Now Get Your French Antique Vintage Furniture Fix On Instagram

We’ve been on the addictive mobile photo site Instagram for a little while now, if you’re new to it or an age old veteran look us up and follow us on our cuddly… Continue reading →

Painted Antique French Furniture – Examples of The Art of Highlighting

    Lots of people love the different colours we use on our French furniture at FrenchFinds and lately we’ve had a lot of requests for highlighting. Over the years we have painted… Continue reading →

Super Shiny Polished Vintage Steel (Furniture)

Frenchfinds has been experimenting with a slightly different distressed furniture look. With a little bit of stripper and a lot of elbow grease shiny metal furniture is now slipping silently into our shop.… Continue reading →

Upholstery ideas and inspiration for French antique and vintage beds

Frenchfinds has a constant stream of creative customers with bucketfuls of interesting ideas on how they want a particular antique or vintage piece of furniture finishing. Upholstery Inspiration Recently, we have had lots… Continue reading →

How distressed do you want it? Examples of distressing antique French furniture

Lots of people love the aged, old, battered, shabby chic look on French furniture, something that gives the piece a used feeling to it. For those antique furniture items that do not already… Continue reading →

Antiques sustainable way to have a low carbon footprint

Antiques are no longer brown, white or any other colour! They’re green! Buying an antique or vintage piece rather than a new reproduction can save as much as 537kg of carbon dioxide emissions… Continue reading →

Need your French furniture wish to come true?

Yes, the French furniture fairies are departing to France next week to make more people’s wishes come true. We have a large number of wishes from people for French furniture that we help… Continue reading →

Sumptuous Upholstery Fabrics for French Furniture Pt 2

Part 2 of frenchfinds.co.uk blog post on sourcing bright and different fabric ideas for upholstering fantastic French furniture pieces like beds, chairs and accessories (you can find part 1 here). Rapture & White – Birds… Continue reading →

Sumptuous and bright fabrics for antique and vintage French furniture upholstery Pt1

At Frenchfinds.co.uk We get asked a lot about reupholstery for our original antique and vintage French furniture especially our French Capitone and Corbeille beds. Having come direct from France, some of these French… Continue reading →