Here is a really lovely antique 1920’s Drop Arm sofa as we restored it.
Antique Restoration and Antique Reupholstery
Category Archives: Antique
Wool Fireside Chair
Although I’d say this is a more winter type chair it will sit cool in your home. Wool is cool in the heat and warm in the winter. Also, isn’t it a good idea to get all your reupholstery done now, in the summer, while we are traditionally quieter, it’s easier to move furniture around too – fewer draughts and muddy feet.
A Stunning Bergère set
Restored and reupholstered in a luscious rich claret velvet. Perfect for a library. Bergère Chairs are very comfortable due to the deep and wide seats, usually feather filled cushions and a slightly lower height.
Above is the Bergere set in the workshop. An older reupholstery had made the cushions a little too narrow and our customer wanted the cushions firmed-up and to be made comfortable. So as you can see on the above photo we made the new red cushion cases a little wider to fit snug with the frame.
Sofa Reupholstered with highlighted piping
Knockout looks!
Chaise Longe
In a Linwood damask weave.
And delivered to the customers home where it looked even better.
Ball and Claw feet, fireside wing chair
Reupholstered in Black Velvet – amazing style.
1930s Chair
The strong shape and sturdy lines of this chair made me fall in love with it. Our customer chose a beautiful Linwood houndstooth fabric with a gentle stone and lichen colourway. The build quality of this era of furniture manufacturer is impeccable – again, sturdy and strong quality. The equivalent, if you could buy one new, would be over £5000. And it’s great to restore rather than make new – a delight. Matching sofa below.
Lovely choice of fabric – goes well with the colour of wood.
Traditional Reupholstery
To keep antique furniture original we follow the old techniques.
Classic Furniture
Classic Furniture – The sofa in these photos has been reupholstered by us twice in the last 20 years – still going strong and is truly a Classic.
Our customer sourced and provided the fabric and designed the arm covers with tassels and detail of the matching rope. A wonderfu selection.
Rich in Red – a Red Chesterfield Sofa
Chesterfield Sofa in deep red velour. They never date and good quality versions are designed so they are extremely robust – look great and last a long time.
Before:
Antique Chaise Restored
Antique – Chaise we restored including the before and after photos – take a look below:
Curved Arm Chesterfield Sofa
This Chesterfield sofa is unique in that the arms curve away, camel-backed and it has an additional detail curved upholstered rail at the front.
An exceptional example of a slightly new take on a classic.
And here is the before
Drop Arm Sofa. 1920’s Antique sofa restored and reupholstered – the story
Our customer in Durham asked us to restore and reupholster this lovely 1920’s sofa
Below is its story as we restore in our workshop with the finished item delivered to our customers home. A pleasure to work with.
Historic Chair
A Historic chair with a story. Originally a retirement gift to an Oxford Professor in 1930s and discovered by our customer in a cottage attic in Leyburn, North Yorkshire.
Our customer provided the in-keeping fabric and it looks rather amazing.
If only it could talk 🙂
Chesterfield Sofa
A forever piece of furniture that was a classic when I was a girl and will be a classic when my grandchildren are grownups.
Restored for our client in the Yorkshire Dales
Victorian nursing chair – pheasant pattern
These occasional antique chairs originally designed as a nursing chair work as a lovely feature and occasional seating.
Our customer chose the distinctive pheasant fabric that I think really changes the look to a modern classic.
A clever combination!
200 year old antique dining chairs
What a pleasure to work with these fine and robust 200-year-old antique dining chairs.
Chaise Long restoration
Chaise Long restored and reupholstered to ‘as-new’.
Ready to serve and look stylish in any home for another 100 years
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!
Parker Knoll Two Seater Sofa
So cute and great for modern homes this fully restored Parker Knoll sofa will look lovely in a bedroom or snug.
