Upholstery for your home
Sofas, dining chairs, headboards and antique chairs: rebuilt from the frame up.
The three-piece you grew up sitting on. The dining chairs that have outlived three tables. The Victorian wing chair that came with the house, and the headboard you saw in a magazine and want made for real. Bring it to a Guild of Master Craftsmen accredited Stalybridge workshop with roots back to 1978 as J.P. Hirst Upholstery. Spring work, frame repairs and fabric choices are explained before we quote.
What we do for homeowners
Home services. One workshop. Built by hand.
Armchair and wing chair reupholstery
Armchairs, wing chairs, recliners and antique or traditional chairs stripped back, rebuilt and recovered in our Stalybridge workshop. Armchairs and wing chairs are a major share of the work we do.
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Sofa & suite recovering
Revitalise your settee. Three-piece suites, sectional sofas and corner units recovered to match, with pattern, scale and piping carried through.
See this serviceDining chair reupholstery
Dining chair seats and backs recovered as matched sets, with fabric direction, padding, edge finish and everyday use considered before we quote.
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Headboard upholstery
Bespoke, recovered and deep-buttoned headboards made or re-covered in fabric that suits the room, with sizing, wall fixing and finish agreed before work starts.
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Bench, banquette and window seat cushions
Made-to-measure cushions for kitchen benches, banquettes, window seats and fixed seating. Window seat cushions from around £55, fixed seating priced per metre. Foam and cover on your joiner's boards or ours.
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Garden and outdoor cushions
Made-to-measure garden and outdoor furniture cushions from Stalybridge. Rattan sets, patio benches, swing seats and L-shape garden seating, in dryfast foam and fade-resistant outdoor fabric. New covers from around £55 each.
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Bar stool reupholstery
Bar stool reupholstery in Stalybridge for breakfast bar stools at home and pub, hotel, cafe and barber stools in batches. Round pads from around £55, high-back stools priced from a photo. Bases checked while the seat is off.
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Upholstered wall panelling
Upholstered wall panels and padded feature walls made to measure in Stalybridge. Headboard walls, panelled feature walls, golf-simulator impact panels and acoustic panels, built on your boards or ours and fitted or handed to your joiner.
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Foam replacement and cut to size
New high density reflex foam for sofas, caravans, boats and bespoke seating. The foam can be cut to your specific dimensions and is available in multiple grades.
See this serviceReplacement sofa cushions
Replacement sofa cushion foam, fibre wrap and cushion covers quoted from sizes or existing cushions, for seats that have gone flat, soft or uneven.
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Repairs and restoration
Broken frames, sagging seats, snapped springs, torn leather, missing buttons, recliner mechanisms: fixed properly, not patched.
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Home cinemas, games rooms and the rooms most people don't see.
Beyond the everyday sofa-and-suite work, we recover the seating in private spaces that need a craftsman rather than an off-the-shelf solution. Home cinema chairs and tip-up rows. Snooker and games room benches. Bar seating in basement or garden-room conversions. Period studies and libraries with chairs worth restoring. Discreet, by-appointment, and we don't talk about whose house we were in.
- Home cinema seating. Reclining row seats, tip-up auditorium chairs, fixed bench seating. Cinema-grade fabrics and high-resilience foam, matched across rows.
- Games and snooker rooms. Bench seating, banquettes, snooker spectator chairs and bar stools. Built to live with cues, drinks and a busy room.
- Bar and entertainment areas. Banquettes, booth seating and stools for basement bars, garden rooms and converted outbuildings.
- Period studies and libraries. Chesterfields, wingbacks, leather captain's chairs and deep-button work. Traditional hand techniques where the piece warrants it.
- Discretion as standard. No project is shared on social, in case studies or with the press without explicit written permission. NDAs honoured.
- Site visits across Cheshire and the North West. For larger or fitted installations, we'll visit, measure and quote on site rather than from photos.
Pricing: no surprises
Around £30/m fabric is what most homes pick.
About half of our domestic customers choose between £25 and £30 per metre, and the average across our quotes is just over £30. Ranges run from £15 to around £120 per metre. Pick something cheaper and the quote drops accordingly. We’ll tell you, not upsell you.
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Areas we cover
Home upholstery across Tameside, Oldham and Greater Manchester.
- Stalybridge
- Dukinfield
- Audenshaw
- Mossley
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Mottram
- Droylsden
- Hattersley
- Hyde
- Denton
- Uppermill
- Openshaw
Visits, collection and delivery
Send photos first. We’ll tell you what the job needs.
- Photos are enough for most quotes. Front, side, damage and a rough size usually gives us what we need.
- Bring smaller pieces in. Dining seats, cushions and headboards can come straight to Grosvenor Street.
- Home visits for larger jobs. Suites, awkward access and multi-piece jobs can be measured on site before we quote.
Bring your favourite piece back to life.
Free no-obligation quote, usually back the same day. Send photos, drop the piece in to the shop in Stalybridge, or we’ll come and see it.