Is it worth it to Reupholster or Re-Cover your Furniture?

If your furniture was made by one of the ‘Famous Name’ makes: Parker Knoll, Cintique, Ercol, G-Plan, Minty, Multiyork, M&S, Tetrad, Collins & Hayes or Laura Ashley then almost certainly, Yes.

There are of course many other smaller volume makers of high quality furniture and you will know from the price you paid, and where it came from, that it is of good quality.

And ‘good quality’ means more today than ever. In the last few years furniture manufacturing in the UK has virtually collapsed and much of what is on the market is mass produced in vast factories in the Far East and Eastern Europe. It is design-lead and generally not built to last.

Your good quality furniture will generally be made from Hard Wood which is increasingly rare – may have good quality polished show wood (which is even rarer!) and will be jointed with dowels rather than just glued and stapled.

As an overall test of quality, weight is a fair guide – if the furniture is heavy then it’s probably made from hard wood, while very light furniture may well be cheaply made. But a better guide is the condition it’s in. If at 10 years old the joints were pretty good and it was still comfortable – then its good quality, worth re-covering, and very likely to last a lot longer than a lot of mid-market furniture on sale today.

To gauge whether a particular piece is suitable for covers or re-upholstery we use the ‘knee test’. Put one knee on the seat and grab the back with both hands and gently try to twist it side to side. If the back moves a lot and the joints are loose, then it’s probably not worth putting covers on it, better to re-upholster (as long as the re-upholsterer will/is competent at knocking apart and re-setting joints).

One last consideration – and one of the most common reasons for having Covers or Re-Upholstery of course, is that it fits your room just right, or you just like it!

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