Upholstery, repair and reuse
Keep the frame. Change how the room feels.
Traditional upholstery for chairs and sofas worth keeping: the frame mended, the seat rebuilt and a cloth you chose with us.
Sample studio. Your services, fabrics and prices replace every line.
A chair in section
Six layers, from the frame up.
What we check in each, and whether it stays or is renewed. Most of an old chair is worth keeping.
- Top clothThe fabric you choose, cut and pattern-matchedRenewed
- CalicoA fitted inner cover that holds the shapeRenewed
- StuffingHorsehair kept if it is sound; foam and fibre where it is notKept or renewed
- WebbingJute or elastic webbing under the seatRenewed
- SpringsCoil springs re-tied, or replaced where they have lost their shapeKept or renewed
- FrameJoints, dowels and any woodworm; reglued and repairedKept
Cloth, by the metre
How much fabric your piece takes.
A patterned cloth needs more, so the pattern lines up across the seat and back. Sample figures.
- Dining chair seat0.5 m plain · 0.7 m patterned
- Fireside armchair5 m plain · 6.5 m patterned
- Wing chair7 m plain · 9 m patterned
- Two-seat sofa11 m plain · 14 m patterned
- Footstool1.5 m plain · 2 m patterned
The commission
Four messages from us, and the chair comes home.
Photographs in
You send the whole piece, the underside and any damage; we reply with a likely range
Half-way
The frame mended and the seat rebuilt in calico, photographed before the cloth goes on
Anything found
A cracked rail or tired springs, priced before we carry on
Returned
Brought back within eight miles and set in place