One of the great things about being an upholsterer is being able to “road test” fabrics. Our homes are filled with items we have completed ourselves and add the heavy use that the families throw at it, we can make a pretty good judgement on how a fabric will withstand a clients requirements. As part [More…]
Welcome 2016! It’s a new year and as we are faced with a very cold workshop with nothing but chia seeds inside us to keep us warm, we’ve been thinking retrospectively. During 2015 we fell in love with everything mid century modern; the prints, the fabrics, the styles and the colours. We particularly took a [More…]
We love this time of year; leaves on the ground, clocks going back, heating switched on. No wait…in reality this means a muddy track up to the workshop, A workshop that gets so dark by 4pm, we need to fire up lights that would not be out of place on a premiership football pitch and zero [More…]
We’ve all heard the stories…Howard sofas appearing in auctions and selling for less than £100, Howard armchairs discovered in a barn – like an old classic car. Now usually we would laugh at these tales and put them down to just another upholsterers urban myth but even we have our own tales to tell. We do [More…]
What a joke! …. We wish we had the summer off but it’s been hectic in the workshop, so much so that we feel we haven’t had a holiday at all this year. (Although let us not forget, Canada, France, Majorca….) We haven’t had time to post our “For Sale” items on the upholstery website as [More…]
Welcome to the new website. We hope you like our new logo and if you’ve visited our space at Toads Hall in Wimborne you may have seen the logo adorning the tags on the chairs. We’re also linked into our twitter feed, facebook and pinterest – I think that’s what is known as a social media [More…]
We had a very enjoyable day near the Jurassic Coast at Corfe Village Hall on Sunday May 10th. Dave had a great idea to hold a crafty chair fair to showcase our talents in Upholstery, Caning, Rushing and Baking. Not only did we have many chairs on display but we also had demos going on [More…]
It’s not just soft furnishings, pretty fabric and pictures of kittens in the workshop, we also have a macho man hiding in the eaves. His name is Dave and is a handy asset to have around. Not only is he a dab hand with the drill and screwdriver, putting up shelves and the odd disco [More…]
