Restoration Case Study
Shutters, Sap and Sixty Years of Paint: A Joiner's Diary from a Georgian Townhouse
Original box shutters in a Georgian townhouse are rarely beyond saving, but they are frequently beyond the point where a coat of paint will do. This is a workshop diary of one such restoration — the survey, the timber matching, the mortise-and-tenon repairs, and the moment when replacement genuinely became the honest answer.