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Armchairs, club chairs, wingbacks, office chairs

The frame is the part worth keeping.

A chair that sags, splits or has gone hard is rarely a chair that is finished. The chair reupholstery NYC clients book usually keeps the original frame and replaces everything stretched over it. We work across New York City, Long Island and New Jersey.

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What would you like to change?

Chair reupholstery NYC: a dark brown rolled leather chair arm scuffed and cracked pale along the top — Worn leather Scuffs, cracking and surface wear.

A tan leather chair seat cushion broken into a wide network of open cracks — Damaged covers Tears, cracks or stains.

A pale beige leather seat cushion gone flat and wrinkled across the whole top — Tired cushioning Loss of support and shape.

A caramel leather chair arm with brass nailhead trim, the grain even and unbroken — A new look A fresh colour or updated style.

What we recover

A fit for many chair styles

Office and executive chairs, chaises and carved antique frames as well. If it has a frame and a cover, the cover can be replaced.

Chair reupholstery NYC: a brown leather club chair with rolled arms and a loose seat cushion — Club chairs

A green leather wingback chair with scrolled arms and tapered wooden legs — Wingbacks

A dark brown leather recliner with padded arms and a side release handle — Recliners

A tan buttoned leather lounge chair set into an exposed walnut frame — Lounge chairs

A cream leather barrel chair with a curved back and dark tapered legs — Barrel chairs

A burgundy tufted leather wing chair with nailhead trim along the arms — Tufted chairs

The first question

Recolour it, or recover it?

Colour costs a fraction of a new cover, and it only works while the hide underneath still flexes.

A broad caramel leather chair seat, the colour even and the grain unbroken across the whole panel — Still sound Faded and tired, but the hide bends without cracking. That is colour restoration, and it costs far less.

A close view of dark brown leather where the finish has crazed into a fine network of cracks — Past it The finish has crazed and the grain is breaking up. New colour would sit on a surface already coming apart.

Folded brown and black upholstery hides laid out on a walnut table beside a tray of smaller samples

Choose the leather. Keep the character.

Compare colour, texture, feel and care needs before settling on your hide.

A close view of smooth brown upholstery leather folded into a soft diagonal roll — Smooth leather

A close view of black pebbled upholstery leather with a raised, rounded grain — Pebbled leather

A close view of tan natural grain leather showing its open, uneven texture — Natural grain

Cognac
Chocolate
Black
Ivory
Taupe
Navy
Olive
Burgundy

Under the cover

Chair reupholstery NYC: what you pay for is under the leather

Chair reupholstery NYC quotes follow the frame, not the hide. This is the part nobody photographs.

A chair seat frame seen from above with black webbing straps interlaced across the opening — Webbing Stretched webbing is why the seat has dropped.

A chair stripped back to bare wood with its coil springs exposed and tied in rows — Springs Tied springs work loose and start to knock. Sagging seat wire is replaced with new, in the gauge makers like Leggett & Platt supply.

A bare wooden chair frame with a split rail joint clamped while the glue sets — Joints A racked frame is re-glued before a cover goes near it.

One job

One club chair, cover to cover

A club chair stripped to its wooden frame with jute webbing stretched across the seat — 01 — Strip it Cover off, tacks out Down to bare webbing, keeping every panel as a pattern.

A close view of a wooden chair frame joint, the rail and leg meeting in a clean mortise — 02 — Frame first Loose joints re-glued Clamped overnight, because a moving frame kills a new cover.

A block of pale foam cut square, standing beside a stripped chair in a workshop — 03 — New fill Foam cut to the pan Edges rolled so the seat holds its shape at the front.

The outside back of a chair freshly recovered in cream leather, the panel smooth and taut — 04 — New hide Panels cut and pulled Sewn, then worked tight over the frame corner by corner.

Where the hours go

The frame sets the quote, the cover sets the hours

Four details decide how long a chair reupholstery NYC job sits on the bench.

A buttoned leather chair seat, each button pulled down into a shallow dimple — Buttoning and tufting Every button is pulled and tied off separately through the seat.

An open seam on a leather chair arm with the stitch line pulled apart — Piping and seams Welt is cut, filled and sewn before a single panel goes on.

The rolled arm of a leather club chair, the crown rubbed pale along the top — Arm shape A rolled arm is pattern work. A square arm is not.

A finished tan leather armchair standing square in a bright workshop — One chair or a pair A pair cut from one hide matches. Cut months apart, it may not.

Finish details

The details belong to your chair

A close view of a brown leather chair arm where the piped seam runs beside a line of antique brass nailheads — Matching piping

A close view of deep buttoned tufting in warm brown leather, each button drawn into the hide by hand — Hand-finished tufting

Black tufted leather meeting a polished walnut chair frame along a curved line of brass nailheads — Careful fit around wood frame

A single straight stitched seam running down the tan leather back panel of a chair — Tidy stitched back panel

Chair reupholstery NYC before and after

Same chair. New possibilities.

Every chair reupholstery NYC job below kept the frame it arrived on.

Chair reupholstery NYC before and after: a club chair in cracked dark brown leather on the left and recovered in tan on the right — Classic club chair

Chair reupholstery NYC before and after: a wingback chair in worn cream leather on the left and recovered in navy on the right — Wingback chair

Chair reupholstery NYC before and after: a recliner in rubbed burgundy leather on the left and recovered in dark brown on the right — Recliner

Chair reupholstery NYC before and after: a barrel chair in creased grey leather on the left and recovered in cream on the right — Barrel chair

Chair reupholstery NYC before and after: a buttoned accent chair in cracked brown leather on the left and recovered in burgundy on the right — Tufted accent chair

Chair reupholstery NYC questions

Asked and answered

Is it worth reupholstering a chair?

If the frame is hardwood and properly jointed, almost always. A chair reupholstery NYC quote buys a frame that has already proved it holds, in a hide you chose, instead of a new chair built to a price.

Does the chair have to leave my apartment?

For a full recover, yes. Chair reupholstery NYC work is done at our workshop, because cutting and sewing panels needs a table and a machine. We collect the chair, and give you the return date once the frame has been opened up and assessed.

Can you match the leather on my other chairs?

We match to a sample rather than to a memory. Bring us one chair and we cut swatches against it, so a recovered pair reads as one set rather than two.

Do you reupholster antique and carved frames?

Yes, and those are the ones most worth doing. A carved show-wood frame is stripped by hand so the timber is not bruised, then recovered with nothing showing on the outside face.

Can I supply my own leather?

You can. We will tell you first whether the hide is heavy enough to sit on, because a garment-weight skin stretches at the front edge however well it is fitted.

Not quite a chair job

Three that arrive booked as chair work

A set of dining chairs

Seat pads and drop-in frames are quoted per set, not per chair. Dining chair reupholstery.

It is really a sofa

A two-seater or a loveseat is priced by the yard, not by the seat. Sofa reupholstery.

Only the cushion has gone

If the frame and back are fine, recover the seat alone. Cushion repair, or a new cushion.

A brown leather recliner and its matching ottoman in a sunlit living room

Moving parts and companion pieces

Recliners and matching ottomans

A recliner has a mechanism under the cover, and an ottoman is a second piece to skin. Photograph both, opened and closed, so the quote covers the whole set rather than one seat.

Send two photographs

Shoot the whole chair, then the worst panel

One frame from a few steps back for the shape, one close enough to read the grain. That pair is usually enough to price chair reupholstery NYC without anyone coming out to look at it.

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