Reupholstery Hoboken One New Cover Ages The Room

In a small apartment everything is seen at once. The day a recovered piece comes back, the rest of the room is judged against it.

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Reupholstery Hoboken: a club chair in new oxblood leather — The new cover

The worn arm of the older leather chair beside it — The chair beside it

Four pieces, one color name

All Four Are Brown Leather

Same hue, different everything else. Add a newly covered fifth piece and it will not read as another brown. It reads as the new one.

Lighter brown leather recliner — The recliner

Tufted brown leather ottoman — The ottoman

How the room got this way

Bought Over Years, Seen At Once

Hoboken is a square mile of small apartments. Furniture outlasts the lease it was bought for, and there is no second room to hide a mismatch in.

Open living room where every piece is seen together — One glance, whole room

White leather ottoman beside a different sofa — Two leathers, neither wrong

What the eye reads first

Sheen Shows Before Color

New leather reflects evenly. Used leather reflects in patches. That difference shows from the doorway, even when the color is right.

Even highlight across a new leather cushion — New: one even highlight

Worn leather edge with a broken highlight — Used: broken highlight

The request we talk people out of

Do Not Match Backwards

Matching a new hide to a worn piece buys a resemblance to something that keeps ageing. Then the gap reopens.

Choose for the roomPick the cover for the space, not for the tired chair.
Let it be newestA newer piece reads as new, not wrong.
The exception: a setTwo chairs bought together should match each other.

How reupholstery Hoboken runs

Cover First, Then The Rest

Club chair stripped to its frame and webbing

01Settle the frame

Joints and springs first. The answer can be no.

New hide held against the chair in its room

02Choose in the room

Hides judged where the piece lives.

03Old cover, new pattern

Each panel labelled and traced.

New leather hide cut from the old pattern

04Cut, cover, return

Then we judge the rest of the room.

Before and after

Recovered, Same Frame

The frame was sound, so the piece was recovered, not replaced.

Leather sofa dry and cracked before reupholstery — Before

The same sofa in a new leather cover — After

Parsons dining chair before and after in navy leather

Parsons chair, navy leather

Midcentury armchair before and after in olive leather

Midcentury chair, olive leather

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What we recover

Pieces Doing Several Jobs

A sofa that is also the guest bed. Dining chairs used at a desk all day.

Camelback sofa reupholstered in taupe leather

Repair or recover

Not Everything Needs Recovering

Color restoration and cushion repair keep the original hide, so the piece stays inside the room's range. For small damage, see leather repair in Hoboken.

Nearby in Hudson County

Hoboken / Jersey City / Weehawken / North Bergen / All of Hudson County

Questions

Asked Before A Piece Leaves

Does the piece have to leave my apartment?

Yes. A full recover is bench work: the old cover comes off, becomes the pattern, and the frame is worked on in the shop.

Should the new cover match my other furniture?

Usually not. The piece you matched keeps ageing. Choose for the room, unless the piece belongs to a set.

Can you make a new cover look less new?

We can take the sheen back. For a set it can be right; for a mixed room it rarely is.

Recover or replace?

It depends on the frame. A sound, well-joined frame is worth reupholstery Hoboken work. A stapled or split one usually is not.

Can you get it down my stairs?

Yes. Many Hoboken buildings are walk-ups. Tell us the floor and stair width in your photos.

What if only the cushions are gone?

That is a smaller job. See custom cushions or panel replacement.

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Send The Piece And The Room

A free quote on reupholstery Hoboken from two photos: the piece, and the room it stands in.

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