This will be in the World of Wheels Milwaukee auto show this winter. We upholstered the seats, door panels, dash, headliner, and did the carpet
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Snowmobile Backrest And Restaurant Chairs
A customer added the back two cushions to his snowmobile but they did not match the original solo seat, so we recovered them to match the original colors. We also did 30 chair cushions for Brett Favre's Joey Bouna's Restaurant in downtown Milwaukee.
Labels:
Commercial,
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Before And After 1920s Chairs Restored
The 1920s was a cool era. The before and after pictures of these Deco style chairs show how great it is to restore something instead of buying a reproduction. We used black and white leather with french natural studs.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Even More Antique Furniture Restored
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Return Customer And Picture From The Archives
We made the top for this Facel Vega Facillia years ago, the owner came back for us to recover the seats and fit them for 5 point harness seat belts. We finished the seats a while back but it took a while to dig through the old pictures and digitize this one.
Labels:
Auto,
Upholstery
Thursday, November 21, 2013
2 Sets of Antique Chairs With Hair On Hide Leather
We recovered two sets of 1920s chairs with hair on hide leather. We also stretched in new webbing and added new foam. The owner loved the decorative tacks.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Antique Couch Restored And Antique Chairs Resprung
This customer wanted his mother's couch redone to match her antique chairs' colors. We fixed the springs and webbing on the chairs. We refinished the wood and added new foam and webbing on the couch too.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, November 7, 2013
6 Antique Mermaid Chairs Restored
We finished these antique mermaid chairs just in time for the owners trip to an auction. They belong to 9th street antiques in Walkers Point Milwaukee.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, October 31, 2013
1967 Cadillac Leather Seat Recover
We reupholstered the rear seat in this 67 Cadillac with perforated leather inserts and recolored the door panels and front seat.
Labels:
Auto,
Upholstery
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Even More Antique Furniture Restored
We recovered some nice piece's here, it is a pleasure to work on customers treasures. We recovered this set of red furniture, replaced the springs with stretched webbing and foam, before adding in the buttons and tacks. On the other piece we also replaced the webbing and foam before recovering it with fabric and adding decorative tacks.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, October 17, 2013
More Antique Chairs Restored
These are a great set of chairs a customer brought in. They are from the early 1900s. We recovered them with new fabric, foam, buttons, and tacks.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Antique Chair Recovered And Custom Diamond Stitched Cycle Seat
A couple of nice projects, An antique couch and chair that we refinished the wood, resprung, refoamed, and recovered. Whew, turned out great. We also recovered and custom diamond stitched this cycle seat with a black vinyl.
Labels:
furniture,
Motorcycle,
Upholstery
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Custom Excaliber Kit Car Convertible Top From Scratch
We made a new convertible top for this Kit Car. We used original Stayfast canvas and strata glass for the window.
Labels:
Auto,
Upholstery
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Custom Motorcycle Seat And Rocking Chair Recover
We recovered this cycle seat in vinyl with two textures and added a gel insert. We recovered the rocker with a nice nature pattern polyester fabric and new foam and webbing after we rubbed down the wood with oil to even out the color in the worn spots.
Labels:
furniture,
Motorcycle,
Upholstery
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Unique Leather Chairs
Here's a couple of great chairs we had the pleasure of working on. The top one is a hand tooled leather insert that we nailed through a vinyl covered molded base with decorative french nails.
The bottom was a hair on cow hide that we attached to a rattan chair frame.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Six Antique Chairs Restored
We recovered these chairs for an antique dealer. We put in new foam, brocade material., button tufted the backrests, and put in a whole lot of decorative tacks. They are circa 1910.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Before, During, And After Antique Couch Recover
We refinished, retied the springs, recovered, and french tacked this 1930s couch. We love the color velour she picked for it.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Custom Truck Seats, Again
We have recovered 2 sets of truck seats for Dawes Trucking. One was a few years ago for a truck show which you can see by clicking here and the second set was for another truck going in a show. We used black heavy duty vinyl with green inserts that we stitched pleats with black thread. The embroidery was done by Bayview Threadworks.
Labels:
Auto,
Upholstery
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Antique Sleepy Hollow Chair Recovered Like Original
An awesome chair! Karpen - Sleepy Hollow, Chicago Ill. circa 1908 - 1912. We button tufted dark green leather and replaced all the foam.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
Thursday, August 15, 2013
56 Crown Vic Headliner, Trunk Carpet, And Interior Install
We finished a 1956 Crown Victoria, we did the Headliner white with blue welting in the seams. We also carpeted the front and trunk and installed the door panels and covered all the armrests.
Labels:
Auto,
Upholstery
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Custom Furniture Time!
Here are some furniture projects we worked on the last month. The customer found in stock remnants for the bench in the top picture.
Labels:
furniture,
Upholstery
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