Furniture repair Bayside: a set of cognac leather dining chairs around a table

Furniture repair Bayside Bought Together, Aged Apart

A set of dining chairs leaves the store identical. Ten years on, where each one sat decides how it looks.

Sets, not single pieces

What A Set Looks Like

Furniture repair Bayside jobs are often whole sets: six dining chairs, a pair of armchairs, or a sofa and its matching chair.

Six antique leather dining chairs in a row — **Six antiques**Carved frames, leather seats. Care. Antiques.

Row of five upholstered dining chairs — **A row of five**Identical when new, not ten years later.

Cream leather dining chairs at a table — **Pale leather**Shows every difference between chairs. Cleaning.

Brown leather dining chair with upholstered back — **Seat and back**Two panels on every chair to match. Panels.

Position decides wear, not age

Same Set, Four Chairs

Furniture repair Bayside visits find the same pattern every time: the chair that gets used most looks oldest, whatever its age.

Antique leather dining chair at the head of a table — **The head chair**Used every meal, arms and seat worn pale. Color.

Dining chair with a worn dark leather seat — **The kitchen end**Spills, then scrubbing with the wrong cleaner. Stains.

Cracked red leather dining chair seat — **The window seat**Sun-dried until the seat cracked. Cracks.

Button-tufted brown leather dining chair, barely used — **The spare**Barely sat in, so it is now the darkest. Fading.

Color gets mixed once, or twice

One Batch For The Set

Mix for one chair, then again for the next, and you get two colors. We mix once for all of them. Color matching.

01Mix

One batch, mixed to cover every chair in the set.

02Test

Checked against the least worn chair, under your own light.

03Proof

You approve the proof before anything is sprayed.

04Apply

Every chair, the same day, from the same batch.

Before you call

Don't Send Us One Chair

Line them upSide by side, near a window, in daylight.
Photograph the rowSo we can see the spread of wear.
Then the worst oneClose up, seat and back. Send them.

Refinish the set, rebuild only what failed

Color For All, Foam For Some

Brown leather meeting a wooden chair frame

AllRefinished together

One color over every chair, so the set reads as one again.

SomeNew foam where flat

Only in the seats that actually sank. Foam.

Padding fitted to a dining chair seat board

FewRecovered if split

New leather, dyed to the same shade as the set. Seats.

Chairs in, chairs back

Matched To The Neighbor

Carved dining chair recovered in cream leather — **Carved chair**Brown to cream, to match the rest. Recover.

Water-damaged dining chair before and after recoloring — **Water marks**Cleaned and recolored. Water.

Cream leather dining chair after dye removal — **Dye transfer**Lifted from pale leather. Dye.

Cured color swatch held against a leather panel — **Checked**A cured swatch held against the chair.

Two leather panels meeting at a seam, evenly colored — **The seam**No visible line between the panels.

Stitched corner on a leather dining chair back — **Stitching**Original thread kept, resewn if open.

Any matched set

Pairs And Sets

Sofa and chair

Dining chairs

North-east Queens, house by house

Bayside And Nearby

Most work is done at your table. We cover Bayside, Bay Terrace, Oakland Gardens and Douglaston, home of the Bayside Historical Society. Nearby:

Doing a whole set

Common Questions

Do all the chairs have to be done?

For color, yes. Otherwise the fixed chair stands out as the new one. Furniture repair Bayside quotes price the set.

Can the worst chair be rebuilt alone?

Yes. Foam, frames and covers are priced per chair.

Is the work done at home?

Color and small repairs, yes. Recovers go to the bench and come back together.

Is the visit free?

Yes, with a written quote for the whole set.

Fabric seats too?

Yes. See fabric and vinyl.

What about a sofa and its chair?

Same idea: both pieces refinished together. See sofas.

Cognac leather dining chair in a dining room

Bayside, Queens

Stand Them Side By Side

Then photograph the row. We price the set, not the chair. All services.

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