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Furniture Reupholstery in New York

Furniture reupholstery starts with taking the old cover off. The frame and the foam under it are put right, and a new cover is cut to the panels that came off — so what you keep is the piece you already sit in.

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Repair, restore or recover

Which service does your furniture need?

Three different jobs. Furniture reupholstery NYC is the largest of them, and often not the one you need — the cheapest job that will hold is the right one.

Repair A clean horizontal cut through brown leather with the edges lifted apart

Best for damage in one spot.

  • Tears
  • Cuts
  • Holes
  • Seams
  • Scratches
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Restoration A tan leather cushion with the colour worn thin and creases running across the surface

Best when the existing cover can stay.

  • Fading
  • Colour loss
  • Scuffs
  • Surface wear
  • General ageing
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Reupholstery A tan leather three-seat sofa in a lamp-lit living room

Best when the cover has to be replaced.

  • Extensive wear
  • Multiple failed panels
  • Material failure
  • Major style or colour change
  • Complete transformation
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When repair runs out

Three things put a piece past repairing

Repair is worth doing while there is sound material to work into. These are the three points where furniture reupholstery NYC becomes the cheaper answer.

Brown leather split open across a seat with the woven backing cloth showing through

The backing is showing

Once you can see cloth there is nothing left to colour. Filler bridges a hole, not a missing panel.

Two adjoining sofa cushions with large flaking patches where the finish has peeled off

It is on every cushion

One failing cushion is a panel job. When every seat, back and arm flakes, the material has ended.

A whole sofa back and seat covered in peeling, delaminating brown surface

It comes off on your hand

Bonded and heavily coated covers shed as the adhesive lets go. Nothing sticks to a lifting surface.

What we recover

Sofas, sectionals, chairs and dining sets

A sectional is several frames that must match at the joins; a dining chair is a set where one odd seat shows.

Furniture reupholstery NYC — a brown leather three-seat sofa with nailhead trim

Sofas

Seats, backs, arms and the deck under the cushions, each cut as its own panel.

Sofa Reupholstery
A large brown leather corner sectional

Sectionals

Cut from one batch so the corner does not read as two pieces of furniture.

Sectional Recovering
A buttoned brown leather club chair with rolled arms

Armchairs & club chairs

Buttoning, piping and rolled arms are re-made, not approximated.

Chair Reupholstery
A dark leather dining chair with brass nailhead trim beside a wooden table

Dining chairs

Done as a set. Drop-in seats come off in minutes.

Dining Chair Reupholstery
A brown leather sofa bed opened out with the mattress extended

Sofa beds & recliners

The cover has to clear a mechanism, so panels are fitted with the action opened and closed.

Sofa Bed Recovering
Under the cover

The part you only see once the cover is off

A new cover over a tired frame reads as new for a season. Furniture reupholstery NYC is the only point at which everything holding the shape is open to inspection.

A cutaway of a sofa seat showing five stacked layers, labelled new upholstery, Dacron batting, foam padding, webbing and springs, and solid frame
A seat, cut through. The cover is only the top layer of five.
A buttoned leather chesterfield chair with the seat stripped back to bare hardwood rails and old jute webbing

Frame, webbing and springs

Loose joints are re-glued and pinned, slack webbing and tired springs replaced.

Upholstery foam blocks on a workbench being cut square to a new pattern with a long blade

Foam and fill

Collapsed foam is cut new to the same profile, specified by grade rather than thickness — density and firmness are measured, not judged by feel. Cushions alone can be refilled or made from scratch.

Choosing the cover

Leather, vinyl or fabric

The frame does not care what goes back on it. Furniture reupholstery NYC is decided by who sits on the piece and how often, not by what was on it before.

Four rolls of upholstery leather laid side by side in tan, cognac, oxblood and mid brown

Leather

Ages rather than wears out, and can be recoloured later instead of recovered again. Pigmented takes daily use; aniline does not.

Four rolls of upholstery vinyl in brown, black, navy and taupe, each with an even printed grain

Vinyl

Wipes clean and takes disinfectant. See commercial vinyl.

Seven rolls of woven upholstery fabric in oatmeal, taupe, grey, slate blue, navy and olive

Fabric

The widest range of colour and texture. Solution-dyed performance fabric holds colour under sun and cleaning.

