Mid-Century furniture repairs, restoration and reupholstery. Sales and commissions undertaken.
The Old Printworks 498-506 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath
Birmingham
B129AH
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Once upon a time there was a busy mum with 3 kids who got really fed up of flat pack furniture. It was expensive, shocking quality & really environmentally unfriendly. After a house move where kid number 1’s wardrobe collapsed and part of Busy Mums “expensive” scandi style wardrobe broke, she made a pact not to buy that crap anymore.
Busy Mum also had a passion for retro and vintage style clothing and furniture. A lot of retro furniture fell into 2 camps, either ridiculously expensive and/or hideously “Upcycled” items, or largely unloved brown wood items from the local charity shops. Busy Mum thought sod that and decided to have a go at renovating a mid-century gentleman’s tallboy/wardrobe and a rather shabby looking chest of drawers, she later knew to be made by Avalon, which she bought from eBay. The end results were rather beautiful! The quality of the furniture, was far, far superior to flat-packea. A little spark was ignighted....
And so the obsession began! The obsession with where to source furniture, types of wax, of how best to remove old varnish & lacquers, whether to hand sand or use a sander, danish oil, power tools, sheds, G-Plan, Ercol, unbranded and handmade tables and chairs, upholstery, veneer, Ausinsuite, white spirit & meths, Avalon, how best to clean paintbrushes and stop them going stiff, jigsaws and most recently how to finish with Shellac. An organic journey of discovery and passion and clogging up the house with pieces of furniture that she didn’t actually need, but fell in love with anyway!
Busy Mum’s hubby was very tolerant of having to climb over dismantled bits of furniture “stored” in parts of the house such as the shower cubicle or on top of the sofa. Eventually she decided that the best way of being able to continue this passion long term was to sell items on. Moseley Mid Century was born. She only bought things that she loved. She stripped off coats of old paint to discover the dull teak veneer with a few chips, cleaned it all up oiled and waxed so that the light reflected off the grain in that glowey orangey yellow way. Feeling the smooth silky renovated wood made her (VERY BUSY) heart sing. Seeing a piece or furniture sparkle again made her happy!
