Upholsterer in Cheadle.

Some people find this page while they are still searching for furnishing fabric in Cheadle, and choosing the cloth before the upholsterer is a sensible order to do it in. Our showroom at the workshop carries pattern books from the mills we buy from, which you can handle at full size and hold up to the light rather than judge on a screen. Browse the fabrics page first if you want a starting point. Bring a cushion cover or a paint card from the room when you come: a colour that suits a sunny Cheadle Hulme conservatory can look quite different in a north-facing lounge, and seeing the cloth beside something from the house settles it faster than any photograph.

If you have already found a fabric elsewhere, that is fine too. Send us its width and pattern repeat before you order, and we will work out the metreage so you do not end up a metre short on a patterned cloth. The one caveat: we cannot warrant how a fabric we did not supply will wear.

The pieces that tend to justify the drive from SK8 are ones with a good frame under a tired cover: a wingback or armchair that has sat in the same bay window for years, a footstool that matches it, a set of dining chairs from a house move. Recovering is not always the cheaper option, and we will tell you when it is not. Our article on whether it is worth reupholstering a sofa sets out how we make that call.

Where a chair needs more than a cover, the repairs and restoration service covers loose joints and rails, re-springing, rebuilding a sagging seat, and leather repair and re-dyeing. Dining chairs are covered separately on the dining chair reupholstery page.

Most domestic jobs take two to four weeks from the day the piece arrives, and single dining chairs are often back within a week. The quote tells you the timescale before anything is stripped. When you are ready, send photos through the quote form or on WhatsApp, and say whether you would rather drop the piece off or have it collected.

• Older pieces from Cheadle: reupholstery and rejuvenation, restored the way they were built where that makes sense.
• A broken spring, split seam or collapsed seat: repairs and restoration, sorted without a full recover.
• Drop-in seats that have worn through: dining chair reupholstery, often back within a week for a single chair.
• Three-piece suites from Cheadle: sofa and suite recovering, where collection is shared across the pieces.