Yearly Archives: 2017

Lift Lid Footstool

Reupholstered ‘Lift-Lid’ Footstool

Upholstered in our customer’s own fabric.

I always have a footstool on my house. They make sitting and chatting with a cuppa really comfortable as you rest your feet and you can place the tea tray there too.

This example has a lift-lid to store games, magazines and any other clutter you may have to quickly clear the room – X-Box controllers mostly in my house:)

lift-lid footstool legs Lift-lid footstool

 

Dining Chair Seat Pads Reupholstered

Dining chairs come in many styles

This one is dark teak framed chair with a heavy rubberised and foam seat pad which is very firm to sit on but extremely comfortable for all sizes and weights – adults and children alike.

A super quality chair that is part of a ten-set we reupholstered in a beige weave durable fabric for a long dinner service!

Teak dining chair

 

Here are two Antique Dining chairs with reupholstered seats and pin edged corners.

Dining chairs with pin edged corners

Lovely!

Loose Covers made for two chairs

Loose covers.

We made two sets of loose covers for this customers bedroom chairs.

Customers own fabric.  Tidies up two kids bedroom chairs – looks cool!

Loos cover bedroom chairs

Interesting this chair as it has a low back rail with a high back foam cushion. The back cushion fits behind the seat foam. Possibly a Ikea designed chair.

Conservatory Furniture

What our customers say | reupholstered Conservatory Furniture

“I am thrilled with the result, they are wonderful. I have ordered new blinds and am looking for “pieces” to finish dressing the room.

I would thank you all for your friendliness and professional attitude.

I would have no problem recommending you to anyone thinking of reupholstering furniture.”

Best wishes,

Customer in Manfield near Darlington.

Conservatory Furniture

 

See photos of the completed conservatory furniture

Ercol Chair

A Fine example of an Ercol Bentwood Chair.

This fine example of an Ercol Chair.

Always a pleasure to work with. Our customer chose a plaid shade to coordinate with the bentwood English elm, a perfect fresh look.

Ercol Chair

A little about Ercol

Since 1944 Ercol has produced chairs with a bentwood frame and an arched back supporting delicate spindles. The wood selected was English elm – a wood previously thought impossible to bend because it distorted.

Ercol Chair

Wood Restoration

We restore Ercol Bentwood Chairs and sofas including restoration of the wood frame. We clean down, check joints and re-wax. This keeps the originality but protects the wood better, brings out the lustre and keeps them solid for daily use.

On the bench this week, Cadillac Car Seats.

Car seats are not something we reupholster too often.

We usually only work on car seat restoration rather that regular repairs etc.

This customer asked us to restore the front and back seats of his ‘desert find’ Cadillac from Arizona where it sat for 30 years.

This is an interesting historic car seat restoration.

Real leather hide was requested to replace the original blue and grey, the cloth now almost turned to dust.

Here are the Cadillac Eldorado seats waiting to be stripped down.

Photos of the completed Cadillac Car Seats are below.

Cadillac Seats

Cadillac Seats

The Leather Hides are ready for the car seat restoration.

Leather Hide for Cadillac Seats

Cadillac seat

Cadillac seat

 Photos from a feature of the car in Classic American Magazine

Retro Furniture Restoration | Retro chair

Really ‘on-trend’ Retro Furniture

Some chairs just have ‘IT’ and this sweet 1960’s easy chair I love.

Really neat so it fits in our modern homes. A delicate colour chosen by our customer in a beautiful to the touch wool mix by Linwood. Very fashionable at the moment, will always be a classic and very comfortable too.

The word retro signifies looking backward. When designers, manufacturers and customers speak about retro furniture, we are referring to a style of furniture that looks back with nostalgia and pays homage to styles that were popular in the past. Currently furniture designers are inspired by 60s and 70s – this one is the genuine item.

Retro Chair

Namely, retro furniture was popular in the decades of 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. Recently, the industry has added the 80s to the list, which personally I am shocked at. I love 1960’s like this chair but the 80s?

On the bench this week; A Modern Knole Sofa

This is a stunning classic style of sofa in a modern style and fabric

About Knole Sofa

A Knole Sofa was made in the 17th century. It is housed at Knole in Kent, a house owned by the Sackville-Wests since 1605 but now in the care of the National Trust. It was originally used not as comfortable sofa but as a formal throne on which the monarch would have sat to receive visitors. It features adjustable side arms and considerable depth of seating, it usually has exposed wooden finials at the rear corner tops, and some exposed wood may be present on the otherwise arms. The arms, more correctly sides, are of the same height. The side arms are tied to the sofa back by means of heavy decorative braid, often with an elaborate tassel.

Georgian Dining Chairs

A delightful pair of Georgian Dining Chairs

Reupholstered in a Ross weave.

A customer chose a really fresh choice of fabric colour-way with a matching braid.  These classics look beautiful in any home setting, modern or traditional.  Not only beautifully made but they are surprisingly heavy.  Try picking one up, you’ll get a bit of a shock! Oh and i love the colours!

Funky footstool

Funky footstool

I really love this now Funky Footstool

Designed by our customer in London this simple footstool has been made into a really interesting and unique footstool which I’m sure will be a great talking point.

Upholstered – in part – with an old potato sack. The sacking was quite stretchy so Barry lined the underside with an upholstery material and aded two panels each side to completely cover the footstool showing the potato sack set in the middle.

Funky footstool

 

Funky footstool

Funky footstool

I thought this piece deserved three photos – we just love its clever idea/design and simplicity.

Conservatory Furniture

Conservatory Furniture

Conservatory Furniture, Orangery or Florida room etc.

If you have good quality solid frame conservatory furniture, its worth reupholstering or in most cases simply recovering the cushions in a modern up to date fabric. We can also replace or re-wrap the fibre back cushions and foam seat cushions.

Fabric used on mass produced conservatory furniture often is cotton based, thin and made to a cost. The sun of course eventually breaks it down and your left with a good frame.

An option is to custom make a bespoke replacement with an upholstery grade quality fabric.

Not only is this a cost effective way to build  a quality bespoke product, it also means you don’t have to shop for (often inferior) replacement  – you keep the furniture that you know and know it fits.

This example was recovered in a stunning Linwood fabric that really suits the style of room.

Beautiful!

When Jo delivered the reupholstered cushions the room was not quite finished but I promised I would send photographs so please find these attached. I am thrilled with the result, they are wonderful. I have ordered new blinds and am looking for “pieces” to finish dressing the room.  I would thank you all for your friendliness and professional attitude.

I would have no problem recommending you to anyone thinking of reupholstering furniture.

Best wishes, Ida.

PS just waiting for warm weather to use the cushion on wrought iron garden seat!