The member who complains about the chair also owns it.
That is what makes a club different from every other venue. Repairs are judged by the people paying for them, in rooms they have sat in for years.
Every room in a clubhouse fails in its own way.
Private club furniture services are planned by room, because the wear, the schedule and the audience change at every door.
The lounge
Deep club chairs that members claim as their own. Arms and front edges go first, decades before the frames do.
- Worked
- In place, overnight
The grill room
Two services a day, spills included. Seats and backs wear evenly, so a room can be done as one batch.
- Worked
- Between service and breakfast
The card room
Hours in the same seat, elbows on the same arm. Arm tops and seat fronts, rarely anything else.
- Worked
- In place, by the table
The locker room
Spikes, damp towels and bag straps. Bench tops take abrasion no lounge chair ever sees.
- Worked
- Off-season or early morning
The bar
Stool seats and footrail scuffing, plus the one stool everyone takes. See bar stools.
- Worked
- After last call
The ballroom
Idle for weeks, then a wedding. Damage arrives in bursts and has to be gone before the next date.
- Worked
- Between bookings, in volume
How much of the original survives decides what you buy.
A club chair that has been in the room since the last renovation is worth keeping if the hide is still alive. We say which of these it is on the walkthrough.
Repair
One arm, one seat, one seam. The rest of the chair is untouched and the patina stays.
When damage is local
Restoration
Color and finish brought back across the whole piece. The hide is the original; it just stops looking tired.
When the leather is still supple
Reupholstery
New leather over the original frame, with the springs and webbing put right underneath.
When the hide has goneBetween the last table and the first tee time.
A grill room of dining chairs with worn seat fronts, handled on the club's dark day.
- 01
Walk it with the manager
Every chair counted and photographed by room, so the committee sees what it is approving.
- 02
Room cleared, floor covered
Tables moved aside, rugs and floors protected before anything opens.
- 03
Seats off, worked in the room
Seat pads unscrew; frames stay put. Damage is filled, grained and left to cure.
- 04
Color matched to the room
Matched to the chairs that are staying, not to a swatch, so the room reads as one set.
- 05
Reset before breakfast
Chairs back at their tables, room set, nothing left behind.
Work runs through off-hours service and on-site repairs, with a certificate of insurance to the club before the visit.
Written for a house committee, not a purchase order.
Clubs approve in seasons and fiscal years, and the people voting are the people sitting in the chairs, the way club managers in the Club Management Association of America plan any capital item. Private club furniture services are quoted to suit that.
- Quoted by room, so phases can be approved separately
- Every piece counted and photographed before the meeting
- The material and color kept on file, so later phases still match
- Work scheduled around the calendar: dark days, off-season, between events
- Larger programs run through bulk projects or a service contract
Same chair, same room.
More in the before and after gallery.
Lounge club chair. Finish restored on the original hide, so it still looks like the chair members remember.
Grill room dining chair. One seat brought back to the rest of the set overnight.
More for clubhouses.
Private club furniture services draw on the same crews that work hotels, restaurants and event venues.
Similar venues
Pieces and materials
Where we work
What house committees ask first.
What do private club furniture services cover?
Club chairs, lounge seating, dining and card chairs, bar stools, locker room benches and banquettes, repaired, refinished or reupholstered room by room.
Can the work happen without closing a room?
Yes. Rooms are worked one at a time, usually overnight or on the club's dark day, and pieces that need the shop leave in batches.
Our club chairs are decades old. Restore or reupholster?
If the hide is still supple, the finish can be brought back and the chair keeps its patina. Once the leather is cracked through or the frame is loose, it is a reupholstery job.
Will chairs done this year match the ones done later?
The color and material are specified once and kept on file, so a phase approved next fiscal year still matches the room.
How do you price work for a house committee?
We walk the clubhouse, count and photograph every piece by room, and quote by room so a committee can approve phases separately.
Start with one room.
We walk the clubhouse, count every piece and quote private club furniture services room by room, so the committee can take it a phase at a time. Or ask for a free estimate on a single chair first.
