Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Amanda Brown encourages creative types who are looking to upgrade their furniture to think outside the box — big-box retailers, that is. “I’m not the same ...

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There are two different types of decorators – those who like to repair and repurpose furniture, and those who see a damaged chair or table and decide it's time to replace it with something new. But ...

Reupholstery is a key skill which has seen a renewed interest during the coronavirus lockdown. It is possible for beginners to handle some small reupholstery projects, but there is a risk of messing ...

Pauline Ives isn’t the type of person to throw something away if it’s in pretty good shape. So when the fabric on her husband’s motorized recliner began to deteriorate and the chair still reclined ...

Being able to upholster something at home is an incredibly useful skill. Once you learn to reupholster a chair, you can turn all kinds of thrift store throwaways into useful, good-looking furniture. A ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A winged chair stands with its claw and ball feet on a table in upholsterer Katerina Gibb’s studio. Having stripped ...

Most people who go to Cape Cod on vacation come home with something like a shark snow globe or cranberry-scented soap. A few years ago, I drove back from the beach with a yellow club chair wedged into ...

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