The London Upholstery House

14/02/2024

Today I delivered the 2nd larger sofa back to my client after a revamp and update with new seat cushions and new velvet cover.

The sofa has had new fibre wrapped foam seat cushions and is now covered in the beautiful Omega Prints Loseley velvet in Lagoon from Linwood Fabrics

And best of all, I have one very happy client, who has her 2 sofas back covered in a lovely fabric.

13/02/2024

Last week I finished the upholstery for this lovely France and Son armchair and sofa, both designed by Peter Hvidt and Orla Molgaard-Nielsen. This chair and sofa both had the original sprung seat and back cushions, but were in need of restoration. They all had new hessian, fibre and felt and once restored are as good as new. The new covers are made from Abraham Moons Melton Wool in Lemon. Thanks to Arc Furniture for giving me the opportunity to restore the upholstery on these beautiful mid century pieces.

29/01/2024

Today I delivered the first of 2 sofas back to my client after a revamp and modification to the original frame.

This smaller sofa sits in my clients living room, but it also sits across then entrance to the conservatory in this lovely New Forest cottage.

When I visited this client to look at the sofas to discuss what they wanted done with them, my client asked for a very unusual modification. The gap past the sofa into the conservatory was originally very narrow, and so my client asked me if I was able to cut some of the scroll arm away to give slightly more room into the conservatory.

So after stripping off the fabric from the whole sofa, and the stuffing from the arms, I was able to cut 5cm off the scrolls on each arm, and with the help of Ana from The Goodlife Centre who kindly cut the piece of wood at the top of the arm, I was able to give my clients an additional 4” of room to get past their sofa.

The sofa has had new fibre wrapped foam seat cushions and is now covered in the beautiful Omega Prints Loseley velvet in Lagoon from Linwood Fabrics

And best of all, I have one very happy client. Now onto the second, larger sofa for the same client.

26/01/2024

A small job completed before Christmas. 6 dining chairs with drop in seats with new padding and finished with the lovely Warner House Downham velvet in Blue Grotto. This velvet is woven in the UK and really helps to bring these dining chairs up to date after the original stripe fabric.

26/01/2024

This Victorian Chaise Longue has had full reupholstery, stripped down to the frame. My client did not want the chaise to be traditionally upholstered, they asked me to use the Ultraflex sustainable foam replacement. The chaise is now covered in the elegant Ralph Lauren fabric - Campbell Floral.

11/01/2024

27/11/2023

These chairs came into my workshop after the wood had been restored beautifully by Deborah Hurst Restoration.

These Cintique chairs used to belong to my clients father, and are of great sentimental value to my client.

She asked that we could ensure the chairs were restored and reupholstered so she could have them back before a family gathering at Christmas, and they are ready to head back to her now.

They have been covered in a lovely wool fabric from Tori Murphy called Pippy Scallop Stripe in black. This versatile fabric is fully reversible and my client chose the white stripe with the black dots.

23/10/2023

So after a quick trip up to London today to deliver cushions for 2 sofas, they are in place in their respective frames. These 2 mid century sofas were made by my clients father, and they had last been covered in a red chenille fabric and some William Morris fabric more than 50 years ago. My client chose the chunky Cornwall fabric from Fibre Naturelle in 2 shades - Peacock and Spruce. The fabrics reflect the colours of the many watercolours painted by my clients’ father, that line the wall in the room where these sofas sit. The wood has been beautifully restored by Deborah Hurst Restoration and with new 5” foam for the seats and new wedge shaped foam for the backs, they’re good for another 50 years.

12/09/2023

A year ago I was contacted by a client about reupholstering a chair with sentimental value. After doing the work on this chair my client has been on the lookout for another tub chair to go with it, and this week I finished his second tub chair in the same fabric. The fabric is from the Fibre Naturelle Gatsby range in Plaza. The last 2 photos show the before and after of the original chair.

03/08/2023

In my workshop today are these 5 handsome dining chairs.

These chairs are a real family heirloom, they have been passed down from my clients’ great grandfather, to his grandfather, to his father, and now my client has inherited them.

He has had them a few years in this state whilst trying to decide what to do with them.

When I went to visit him to discuss the restoration of these chairs there was talk of making them look more contemporary by upholstering them with foam, using a bright fabric and doing away the the decorative nails, but I’m pleased to say he has decided to replace everything like for like.

So it’s new traditional upholstery, new leather from Wildman & Bugby and new decorative nails.

I’m looking forward to making them look fabulous again.

02/08/2023

It been very cramped in my little workshop for the past couple of weeks! I’ve had 2 Natuzzi sofas in my workshop - a 3 seater and a 2 seater, both being reupholstered. My client had some work done on his house and the builder left his Natuzzi sofas outside in the rain, so the leather was badly stained and damaged, see the last photo.

He asked me to reupholster both of the sofas, but he wanted them done in a good quality faux leather. So after many samples were sent to him, he chose the Camira Fabrics Vita Faux Leather in Swan. The sofas are ready to be collected and sent back home - unfortunately another rainy day so they’ll be wrapped before they get picked up to avoid further rain damage!

The photos are not very good unfortunately, it’s very difficult to take a good picture in such a small space!

21/07/2023

About a month ago I finished a giant curved, deep buttoned sofa in the striking House of Hackney Hollyhocks velvet. The intention was that the legs would be covered in a bullion fringe, but fringe supplier couldn’t get it to me by the time I had finished the upholstery. My client asked me to make a temporary skirt for the sofa, which I attached with Velcro so that it could be easily removed once the bullion fringe was available. So today I travelled to my clients’ house, removed the skirt and attached the bullion fringe - what a difference it has made. Swipe through the photos to see how the sofa came to me, how it looked with the temporary skirt, and how much better it looks with the bullion fringe, in situ in my clients house.