Furniture Upholstery



Furniture Upholstery

A Service of Winters Sewing

Stephen & Emmy

Winters Sewing

1111 Elm Street N.W.

Salem, Oregon 97304-4107

Phone 503-375-9266

Email: sewsj@

“In this fast paced world we take the time to give you friendly personal service.”

We can recover or rebuild your old furniture to give it new life.

Contents

Owner’s Background and Experience 1

Our Mission 2

Our Policies 2

Kinds of upholstery projects 2

Upholstery Services 3

Your Choices 5

Upholstery Prices 6

Owner’s Background and Experience

I have worked in the upholstery trade since 1966. After learning the trade while working with my father, I’ve refined my skill through the following years and eventually began working as a partner with my sister in our own business. In 1994 I moved to Salem with my wife and daughter and started my own business working from our home.

My experience and skills include:

• Woodworking (building and altering frames),

• Mechanics (furniture mechanisms)

• Inspection (condition of furniture)

• Artistry (creating beauty from distress)

• Design and layout (planning jobs)

• Sewing (all types of the home)

• Spring retying

• Padding – cushioning application & construction

• Fabric application

• Record-keeping

• Problem solving

• Attention to details

Our Mission

Our mission is to give you friendly personal service, to discover your unique needs, and to provide professional quality craftsmanship. Our ambition is to do the job right the first time. Your satisfaction is important to us.

Our Policies

Quality Workmanship.

Since I started into the upholstery business many years ago, I have sought to improve the quality of my craftsmanship. I have searched for better materials, tools, and methods of performing high quality work. When I find better materials I make them available to my clients. When I discover better tools or methods, I implement them.

Pricing: Estimate and Work Order

We strive to give an accurate price quote before we start any job. Prior to writing an estimate, we carefully inspect the condition of the furniture, assess the suitability and affects of the chosen fabric, present our findings, suggest possible choices, and ask about your concerns and expectations. Based upon this interaction, we try to clearly specify, on our estimate or work order, the services and materials that we will supply, and the associated charges for each of these. If we suspect that extra work or additional materials may be necessary, we also note this on the work order.

Before we begin your job, we write out a detailed work order, specifying what we will do, and the associated charges for each item, as shown in Figure 2.

No costs will be added without your prior approval. Similarly, if the you request changes, before proceeding with the work, we will assess what additional work or supplies that may be needed and then discuss any price changes with you.

Kinds of upholstery projects

We recover:

• Sofas

• Loveseats

• Chairs

• Recliners

• Dining room chairs

• Furniture cushions

• Throw pillows

• Footstools, ottomans

• Window seat cushions

• Patio Furniture

• Cornices

• Headboards

• Office furniture

• Church pews

• Boat seats

• Breakfast booths

• Sewing projects

• Repairs

We can also make new:

• Sofas and Chairs

(using pre-built furniture frames)

• Footstools

• Throw pillows

• All types of Cushions

□ Window seat cushions

□ Furniture cushions

□ Fireplace cushions

□ RV cushions

• Custom sewing jobs (upholstery related)

Upholstery Services

Several upholstery options are available:

• Pre-Upholstery Inspection Report

• Basic Upholstery

• Deluxe Upholstery

• Major Alterations or Rebuilding

• Custom fitting to your size

• Repairs & Alterations without Reupholstery

• Partial Upholstery

• Do-It-Yourself Advice

The best option depends upon the condition of the furniture, the chosen fabric and the preferences of the client.

Pre-Upholstery Evaluation Report

Two pre-upholstery evaluation reports will soon be available, a free report and a paid report. The free evaluation involves externally examining the condition, quality, type of your springs, frame, and padding. Unnecessary for many jobs, the more thorough paid internal evaluation includes the same as the free evaluation, but also involves us opening different sections of the furniture just enough so that we can see the actual condition of your furniture. The cost for this latter evaluation varies according to the amount of work we do. Using either evaluation report, you will be able to make more informed choices about your furniture needs.

Basic Upholstery

The basic cost upholstery service is a good choice for most simple furniture that is in good condition and just needs the cover changed. This service involves taking the old cover off the furniture, adding padding as needed, and putting on the new cover. If you desire more than a cover change, or if your furniture is more complicated, other options are also available.

Deluxe Upholstery

The many options of the Deluxe Upholstery can be customized to your needs and desires. After the cover is off, we do an inspection of the condition, quality, type of your frame, springs, and padding. We notify you if find that additional work needs to be done.

The cost varies according to several factors, including how many extra options and supplies are ordered, and how much work needs to be done. Choose from among the various options:

❑ Retie or replace seat springs

❑ Tighten joints

❑ Replace all support linings.

❑ Use same padding, but add more

❑ Replace all padding

❑ Match patterns

❑ Alter or repair the frame

❑ Custom fit to your size

We Can Make It More Comfortable

We can change many things to make it more comfortable for you. As an example of just a few of the available choices, we can:

• Change cushion foam to firmer or softer

• Use thicker or thinner foam

• Add seat springs to make the seat firmer

• Make your seat higher or lower

• Using taller or shorter legs

• Adding lumber to the frame

We can custom fit your furniture to your size

In addition to the other types of alterations available, we can alter the size, shape, and padding of your furniture to make it better fit you. This involves us measuring you as you sit in your chair, where to place the buttons, adding padding and shaping it to fit your back. This can also involve other alterations to the frame or springs, as listed elsewhere in this brochure.

Repair Frame or Springs

In addition to re-gluing, repairing or replacing any broken or weak sections, we can repair or replace most broken or damaged springs. Figure 3 shows a set of springs that needs to be retied; the jute spring-twine and the jute webbing are worn out causing the springs to be unusable.

Figure 4, shows the same springs after they have been retied. The springs in the back were also retied, as the picture shows.

