  The `restoration method' is a novel method we recently introduced for
systematically deriving discrete Painlev\'e equations. In this method we start
from a given Painlev\'e equation, typically with E$_8^{(1)}$ symmetry, obtain
its autonomous limit and construct all possible QRT-canonical forms of mappings
that are equivalent to it by homographic transformations. Discrete Painlev\'e
equations are then obtained by deautonomising the various mappings thus
obtained. We apply the restoration method to two challenging examples, one of
which does not lead to a QRT mapping at the autonomous limit but we verify that
even in that case our method is indeed still applicable. For one of the
equations we derive we also show how, starting from a form where the
independent variable advances one step at a time, we can obtain versions that
correspond to multiple-step evolutions.
