Is it worth recovering sofas?

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I misread the title and thought 'Recover the sofa from where and why is it missing?'

You made me laugh Nellie. I always come back to this thread in the hope that it will spur me on to find a decent upholsterer so that we can start having our Parker Knoll suite recovered. It was bought in the mid seventies as well (Norton)and is still comfortable despite looking a bit motheaten now. I keep telling DH that if we start with his chair it will be the least expensive option.

Flipping heck! I have made the same post twice! The first was in March. Why don't people read the previous stuff! I didn't realise this was a resurrected thead.

If its a a good quality to start with yes!
We bought two Parker Knoll Norton recliner chairs in about 1976.

When we bought our last sofa we ordered similar fabric and had both these chairs reupholstered in that fabric.

As the style of the new sofa and chair are similar as they are now in the same fabric they look very similar and fit together very well. The style is firm and upright and the seats are not too deep. I am a short arse and my back does not do well on deep soft floppy laid back seating.

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Every time I see this thread title, I think "CPR for sofas"

Just taken delivery of my re-upholstered favourite wing armchair, which I bought 7 years ago. To replace it with the same one would cost £900 today. I got the material myself (see earler post on 27/3) and I now have a beautiful, brand new chair costing £400 that will last for many more years. Definitely worth it, if the frame is good.

33 yrs ago I bought an oak framed 3 seat settee and chair since then have had the chair made into another 3 seat settee.
Replaced the cushions and covers a number of times making the covers removable for washing. We really have had our monies worth out of these settees.

After all these years it was time for something new when the family started complaining that they weren't comfortable any more.

I've been searching for 18 months to find the right size settees to replace my two old settees. I finally found the right settees (to order) two weeks ago.
I longed for something different leather instead of fabric, roll on June when my new settees will be delivered.

We have had our Cintique chairs for about 35 years. They have been recovered several times. I did them myself the first time. We may well have bought new chairs had I been able to find some that didn't make me feel like Jenson Button in the 'cockpit' of his formula 1 car. Modern chairs seem so narrow, I do like room for my knitting as well as my bottom.

We had our dining chairs recovered they look super!

Was well worth it they got new lease life!

agapanthus Did you ever get your sofas re-covered? We've got two Collins & Hayes settees also. They're about 15 years old. Although we've had all the covers cleaned a few times, I they're faded and past their best.

If you - or anyone else - has had their settees (particularly Collins & Hayes) re-covered, was it a great success? Has anyone used "chain" companies like Plumbs and Lynn Poly? (I think that's what they're called but I haven't seen any of their adverts lately so they might have folded).

My DH has been an upholsterer for the last 35 years, running his own little one man band. He always says yes to re-upholstering a sofa or chair that has a good frame. He is thinking of retiring very soon but all his old customers keep coming back and pusuading him to do just one more job for them. Alas I think he will be working in his shed until he is 90.

I had two 1970s Parker Knoll recliners recovered about 10 yrs ago when I bought a new sofa and chair. We bought extra of the fabric I had chosen for the new chairs. It was very worthwhile. The old chairs and newer sofa are sufficiently similar in style, to work well together.

The reupholsterer was recommended by the independent furniture store we bought the extra seats from. They are still very comfortable.

Oh good for them, when! There aren't many idiosyncratic shops like that around anymore, more's the pity.