Velvet, linen or performance fabric: which suits your home
Choose the wrong sofa fabric and you’ll know within a year: shiny patches where everyone sits, a colour faded by the window, cushions that record every splash of tea.
Booth seating that survives service: a maintenance guide for restaurants
Restaurant seating works harder in a month than a home sofa does in a year: hundreds of sittings a week, handbags and keys dragged across it, heels against the base, cleaning chemicals every night and the occasional spilled espresso.
Chesterfield care: keeping deep-buttoned leather alive
A Chesterfield is not a sofa you replace. The deep buttoning, the rolled arms level with the back, the low, studded base — it was designed to outlast fashion, and plenty of them outlast their first owners.
Made to measure: what a custom sofa really involves
Sometimes the right sofa simply doesn’t exist. The alcove is an odd width.
Springs, webbing and wobble: a sofa frame repair guide
A wobble is never just a wobble. A sofa that creaks, rocks on its legs or dips at one corner is telling you something has let go inside — and the frame is exactly the part worth fixing, because a sound frame is what makes a sofa worth keeping at all.
How we rebuild a sagging sofa seat
A sofa rarely wears out all at once. It goes at the seat first: you sit down and sink a few centimetres lower than you used to, the front edge rolls you forward, and getting up takes a small push off the arms.
Reupholster or replace? A straight answer
It’s the first question almost everyone asks us: is it worth reupholstering, or should I just buy a new sofa? The honest answer depends on what’s underneath the fabric.