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Hotel upholstery NYC
The banquette can’t be reordered. It can be recovered.
Built-in seating was made to fit your building. Hotel upholstery NYC work takes the cover back to the frame and rebuilds it where it stands.
Recover or replace
Replacing built-in seating is not an order. It is a rebuild.
Loose furniture can be reordered from a catalog. A banquette run, a headboard wall or a designer-spec’d lobby group cannot, and that is where hotel upholstery NYC work pays for itself.
Replacing it
- Survey and shop drawings, because the piece was built to the bay
- A lead time you do not control, then freight
- A dock window and a service elevator booked around guests
- Somewhere to store the old run until it is hauled away
- Disposal, and a section closed while the new seating lands
Recovering it
- The frame never leaves the room it was built into
- Material is ordered to your standard, one dye lot for the run
- Cover comes off, deck is rebuilt, new cover goes on in place
- Old material leaves with us the same night
- The section is handed back before the morning rush
The pieces that are hardest to replace are the easiest to recover.
Under the cover
What a guest feels is three layers below the fabric
A seat that has gone soft is rarely a fabric problem. Every hotel upholstery NYC job starts by finding the layer that actually failed, because a new cover over an old fault fails again.
A chair taken back to the carcass. Webbing, springs and frame joints are assessed before anything new goes on.
01
Cover
The only layer a guest sees and a housekeeper cleans. Fails at the front edge and the arm seam, where people push up to stand.
02
Wadding and foam
Carries the shape. When it loses loft the cover goes slack and reads as tired even where the fabric is sound. Foam replacement.
03
Suspension
Webbing, springs and the deck they sit in. Once these give the seat dips, and no new cover hides a seat that drops.
04
Frame
Rails, joints and dowels. A sound hardwood frame outlives several covers, which is the whole reason recovering is worth doing.
Fixed or loose
How a piece is attached decides where the work happens
This is the first thing we establish on a hotel upholstery NYC walkthrough, because it changes the schedule far more than the material does.
Fixed to the building
Recovered in place, overnight
- Banquette runs and booth backs
- Built-in window seats and sill benches
- Guest room headboards on a cleat
- Wall-hung upholstered panels
- Fixed lobby and corridor bench seating
Loose furniture
Collected and returned in batches
Fixed seating is why overnight work exists. Loose pieces move through bulk projects in batches, so a room is never stripped all at once.
Where it wears
Six places hotel upholstery NYC work usually starts
From the workshop
Covers taken back to the frame and rebuilt
Private commissions and workshop pieces, shown for technique rather than for the room. Antique frames are the hardest reupholstery there is; a hotel upholstery NYC lobby chair is a simpler version.
Seat gone to bare webbing, arm pads missing. Rebuilt deck, new leather seat and arm pads, back re-buttoned by hand.
A fabric-to-leather change on the same frame. Cut-velvet off, seat refilled, recovered in antiqued leather with a deep-buttoned back.
Worn through to the hessian on a curved barrel back, the shape that takes most skill to cover. Recovered in damask, gilt mounts retained.
The closest workshop analogue to a guest room job: deep buttoning re-set into a carved surround, color changed without touching the frame.
An open-arm side chair of the kind that fills hotel lounges: seat and back rebuilt, recovered in a patterned fabric, close-nailed, frame repolished.
A full strip: cover off, hessian exposed, then rebuilt and recovered end to end — the sequence a banquette run goes through, one bay at a time.
Not every lobby sofa needs a new cover. Here the finish was rebuilt and the cushions refilled, with no reupholstery at all. We tell you when that is the cheaper answer.
The material
Your designer’s fabric, or ours specified to your standard
Two routes into a hotel upholstery NYC job, and the choice is usually made for you by whether the refresh already has a spec attached to it.
You supply the material
The fabric or hide your designer specified comes to us and we cover to it. Yardage, dye lot and flame rating stay with the mill that supplied it.
We specify it
No spec yet, and we put contract-weight options in front of you with the mill’s ratings and test data, so what you approve goes into the submittal.
Upholstery fabric
Widest range of color and pattern. Where a designer usually starts on lounge and guest room pieces.
Performance fabric
Built for cleaning and daylight. The usual answer for restaurant seating and pool-adjacent lounges, from mills like Outdura.
Occupied buildings
The floor stays open while the work happens
Hotel upholstery NYC jobs are scheduled around occupancy, not around us. Fixed seating is stripped, rebuilt and recovered after service and handed back before the room is needed.
Insurance on file
A certificate of insurance with your entity named as additional insured, issued before the first night.
Vendor onboarding
W-9, supplier forms, banking and portal setup handled through vendor services.
Access and egress
Dock window, freight elevator and a protected route agreed on the walkthrough, not on the night.
Questions
Hotel upholstery NYC:
what operators ask first
Our banquettes are fixed to the wall. Do they have to come out?
No. Fixed banquettes, booth backs and built-in benches are reupholstered in place — cover off, deck and foam rebuilt where needed, new cover fitted on the frame as it stands. On a hotel upholstery NYC job, loose furniture is the part that leaves the building.
Our designer has already specified a fabric. Will you work with it?
Yes. Material you supply, or that ships direct from the mill, is covered to as specified. We confirm the yardage against the run before anything is cut, because a shortfall found mid-run is what splits a job across dye lots.
Does the material meet flame code for a public space?
The rating belongs to the material, not to the upholsterer. Contract-grade fabrics, vinyls and hides come with the mill’s test documentation, and that is what your code consultant will want to see. We specify from lines that carry it and pass the paperwork to you.
How do you keep a phased job matching from the first run to the last?
Material for the whole hotel upholstery NYC scope is ordered as one dye lot at the start, then drawn down as the phases run. Two orders of the same reference months apart will not necessarily match, and across a long lobby that difference is visible.
What do you need from us to work overnight?
A dock window, freight elevator access, a route we can protect, and somewhere to stage material and stripped covers. Overnight hotel upholstery NYC crews need all four agreed at the walkthrough, not on the night. Old covers leave with the crew the same visit.
Is reupholstery always the right call, or is repair enough?
If the cover is sound and the damage is local — a tear, a burn, color worn off an arm — furniture repair is cheaper and faster. Reupholstery is for covers finished across the whole piece, or when the design is changing. Most hotel upholstery NYC runs are a mix.
Start here
Walk the floor with us and we will mark what needs recovering
Bring the rooms you are worried about. We mark what is fixed, what is loose and what needs rebuilding under the cover, then hand you a hotel upholstery NYC scope you can budget against. Guest rooms follow the room-by-room route; colors are matched to the run.
