A vintage oversize Chesterfield sofa we restored for Lartington Hall.
Pretty in pink – always.
Pink Chesterfield
Category Archives: Restoration
Updating Leather Chair and Sofa using Linwood Fabric
A clever idea this; our customer has a wonderful set of leather chair and sofa. The seat and back cushions were remade in a beautiful Linwood weave fabric to transform a dated leather set to a modern contemporary and stylish sofa and chair.
Linwood Fabric is a very high-quality fabric at a great cost. All our fabrics are first quality and always upholstery grade. These fabrics are superior to the mass-produced fabric used for retail outlets. Therefore when you upgrade and reupholster you are creating a top line piece of furniture that will last for a long time.
We made the new scatter cushions too – also in Linwood Fabric.
Chair in Italian Velvet
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.
Modern Soft Cushioned Chair
This is a favorite chair of our customer.
Restored to as-new condition with a modern Ross Aquaclean fabric.
1920’s Drop Arm Sofa
These were extremely popular in the early 1900’s, therefore, we see a lot of them. A sofa that can turn into a chaise long and an occasional bed. The arm has a substantial metal mechanism to ‘drop’ the arm.
The quality of build is extremely robust, I know this from experience as I have owned one for over twenty years. Mine has moved house at least three times and has lived in the lounge, hall, bedroom, holiday cottage and now sits in the kitchen. Kids have used it as a climbing frame and I sat on it last night – it’s in perfect condition. A 100-year-old sofa – Truly amazing.
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:
A very delightful small Knole Sofa
A Small Knole Sofa
This is quite a rare Knole Sofa – I’ve never seen one of this size and it is quite unique in that the styling is squared. Possibly a 1930’s bespoke made to order piece. Great to fit our modern homes with timeless elegance.
Reupholster and Restoration – Detail of the quality of work
Here are two occasional chairs we restored and reupholstered.
I’ve added nice close-up photographs to show the detailed quality of our work.
I am often asked ‘what will it look like when it comes back’. Our reupholstery service is not a second option to buying new. When we restore a chair or sofa etc we re-manufacture to the highest standard. In some cases actually better than the original mass produced furniture or as close as we can when restoring ancient and antique furniture. For example, we will use tacks and horse hair to match ancient reupholstery work.
1930’s Fluted Back sofa
We often talk here about the value of buying older quality furniture and restoring it to your style and taste.
This 1930’s Fluted back sofa is a perfect example. With a matching pair of chairs.
Our customer selected the combination of carved and plain high-quality velore to create a stunning one-off showpiece that you can sit on and look at to enjoy. And of course, if you were to order a new version of this quality the total investment will be about double.
Just amazing!
Conservatory Furniture and Outdoor Furniture Reupholstery
A Fine set of outdoor and or Conservatory furniture with newly made cushions.
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 🙂
Bespoke Italian Genre Sofa in Gold
Bespoke upholstery restoration. Our customer saved this amazing 17th-century Italian genre sofa and two chairs. She designed the frame color change to gold and the button back shield panel along with her own fabric. Wonderful!
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
Pub and restaurant seating – this one in a Linwood fabric
Cosy pub that serves bistro food – reupholstered seating area.
Nothing wrong with the ‘old style red vinyl seating’ but this is rather refreshing – our customer had an upmarket vision for her pub and it looks lovely – who’d want to go home!
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!
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!
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.
