturing in Thurmaston and that's a pity. However, there are many surviving pieces of Angraves cane furniture and they still look

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