Every material, side by side, in the materials guide.

Colours and textures

Popular colours and textures

Two separate decisions: the colour, then the surface it sits on.

Neutrals and browns

Ivory upholstery leather swatchIvory
Bone upholstery leather swatchBone
Oatmeal upholstery leather swatchOatmeal
Taupe upholstery leather swatchTaupe
Mushroom upholstery leather swatchMushroom
Clay upholstery leather swatchClay
Fawn upholstery leather swatchFawn
Cognac upholstery leather swatchCognac
Pecan upholstery leather swatchPecan
Saddle brown upholstery leather swatchSaddle
Chestnut upholstery leather swatchChestnut
Walnut upholstery leather swatchWalnut
Espresso upholstery leather swatchEspresso

Greys, greens and deep tones

Dove grey upholstery leather swatchDove
Driftwood upholstery leather swatchDriftwood
Slate grey upholstery leather swatchSlate
Charcoal upholstery leather swatchCharcoal
Olive upholstery leather swatchOlive
Forest green upholstery leather swatchForest
Teal upholstery leather swatchTeal
Indigo upholstery leather swatchIndigo
Navy upholstery leather swatchNavy
Midnight blue upholstery leather swatchMidnight
Plum upholstery leather swatchPlum
Oxblood upholstery leather swatchOxblood
Dark chocolate upholstery leather swatchChocolate
Smooth tan upholstery leather with an even, unbroken face and no printed grain

Smooth

Black upholstery leather with a raised pebble grain that hides scuffs and daily marking

Pebbled

Grey upholstery leather with a fine natural grain running across the hide

Grain

Flat taupe upholstery fabric in a tight linen-style weave

Woven

Dark teal velvet with a short dense pile that shades as it catches the light

Velvet

Cream and brown bouclé with a looped, nubbly yarn and a heavy texture

Bouclé

Indicative tones. The colour itself is picked from the maker's own card.

Craftsmanship details

The edges are where the work shows

A cover is judged along its seams. These get re-made on a piece, not simplified away.

A close view of tan leather where two parallel rows of cream contrast stitching run either side of a welted seam

Double stitching

A close view of a brown leather arm finished with a contrasting tan piped cord that follows the roll of the arm

Piping

A close view of cream leather in a deep-buttoned diamond pattern with covered buttons at each point

Tufting

A close view of a taupe buttoned leather chair with a line of domed brass nailheads set along the arm

Nailhead trim

A close view of dark grey leather finished with two parallel covered cords and cream contrast stitching

Double welt

Pattern and shape

Tufting, channels and plain panels

The pattern is stitched into the new cover, so it does not have to match the old one. Recovering is the cheapest moment to change it — the panels are being cut from scratch either way.

Navy leather in deep diamond tufting with self-covered buttons

Diamond tufting

Buttons pulled deep on a diamond grid. The Chesterfield look.

Cream leather tufted on a diamond grid with faceted crystal buttons

Crystal buttons

The same grid, finished with faceted buttons instead of covered ones.

Aubergine leather formed into wide vertical channels with no buttons

Wide channels

Vertical panels, no buttons. Fewer places for crumbs to sit.

Olive green leather in narrow vertical flutes

Narrow fluting

Tighter vertical lines. Makes a back read taller and more formal.

Grey leather in wide horizontal channels running across the panel

Horizontal channels

The same lines run sideways, so the piece sits lower and wider.

A plain black leather cushion with a piped edge and no tufting

Plain panel

No pattern at all. One smooth face, usually piped at the edge.

Deep buttoning takes more material and more hours than a plain panel, so the pattern moves the price. Say which one you want when you send photos.

A run recovered in place

Fixed seating never leaves the room

Loose furniture goes to the bench. Anything bolted to a wall or floor is recovered where it stands, usually overnight.

An upholsterer kneeling beside a banquette run, marking a paper template against the seat edge

Templated on site

Measured and templated in the room — fixed runs are rarely as square as the drawing.

A gloved hand levering old staples out of a wooden upholstery rail with a staple remover

Stripped to the rail

The panels that come off become the pattern for the ones going on.

