Lovingly Restored
Every drawer runner re-waxed, every rim gently re-silvered. Our makers spend up to twelve hours on a single piece before it earns the Rose stamp.
Dorset est. 1987
Homeware that remembers, restored with love.
Rescued from attics, fairs and country clearances, every piece is mended, waxed and polished by hand in our workshop — then sent to your cottage door, ready for another hundred years of Sunday afternoons.
Hand-finished in Dorset · 4.9/5 from 2,300 cottage keepers
Our gentle promises
Faded, chipped, and thoroughly loved
We only sell what we would happily keep ourselves — here is how every piece earns its place on your shelf.
Kindly Sourced
Rescued from house clearances and closing country fairs — nothing new, nothing rushed, and never, ever a reproduction.
Wrapped Like a Gift
Tissue, twine and a sprig of dried lavender. If it isn't beautiful enough to give your grandmother, we simply won't post it.
From attic to hearth
How a treasure finds you
01
Choose your treasure
Browse the weekly finds — chintz teacups, weathered linen presses, rose-embossed jugs — each photographed exactly as it is.
02
We restore by hand
Our Dorset workshop mends, waxes and polishes your piece, then writes you a little card about its history.
03
It arrives cottage-ready
Delivered in recycled packaging within 3–5 days, smelling faintly of beeswax and lavender.
Letters back
Kind words from cottage keepers
The rose-embossed jug arrived looking better than the photographs, and the little history card made me cry into my tea.
Cirencester
I ordered a linen press in sage and the workshop posted wax samples first. Utterly, comfortingly human.
Whitby
Every parcel from the Rose feels like a letter from an old friend. My kitchen shelf is now a small, well-loved museum.
Rye
The Rose Club
A little parcel of the past, every month
Join the club and let us post you a hand-picked, hand-restored treat — pause, skip or cancel whenever the mood takes you.
The Posy
£9 / month
- One dainty find each month — teacup, thimble or jam spoon
- Hand-written history card & lavender sprig
- Pause or skip whenever you like
- Free UK delivery
The Bouquet
£24 / month
- Curated vintage box each quarter, worth £60+
- £20 restoration credit every quarter
- 10% off every one-off find
- First look at new arrivals
- Free UK delivery
The Garden
£49 / month
- Your own vintage sourcing scout
- Unlimited restoration credit (fair use)
- Home visits across southern England
- First refusal on estate-clearance finds
Curiosities
Questions we're often asked over tea
Everything we sell is genuinely old — most pieces date from 1900 to 1970. We photograph every chip and fading patch honestly, so what you see is precisely what arrives on your doorstep.
One-off finds ship within 3–5 working days. Bespoke commissions — such as re-upholstering a bergère chair — take four to six weeks, and we write to you weekly with progress notes.
Wrap it back in its tissue and tell us within 14 days. We collect, refund or restore it again free of charge, and we cover postage both ways — no quibbles, ever.
Any time, from your account or with a polite email. Skip a month, pause for winter, or cancel with a click — your loyalty lavender sprigs never expire.
We ship across Europe and to Canada, the US and Australia. International parcels travel with extra padding; delivery takes 7–12 days and duties are arranged at checkout.
A little letter from the cottage, every Friday
Join 9,000 gentle souls receiving our new finds, restoration notes and one properly good scone recipe.
One short letter a week. Unsubscribe anytime — we'd never sell your address; we barely sell our furniture.