Furniture Painters in and around Woking

Our workshop is in Surrey Heath, around twenty minutes from Woking town centre in normal traffic. We collect and return across GU21 and GU22, covering the town centre, Horsell, Knaphill, Goldsworth Park, Mayford, and Sheerwater. Old Woking, Pyrford, Byfleet, and Send are well within our regular patch.

If you're in one of the smaller villages out towards Ripley or Bagshot, please — those are straightforward to include on a planned round.

The Victoria Way development roadworks that made central Woking difficult to navigate for much of the last couple of years are finished now. Collection and delivery into the town centre and the streets around it are straightforward again, typically any time after half past nine in the morning. If you're in a flat close to the centre and you're wondering whether access is a problem, the honest answer is that it usually isn't — we've collected from plenty of ground-floor and first-floor flats and know what we're working with when we arrive.

For lifts and upper floors: worth mentioning when you call if the piece is large or heavy. We plan accordingly.

A two-bedroom flat in Woking tends not to have room for a substantial pine dresser. What it often has is an occasional table that doesn't match the sofa, a small sideboard in a hallway that's the wrong shade of brown, or a bedside table bought in a hurry when the flat was first furnished and never quite right since.

These are the pieces people sometimes hesitate to call about, assuming it's not worth the bother. It usually is. An occasional table that's been sanded back, primed, and painted in two coats of Pavilion Gray with a wax finish takes the same care per square centimetre as a dining table, and the result in a smaller room is at least as striking. The piece becomes deliberate. It stops being something the room works around and starts being something the room is arranged for.

We collect small pieces in the same way as large ones — we take them back to the workshop, and they come home painted. There's no minimum piece size.

We've painted a fair number of occasional tables from Woking and the surrounding area — lamp tables, side tables, the lower tier of a two-tier occasional, the kind of piece that migrates from room to room in a house for years before someone decides to do something about it. They're almost always solid wood underneath whatever finish they were sold with, and solid wood is what we work with.

The main consideration with occasional tables is the top surface, because that's what gets touched and looked at. We pay particular attention to the number of coats on the top and the final finish — whether that's a hard-wearing eggshell, a wax, or a two-tone varnish topcoat depends on where the table lives and how much use it gets. We'll ask when we come to quote.

Horsell, Old Woking, and Pyrford have the kind of houses that contain the same furniture we paint across the rest of Surrey — solid mahogany and oak from the 1970s and 80s, pine from later, pieces that were built to last and have lasted. The brief from these collections tends to be the familiar one: the furniture is still good, the room has changed colour around it, and it needs bringing into line.

The preparation work on older sealed pieces takes longer than on bare wood, but the finish is no different. Two coats, a matt or eggshell topcoat, handles refitted, drawers running. The piece comes back looking as though it was always meant to be that colour.

Single pieces — a table, a cabinet, a set of bedside tables — are usually back within two weeks of collection. Where someone has a few smaller pieces being done together, we collect them as a batch and return them as a batch on the same timescale. If the pieces are going back into a room that's being redecorated, or if there's a deadline, tell us early and we'll plan the collection date and / or the delivery date accordingly.