Tricks of the Vintage Trade No 1: How to Stop Sticking Drawers

Sticking drawers can turn a simple morning routine into a wrestling match. But the solution might already be sitting in your kitchen cupboard. Drawing on decades of experience selling vintage furniture, here's a remarkably quick, inexpensive trick using ordinary olive oil that could have those troublesome drawers sliding smoothly again.

Why So Many Old Mirrors Look Like They’ve Lost Their Other Half (Because They Have)

For Keys I bought two beautiful 19th Century mirrors this morning at Ford Market near Arundel, you can see them, still dusty in the images. Over the last couple of centuries, the vintage furniture trade has ended up with a small army of orphaned mirrors. Wander around any antiques fair or flea market and you’ll … Continue reading Why So Many Old Mirrors Look Like They’ve Lost Their Other Half (Because They Have)