About Us

Yesterdays once more seeks out and rescues discarded items from yesteryear. Using original materials, expert craftsmen restore their original form, function and finish to deliver purpose and pleasure once again.

Design is the magic which conjures style from substance. Anything that was not born or grown was designed. It creates beauty from base materials; wood, metal, stone, china and more. Whilst material and finishes may fade or decay, design remains to inspire, delight and satisfy. Restoring these to discarded and decaying items matters, and matters for the future.

My earliest recollection was the surreptitious removal of a discarded cutlery box from a roadside skip filled with the debris of the refurbishment of a beautiful Victorian villa.

I  cleaned it, stripped it, stained it, lined it and polished it. I so enjoyed the whole exercise that the cost and time to restore it were incidental. I still have the box and looking at it still prompts the pleasure of  its initial restoration.

It resurfaced during lockdown: Two old, rusty, rotten garden chairs were exhumed during a long overdue clearance of the garden shed. They had not seen the light of day for years and undoubtedly though once beautiful, looked very sorry for themselves.