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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.

Ikea Chairs

This pair of curved wood chairs were originally from Ikea. We re-covered in the deep burgundy fabric provided by our customer | Ikea Chairs.

Footstool

Made-to-order footstools: any size, style, height or fabric.

Bird Chair

Bird of paradise cotton print fabric provided by our customer.

Loose Cover Sofa

We made a looses cover for the body and cushions for this beautifully dimensioned large sofa.

The sofa design is a country house oversized sofa with a rolling soft back and arms. Our customer provided the print fabric from Linwood Fabrics. This is a lovely Country House sofa to keep forever.

Loose cover country house oversized sofa

Edwardian

A delightful pair of Edwardian chairs we reupholstered in Scottish Futura leather. See the fabric seat and studs around the arm.

Moroccan-Style Sofa

A nice pair of two-seater sofas we reupholstered. The Linwood Moleskin fabric is quite lovely to look at and touch. The pair of Moroccan-style sofas make a neat social sofa seating area. We are a Linwood Fabric stockist Our Fabrics Page

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Duresta

One of our favourites, Duresta are extremely well made robust and classically stylish soft furnishings. Contemporary in design, they are a modern classic that can be restored and redesigned many times.

We reupholstered this delightful Duresta chair in the customer’s own fabric from a village near Whitby.

Duresta | BJU are Duresta specialists. Repairs, restoration and reupholstery. We even re-sized a three-seater sofa to a two-seater sofa to fit perfectly into a bay window. Here is a recently completed reupholstered Duresta sofa reupholstered in a Ross flat weave fabric.

Specialist in: Sherborne – Duresta – Vale Bridgecraft – Parker knoll – Ercol – Cintique. All top brands are restored, reupholstered, and altered as required.

Nursing Chairs

You can design a super corner filler or occasional chair. You can design the style, fabric, and trim. Add a button back or plain, add a cushion or change the wood colour. Some completed upholstery examples are shown below.

Pink Occasional Chair

Reupholstered for our customer in Darlington, we think the colour selection has really reinvented this chair. See the before photo.

Club Chairs

A pair of rather nice club chairs we reupholstered.

Wood Frame Sofa

Exposed wood frames sofa with Bergere arms reupholstered in a Porter and Stone fabric which has become my favourite. The detailed stitching is a delight.

Occasional Chair

Lovely rustic colours. An occasional chair we reupholstered for a customer in Yorkshire. The customer supplied the fabric, lovely wood and fabric combination.

Button Back Chair

This Button Back Chair was completely transformed. This chair was originally quilted with buttons on the arms, back and wings and is now updated following our customer’s bespoke design and looking very classic.

Ercol

1960’s Ercol sofas and chairs. The fabric selected was a Ross Aqua clean. We replaced the cushion interiors for better comfort too. See more Ercol furniture we have restored or reupholstered.

We love Ercol Furniture

Parker Knoll

A traditional Parker Knoll chair we reupholstered in a Linwood Velvet. I like the button-back detail.

Green Chaise Lounge

I don’t think we need any words to describe this chaise lounge. The colour choice is the key to the look of this piece of furniture. See how the green velvet draws out the light highlights of the wood.

The chaise lounge was reupholstered for our customer in Thirsk, North Yorkshire and fully restored covered in Linwood Omega velvet. The lady is getting married on Saturday and will sit on this for photographs. What a wonderful idea.

Headboard

Here is a custom-made to-order headboard. We followed our customer’s design and example photos to make this bespoke headboard.

A great example of a special order rope braid with Linwoo d velvet fabric headboard. Rather nice.

Manufacture and reupholstery completed – nationwide service – contact us for details. Free Estimates | Reupholstery Experts.

Here is another headboard on the bench.

Historic Leather Chair

Reupholstered in quality Scottish leather.

I adore this very strong-designed chair. Our customer selected genuine leather to replace the original leather and I think it was a good choice. We only use high-quality leather hides and it shows really well on this chair. It will last for another 100 years I am quite certain.

Loose Covers

Let’s talk about loose covers.

Back in the 1980s, loose covers became really popular. The idea was appealing, the sofa body was plainly upholstered in a base cloth, a calico for example and the cover pulled on with fixings at the back by ties or velcro. Some sofas came with two sets of loose covers so you could switch seasonally or fancied a change. You could order new loose covers too and we have made many replacement loose covers over the years. The downsides are that when washed the covers tended to shrink which made re-fitting a bit of a battle, once fitted they tend to lose the tailored look and looked a little miss-shapen and untidy. Avoid washing if you can, if you do, re-fit when damp.

Can we make new loose covers for a sofa?

Yes, we can make loose covers for any sofa or chair. We tailor make the covers to fit the furniture bespoke tested against each panel. We do not replicate using the original covers as a template. We can make loose covers for a sofa or chair that previously did not have loose covers and we can fully upholster a sofa or chair traditionally too rather than staying with loose covers.

Is there another loose cover option?

Yes, fully reupholster the furniture and add full-size arm caps and removable cushion cases. This option allows you to remove and wash the main fabric areas with the benefit of the fitted upholstered look.

Photos of loose covers we have made are shown below.

Chaise Longue

Ten examples of chaise longue we have restored and reupholstered. The modern chaise longue was first popularised during the 16th century in France, hence the rather lovely name ‘Chaise Longue’ – it always congers up a sophisticated romantic feel. Chaise Longue were created by French furniture craftsmen for the rich to rest without the need to retire to the bedroom. I think I need one.