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Original Features is a retailer of 18th and 19th century restoration and enhancement products for period properties in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1990 by Richard Garland, the current CEO and his partners, the shop was envisaged as “one stop shop” for all customers’ restoration products. In 2009, the business became an e-Commerce retailer, launching a website, as well as having a showroom based in Crouch End, North London.

History
Richard Garland founded the company in London in 1990. Garland came up with the idea of creating the business whilst managing a successful construction company, at the time of converting Victorian and Edwardian houses into flats.

Garland and his partners were very keen to keep the authentic feel of the original house when converted into flats. However, it proved tricky to find the products and services to do so with a lot of traditional skills dying off. Therefore, the idea to serve the private client market came out of this gap.

Products
Original Features sell handmade Victorian Geometric and Encaustic Tiles, Exclusive Period Wallpaper, Ironmongery and Brass furniture, Mirrors, Italian Luxury Handmade Tiles and Recro Encaustic Handmade Cement Tiles. . They also sell fireplaces and clean-burn stoves, fireplace accessories and cleaning products for their tiles and fireplaces.

North London Shop and Showroom
The Original Features showroom and high street shop is located in Crouch End, North London. The shop supplies all of the company’s products and services with a shop manager and assistant to offer expertise and help.