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About BJ Upholstery

We restore and reupholster quality, important, historic, antique, and retro soft furnishings. Sherborne – Duresta – Vale Bridgecraft – Parker knoll – Ercol – Cintique – George Smith – Wesley-Barrell - Tetrad Furniture - Delcore - Heals designer sofa - Jane Churchill - Multiyork - Howard and Sons Exceptional repair, alteration, restoration, manufacture, and reupholstery services. Our experts are available nationwide to cater to your needs. Whether you require reupholstery, repairs, alterations, or a complete restoration, we have you covered. Our skilled craftsmen pay attention to every detail to ensure that your furniture is impeccably crafted and restored to its former glory - maybe better. - for when it needs to be perfect - We offer expert upholstery services. Let me or my team know any questions - always glad to help. Jo Griffiths.

Boat seat

Boat seating and interior panels reupholstered. Caravan seating.

Yes, we reupholster boats and caravans etc.

Boat seat

Boat seat - bench

Drivers seat at the top – is that the correct expression?? – Captain maybe 🙂 And a bench seat for the passengers.

Caravan Chair
Caravan Sofa

Above is a caravan set. The set was bespoke made to fit the caravan but was free standing (not fixed). Our customer wanted the chair to be boosted with a new medium/firm foam cushion and we heavily wrapped the foam cushion in a fibre Dacron to produce a soft touch but firm comfortable feel.

The whole set was removed and reupholstered in a modern stain resistant high-quality upholstery grade fabric. It looks smart and modern and will withstand the holiday caravan use for many years.

Traditional wingback chair restored and updated with an ‘on-trend’ fabric.

We often talk with customers who want to update or change the fabric on a chair or sofa.

The hurdle often can be the price.  It costs more to reupholster say a Next Interiors or Laura Ashley chair than it does to buy a new one.  The great thing about the likes of Next Interiors or Laura Ashley is that they are ‘on-trend’ and the fabrics used are very lovely to look at.  The negative is that they are made to a price and probably mass produced in China or India – nothing wrong with that as it gives us a great deal – but they are made to a price and engineered to last just a few years with average use.

For value for money and a piece of furniture that will last much longer your better off buying an older quality chair and investing in a restoration of your design.

Here is an example of a fairly standard traditional wingback chair restored and updated with an ‘on-trend’ fabric.  Costs a bit more, take a little more time to instigate but made to your style using British craftsmen and quality fabrics.  There is no other like it!

Wingback chair

Chaise Long restoration

Chaise Long restored and reupholstered to ‘as-new’.

Ready to serve and look stylish in any home for another 100 years

Chaise Long

We restore antique furniture as originally built using tie-in coil springs and modernised wadding with rubberised ‘horse hair’. So the result is a classic handmade piece of historic furniture you can use every day and will last far longer than a modern version.  I’m in love!

New Foam inners - completed

Replacement Seat Foam Cushions

We replace seat foam cushions very often

Upgrading from sagging fibre or feather cushions or just flattened older foam seat cushions.

We use high-grade quality FR foams wrapped in fibre to give a soft touch but with firm support.

Contact us to book a quote.

All replacement foam seat cushions are made to order and fitted correctly to your seat cases.
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New Foam inners - completed

Free collection and delivery and it will take about a week.  We leave the old seat foams with you so you have something to sit on!

About Replacing Foam Cushion Inners | Foam Seat Cushions

Leather chairs - before and after
upholstery foam

Upholstery foam is ordered and cut to fit your seat cushion case. We will wrap the foam and net the upholstery foam to it holds its shape. Once made we fit the foam to the case to ensure it fits perfectly.

Sofa half replaced seat foams

Dining chair denim Aquaclean -close

Aqua Clean is a new fabric that can be cleaned with just water

Fabrics you can clean with water.

AquClean

WHAT IS AQUACLEAN?

Aquaclean technology is a revolutionary fabric treatment that allows you to clean stains using water only. This provides you with simple fabric maintenance in the minimum amount of time.

Aquaclean helps to remove the majority of household stains (wine, ink, sauce, fat, mud, chocolate, cream, etc.) making life easier and giving you more time for the more important things.

HOW DOES AQUACLEAN WORK?

AquacleanTechnology is an advanced fabric protector for upholstery of all kinds. It’s a treatment that covers every fiber with an invisible molecular layer that prevents dirt from penetrating the fabric.

Bench seating close

Pub Work – bar chairs

Commercial work, Pub and Bar work.  Here are a couple of pub chairs we replaced the seat pad, upholstered and finished with a traditional nail stud-strip. And pub bench seating below.

Pub chairs

 

Bench seating in the Darlingtons ‘Bar 22’ on Coniscliffe Road. Traditional and classic style.

And bench seating in Seaham. Deep button backs in a classic green leather look vinyl.

Pub benches

Hand crafted button back Victorian Chair

A beautiful and extremely comfortable Victorian chair.

Fully restored to include all hand-tied base springs and padding with a wad base. Now looking as-new at over 100 years old.  Upholstered in W&B Scottish leather.

For the highest quality craftsmanship in furniture restoration and reupholstery. All our work comes with the ‘Total Satisfaction Guarantee’. A family business established for 30 years.