Upholstery services in Kingseat & surrounding areas: Papakura, Pukekohe, Waiuku
020 4181 4313 · Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat by appointment
Upholstery services in Kingseat & surrounding areas: Papakura, Pukekohe, Waiuku
020 4181 4313 · Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm, Sat by appointment
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Good upholstery starts with looking properly at what you’ve got. The frame, the springs, the foam, the way it’s been used – all of it decides what’s worth doing, and what isn’t. Here’s how the work actually goes.
Lilo has been upholstering for 10 years – trained on traditional frames, springs and hand-stitched edges, and working since on everything from a single dining chair to a full boat interior. The person who quotes your job is the person who strips it, rebuilds it and sews the cover.
That’s the practical difference here. Nothing gets handed down a line, nothing gets rushed to keep a bench busy, and if something inside the piece turns out worse than it looked, you hear about it from the person with their hands in it – before the money is spent, not after.
Shape, construction and condition decide which steps are worth doing. Two sofas that look identical from the outside can need completely different work.
We go over the frame, joints, webbing, springs, foam, cover and seams, and find out how the piece is actually used. That’s what tells us whether it needs a repair, a re-cover or a full rebuild.
Materials, colour, firmness and the details get agreed with you before anything is cut. You’ll know what’s being changed, what’s staying, and what it costs.
Old cover and failed padding come off. Loose joints get re-glued, sagging webbing and springs get replaced, and the foam is rebuilt to the firmness you asked for rather than whatever was in there.
The new cover is patterned on the piece itself, cut to follow the shape and the fabric pattern, sewn and fitted tight — then the piping, buttoning or studs go on.
Piping, top-stitching, buttoning and upholstery studs aren’t decoration. They’re what holds the shape, keeps the tension even and stops a cover going baggy in the places that get sat on. On a piece that’s been done properly, they’re the parts you stop noticing.
It’s also where the cost difference sits between a quick re-cover and a proper one. A cover can be thrown over old padding in a fraction of the time – it just comes back looking tired in a year or two, because nothing underneath it changed.
Made-to-measure padded headboards and wall panels, built to the room’s dimensions rather than cut down from a standard size – leather set into fabric, recessed detailing, edges bound to hold the join.
Carved frames, claw feet and shapes nothing standard fits – stripped back, re-sprung where they need it, and covered in something you’d actually choose rather than a period reproduction.
The same bench, the same standards – car and campervan interiors and full boat fit-outs, including canvas.
Send a few photos through, or give us a call and we’ll talk it over.
