Dovetail Restorations Ltd

Adam and his team reupholstered two of our occasional chairs. This is the second time that Dovetail has completed work for our family. They do an amazing job - great communication, excellent work, and speedy delivery time. I highly recommend 5+++++

The Dovetail team transformed worn-out family heirlooms into pieces that can be treasured for many years to come. So impressed with their care and quality work!

We recently had a mid century dining table and chairs restored by Adam and the team. Booking was easy, the quote reflected what we were charged and we are delighted with the results. Will use again and highly recommend.

Dovetail Restorations have restored a number of items for us and have done a terrific job on all of them. I've been amazed and impressed by the quality of every piece and I can recommend them wholeheartedly. It has been a pleasure to deal with them, they got things done in good time, and nothing was ever too much trouble for them. Their prices were reasonable considering the amount of work that was needed and the quality of the end result.They restored our rimu dining table which was in very poor condition. It was about 40 years old and had sun damage, discolouration, the old varnish was starting to break down, and there were a lot of scratches, dents and water damage. It now looks perfect. It would have taken a lot of painstaking and skilled work to restore and resurface it. This enabled me to restore it, which I preferred to selling it and buying a new one. Dovetail gave us advice about looking after it too.They did a lovely job on our rimu dining chairs, re-gluing those that needed it, dealing with al the scratches and dings, and then resurfacing them. All the chairs now look as if they'd just come off the showroom floor.Dovetail also restored a mahogany coffee table which I first saw in the early 70’s and inherited nearly 20 years ago. With the years and family visits including grandchildren the colour had faded on top a lot and it had acquired milky patches from heat / liquid damage. After restoration the table looks astonishingly good.They did an amazing job too on my 100 year old Art Nouveau vase painted by my great-aunt. It had been broken and poorly mended earlier, but now looks really beautiful, looks great on display, and looks like it was never broken. I feel now when the time comes I'll be able to hand it on to the next generation.Thanks for everything Dovetail!

Adam and the Dovetail team were fantastic to deal with and did a great job with my vintage eames chair. Highly recommended!

Dovetail refurbished and restore my great-grandfather's office" desk - he was a manager of an estate in the North of Scotland and I was told this was his working desk. It was built in the 1860s/70s and by the time I took it into Dovetail was very much showing its age - my father had used it as his home desk for 20 or 30 years as well! When I called in to see them with some photos Adam gave me a provisional estimate and then followed this up by email. Despite a few things emerging along the way they held to their estimate and produced an excellent result. We opted for a "sympathetic" restoration - fix the broken or missing bits

Absolutely stoked with the restoration of our large dining table which Dovetail resized. Got it delivered back to us in immaculate condition with its Africaness' still in tact. Many thanks."

Thank you so much for the beautiful finish that was achieved on our dining room table and chairs. We are thrilled with the result, and it looks better than when we first purchased it. Your team have done an amazing job, and the delivery people were lovely also. We would not hesitate to recommend you to others.

I recently had my mother in laws fathers rocking chair restored and a new cushion made. Both the chair and cushion came out absolutely gorgeous!! I could not have been happier. All the people at Dovetail Restorations were great people to communicate with during the whole process and nothing was too much to ask.Will definitely be using them again in future and reccomending to all family and friends.Thanks again!

Stay away from this place . They way overcharge you for a simple carpentry job . I wanted a quick simple fix job on my broken headboard leg not a restoration. They made up the prices on the spot with non realistic reasons for the outrageous price .They say that they are experienced and that’s why their prices are high? If they are experienced then their quotes would be reasonable to the job needed and not adding on things that are not asked for. Got quotes from other places that were much cheaper.Disappointed .