An upholsterer pulling a tan leather cover over a banquette back and stapling it to the frame

Pulled and fixed

Worked over the fill and fixed under tension, so it stays flat.

A close view of a finished tan leather banquette back with even vertical fluting

Detail put back

Fluting, buttoning and piping re-formed to the original spacing.

Rooms and runs

Ordering a whole room, not one seat

Furniture reupholstery NYC at volume: booths, banquettes and chair sets are scheduled together so the colour matches and the space closes once.

A scuffed dark banquette run on the left and the same run recovered in tan leather on the right
A curved bar banquette, worn through on the seat, recovered in tan.
A long fluted tan leather banquette run along a window in a brick-walled dining room
A full window run, fluted back and seat, finished in one overnight visit.
Commercial Reupholstery Leather Vinyl Fabric Foam Replacement Seating Replacement Large Volume Booths & Banquettes Bulk Projects
Before and after

The same frame, a new cover

Nineteen furniture reupholstery NYC jobs, grouped by piece. The shape stays; the material is what changes.

A two-seat leather loveseat cracked and flaking across both cushions, and the same loveseat recovered in smooth cognac leather
A cream corner sectional worn thin along the seats and chaise, and the same sectional recovered in charcoal
A pale corner sectional marked and flattened across the seats, and the same sectional recovered in emerald velvet
A three-seat sofa in a dated striped weave, and the same sofa recovered in plain cream fabric
A dark grey leather corner sectional worn through along the seats and arms, and the same sectional recovered in cognac leather
A cream sectional with a chaise, the seats crushed and marked, and the same sectional recovered in fresh cream
A buttoned green leather wing chair worn through on the seat and arm fronts, and the same chair recovered in green leather with the buttoning re-tied
A dark brown leather recliner cracked across the back, seat and arms, and the same recliner recovered in tan leather
A brown leather armchair cracked and flaking over the whole seat and arms, and the same armchair recovered in tan leather
A pair of burgundy leather club chairs cracked across the seats and arms, and the same pair recovered in blue-grey fabric with the nailhead trim replaced
A black leather desk chair with the seat and arm pads split open, and the same chair recovered in ribbed tan leather
A dining chair with the leather back panel split and peeling, and the same chair recovered in dark brown leather
Two dining chairs with stained pale covers, and the same pair recovered in black leather
Three dining chairs with cream covers stained across the seats and backs, and the same three recovered in navy

Ottomans, benches and headboards

A taupe scatter cushion marked across the face, and the same cushion in a new taupe cover
A square ottoman in black leather cracked and flaking across the top, and the same ottoman recovered in tan leather
A small beige ottoman scuffed and split along the top seam, and the same ottoman recovered in near-black leather
A deep-buttoned bench with the cover stained and pulling away, and the same bench recovered in emerald velvet with the buttoning re-tied
A buttoned bed headboard in worn pale velvet, and the same headboard recovered in charcoal velvet with the buttoning re-tied and nailhead trim set along the wing

Before on the left, after on the right.

Before you decide

Questions worth asking first

Is it worth reupholstering a sofa?

Furniture reupholstery NYC follows the frame. Tight joints in hardwood are worth recovering; a stapled softwood frame that flexes when you lift one end is not.

What is the difference between reupholstery and leather repair?

Repair puts one area of the cover you have right; reupholstery fits a new one. Damage in one or two places is a repair job; a finish gone across every panel is a recover.

Can you reupholster a leather sofa in fabric?

Yes. The frame does not care what goes back on it, and the pattern comes from the panels that came off, so the shape survives the change.

Does the furniture have to leave the apartment?

Loose furniture goes to the workshop. Fixed seating bolted to a wall or floor is recovered where it stands, overnight when the room has to open in the morning.

Do you replace the foam as well as the cover?

Where it has collapsed, yes — a new cover over flattened foam takes the same hollow within a week. Programmes like CertiPUR-US cover what goes into the foam itself.

Do you reupholster a single chair, or only whole sets?

Single pieces are fine. Dining chairs are usually ordered as a set, because one recovered chair beside seven original ones reads as the odd one out.

Send it over

Photograph the worst panel, and the whole piece

Two frames tell us whether it is a repair or a furniture reupholstery NYC job, and roughly how much material the piece takes.

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