Old furniture often has solid bones but worn or unattractive upholstery. New furniture often lacks personality and durability ...

Reupholstery can seem very intimidating if you’ve never done it before, but with a good tutorial and some patience, you can ...

Being able to upholster something at home is an incredibly useful skill. Once you learn to reupholster a chair, you can turn all kinds of thrift store throwaways into useful, good-looking furniture. A ...

Reupholstering furniture can be complicated, but painting fabric chairs achieves a similar result; just be sure to ...

Before: This vintage wing back chair was beautifully crafted but had seen better days. After: Updating its original frame and applying leopard cut velvet grospoint fabric, Zimman’s transformed this ...

Craig Goldstein has a passion for using his artistic talents to take something old and make it beautiful again. Goldstein, the owner of Ultimate Reupholstery in Long Grove, learned the upholstery ...

Amanda Brown encourages creative types who are looking to upgrade their furniture to think outside the box — big-box retailers, that is. “I’m not the same person as 1,000 other people with the same ...

From badly faded upholstery to uneven chair legs, sometimes older pieces of furniture require an overhaul in repairs. In cases like these, when a new coat of varnish alone won’t work, don’t just junk ...

If you're eyeing your old couch with disdain or hiding it under an ill-fitting slipcover, a re-upholstery adventure may be in your future. Many customers are looking to update what they have as ...

In the age of mass-produced “fast furniture,” you’re lucky if you can find, say, an armchair that’s well-built and stylish, or stylish and wallet-friendly. Rarely, if ever, said the pros we polled for ...

SHEFFIELD -- Stacks of colorful binders full of fabric and design samples line the walls of M Designs Custom Sewing and Re-upholstery in Sheffield. It’s a kaleidoscopic array of colors all mixed ...

BBB-accredited, Custom Furniture Works has been a family-owned business for more than 30 years. According to the company’s website, re-upholstery generally takes 2 to 4 weeks. Interested customers ...