Alterations: Change Style or Size

We can alter the frame, springs and padding of your furniture to make it more comfortable or to give it a different shape or appearance.

Figures 5, 6, & 7 Show a large recliner that we rebuilt to a smaller size. Pictures show the size and condition before, the frame before and after it was rebuilt, and the finished recliner.

We can:

• Make the furniture:

• Higher or lower

• Shorter or deeper

• Smaller or bigger

• Change seat cushions

• Change size or thickness

• Firmer or softer

• Make more or less cushions

• Make the arms:

• Firmer or Softer

• Wider or Narrower

• Round or Square

• Flat or Slanted

• Make the back

• Higher or Lower

• Softer or firmer

• Have more cushioning, or less

• Add or Remove wings

• Perform other customer work or alterations

Repairs & Alterations without Reupholstery

Is your furniture in good shape, except it just needs a few repairs or changes? Without replacing the fabric cover we can:

• Add or Replace Padding

• Repair or replace cushions or springs

• Repair or alter the wood frames

• Sew up loose seams

• Do miscellaneous repairs

Partial Upholstery

If you want to recover your furniture yourself, but don’t want to do the whole job, we can do part of it for you. We can do the challenging of difficult parts for you, such as retying the springs or sewing the cushions. To prevent unnecessary problems, we strongly suggest that you contact us before you get started.

Do-It-Yourself Advice

If you’d prefer to completely recover your own furniture, but just need a little advice, give us a call or drop by. We can be most helpful if you contact us before you get started, so that we can give you some advice and help avoid unnecessary mistakes. If you are already in the middle of a project and need some guidance, give us a call or drop by. We’ll cheerfully give you advice or help you work out solutions.

Slip Covers

We make custom fitted slipcovers, see figure 8. The cost of these slipcovers is very similar to the cost of reupholstery. We recommend having slip covers professionally cleaned.

Our slipcovers:

• Are individually custom fitted

• Have individually covered cushions

• Have zippers where needed

• Can be made in your choice of fabrics

• Give the appearance of newly upholstered

We make slipcovers to fit:

• Sofas • Chairs

• Loveseats • Hide-a-beds

• Cushions • Side chairs

Antiques

The amount of work needed and the cost to reupholster antiques vary according to age, condition and style of each antique. For antiques that are in good condition, we may only take off the old cover, add padding as needed, and then the new cover, as shown in Figure 9. Conversely, if a antique needs major repairs, we can strip it as much as necessary, even to the bare wood frame.

The upholsterers of yesteryear used the supplies and materials that they had readily available, such as horsehair, wood shavings, shredded rags and even dried grass. Some modern day upholsterers attempt to restore antiques using those original materials. By contrast, we operate under the premise of those previous generations of upholsterers; we use the excellent materials that are readily available today, such as high quality foam, cotton, spring twine, staples, and webbing.

When wood refinishing is desired or needed, we send those pieces to a professional wood refinishing shop or you can refinish it yourself.

Your Choices

Fabric

Pattern Match Options

A note about matching patterns. We take great care to match the patterns as best as possible. However, because not all furniture … some areas may not match exactly.

Centered Pattern

The pattern is centered on the top of the cushions, the inside back, the arms, the outside back and any other large areas of the furniture. As an example, figure 10 shows a large flower centered on the top of a cushion and on the front runner.

Matched Stripes

The stripes or patterns are matched vertically only. They are matched from the front bottom of the furniture up and over the cushions, the inside back and down the outside back. The inside arms match the outside arms. The welts are made out of a solid strip, or diagonally, or made out of another fabric. Figure 11 shows a cushion with the top and front stripes matched, and a solid color-matched welt.

Plaids

Plaids can be matched front to back and side to side, as much as possible. Matching plaids requires a substantial increase in labor and fabric. Figure 12 shows a swivel rocker covered in a plaid fabric.

Waterfall (or flow match)

The Dashed lines at A, B, & C of Figure 13 show the seams, notice how the pattern continues through each seam from the bottom of the furniture to the top.

This type of pattern match greatly increases the amount of labor and yardage needed.

Skirt Choices

Tailored (straight) Skirt

Perhaps the most common and most popular today, a Tailored Skirt, figure 14, hangs flat and straight across the bottom, with a pleat at each corner. Sofas and loveseats also have one or more extra pleats across the front. It is a good choice for most modern furniture styles.

Box Pleated Skirt

The box pleated skirt, figure 15, was very popular during the ‘70s. Although not as common today, it is still a good choice for Early American furniture, and where you want a less formal appearance than the tailored skirt.

Ruffled Skirt

A ruffled skirt, see figure 16, also called a gathered skirt, gives a soft finish to delicate furniture.

The Padding We Use

• Cotton

• Polyester

• Polyfoam

Cushioning

• Foam: Different grades available, We use the high quality grade.

• Latex foam also available.

• Spring cushions are another option.

Upholstery Prices

The Cost is determined by:

• Furniture style

• Simple styles cost less

• Fancy or complicated styles cost more

• Condition

• Padding

• Springs

• Frame

• Amount of work needed or requested

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Figure 1: Stephen & Emmy, with their 2 children, Sarah & Joseph.

Figure 14: Tailored Skirt

Figure 15: Box Pleat Skirt

Figure 16: Ruffled Skirt

Figure 11, Stripes Matched

Figure 10: Pattern Centered

Shown at the right is a Antique “throne like” chair covered in blue and beige woven damask type material.

Figure 13: Waterfall Matching

Figure 8 - With slipcover on chair

Figure 2: work order

Figure 12, Plaid Chair

Figure 3: springs need retying

Figure 4: after springs retied

Figure 9: Purple Antique Rocker

Figure 5: before

Figure 7: after

Figure 6: frame, Before & after

A

B

C

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