Re-Upholstering Antique Furniture

One of the challenges of refurbishing antique furniture is doing a quality job with the upholstery. Often you can do a satisfactory job of refurbishing the wooden portions of your antique furniture, but it doesn’t take much to botch a re-upholstery job.

Re-upholstering antique furniture requires attention to a variety of upholstery issues. Patterns have to line up. This can be especially difficult if the pattern you’ve chosen to reupholster your well used antique has stripes.

Seams must be pulled tight and they must remain hidden if you want to  restore your piece of antique furniture to it’s original beauty. If the seams aren’t pulled tight the upholstery job will have buckles in it. If seems don’t get hidden properly, they’re just plain unsightly.

With smaller items, like chairs, these issues make it difficult to get a good final product. When you’re dealing with larger items like a couch, love seat, or settee, these issues just get magnified.

If you’re thinking about having a piece of antique furniture re-upholstered, you would do well to consider having an expert do the work. In our shop, we have a variety of tools as well as many tricks we’ve learned through hundreds of re-upholstery jobs. It’s this knowledge and skill that might make the difference between you being proud to display your antique furniture and being disgruntled with the results.

Antique Furniture Awakened

If you’re a lover of antique furniture, then you have the wonderful ability to see hidden beauty that’s lost on others.

I’m sure you’ve been in the situation before where you stumble across an amazing piece of furniture in someone’s garage or basement. After you gasp and rave about what a wonderful piece of antique furniture it is, the owner simply says, “What that old chair?”

Believe me, I’ve been there before many times. After almost 40 years of restoring antique furniture, I’ve seen lots and lots of pieces that begin looking like they're ready for the garbage, but end up looking like a piece of fine furniture when we're done restoring it. We’ve restored thousands of pieces of furniture to their original breath-taking beauty, and the astonished look in our customers eyes never seems to get old.

If you have friends who have a wonderful piece of antique furniture hiding in their garage, show them some of our restored antique furniture and let them know they may have a great piece right in front of them. It might just help them catch a glimpse of the hidden beauty they hold right before them.

Come back often as we share more about the rich and fascinating world of antique furniture.