Caroline Simpson from Bristol emailed us after seeing our work on the website. Our antique furniture, upholstered in modern fabrics, had inspired her and she had decided to have a Parker Knoll armchair, which had been passed down to her by her parents, re-upholstered in an on-trend fabric so that the chair would fit nicely into…
Antique Wing Armchair Our re-upholstery and re-covering services can transform an ordinary piece of furniture into something spectacular. A good example of this is when Helen Honisett of Nether Edge, Sheffield approached us for a quote for her beloved antique wing armchair. The chair had been upholstered several times by previous generations of Helen’s family and…
Sally Litchfield from Ashover found our services through our website and came to visit us at our workshop near to Kelham Island in Sheffield to choose a fabric for us to re-upholster her inherited dining chairs. Sally chose a beautiful woollen fabric from Art of the Loom and a matching braid and decorative nails for…
Vicki Towndrow from Ecclesall, Sheffield asked us to traditionally upholster three antique armchairs for her new home. One chair was an Edwardian drop-in seat armchair, the second a Victorian pin-stuffed armchair and the third an antique, can backed nursing chair. Vicki’s nursing chair required re-springing and completely re-upholstering (see photographs below). The frames on the other antique chairs…
Lynn Beckwith from Leeds saw the French bed we had re-covered on our website for Sheffield artist, Trevor Neal and asked if we could re-cover her own recently acquired bed. Lynn chose a beautiful duck egg blue and bronze fabric from Linwood and asked us to individually hand nail the frame with French natural decorative nails….
Rose Drew from Hunter’s Bar in Sheffield asked if we could re-cover her cherished antique French bedroom chair which was old, sagging and tired. Rose picked a luxurious gold, velvet fabric from our Linwood Omega range and a complementary gold braid which suited the chair perfectly. We also replaced the webbing and the hessian which had perished and broken, restoring the chair…
Anne Carrigan from Fulwood, Sheffield asked us to re-upholster an inherited set of beautiful Victorian dining chairs for her in a classic duck egg blue fabric and braid.
