Thursday, December 26, 2013

Custom Hot Rod Interior and Happy Holidays!





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 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.

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.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Even More Antique Furniture Restored


These are two chairs that the customers used their creativity in picking out interesting materials. The top chair  is circa 1910 and the bottom one has three materials; cushions, sides, and welt.

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.

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.

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.

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.



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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.







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.

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.

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.