East Victoria Park workshop · Perth metro-wide
Second Sitting Upholstery Every good chair deserves a second sitting.
Re-upholstery and recovering done properly — frames checked, webbing replaced, springs re-tied, new fabric cut and fitted on our East Vic Park bench. Armchairs, sofas, dining seats and café banquettes, across Perth since 2011.
The Recover Studio
Pick a piece, pick a fabric — watch it recover.
Piece
Fabric grade
Count
An armchair drinks 5–6 metres and a 3-seater 11–13 — our from-prices include house-grade fabric, and the card splits the labour and fabric lines so you can see both. Bring-your-own fabric takes $200 off if it's upholstery-weight, and we'll say plainly if it isn't.
What we recover
Straight prices, stated before the shears come out.
Every from-price covers strip-back, frame check, re-tie and re-web as needed, new fabric supplied in the chosen grade, made and fitted. What moves the price is the fabric — and we'll show you exactly how much.
Armchair recovering
from $1,250Stripped to the frame, webbing retensioned, calico fitted, then your fabric — house linen included, performance weave +$180, velvet +$320.
Sofa recovering
from $1,950Two-seaters from $1,950, three-seaters from $2,450. Performance weave +$260, velvet +$450 on sofas — an honest premium for honest metres.
Dining chair seats
from $95 a seat (min four)Drop-in seats recovered in our commercial-grade range — one honest rate, chosen at the bench. Fresh foam is part of the job.
Café & banquette work
from $480/lm (min $960)Split vinyl and tired banquettes re-covered in commercial vinyl or performance weave — cloth that survives a lunch rush.
Cushion & foam replacement
from $120 a cushionNew-density foam cut to your covers, or added to any recover. A firm seat is half of what "worn out" actually means.
Frame repairs
quoted at inspectionRe-gluing a loose joint is honest money — we price it separately so you can see the frame's share of the job.
Workshop rules
The things we'd rather say now than later.
Frame honesty
If it's flat-pack under the fabric we'll say spend the money on a new one — recovering is for furniture with bones.
Heirloom honesty
Your grandmother's webbing gets replaced, not patched — that's the part you can't see, and the part that was sagging.
Eight-week honesty
Good work queues. Allow 6–8 weeks from fabric approval — a chair rushed is a chair done twice.
Fibre honesty
Velvet marks and linen creases — that's what those fabrics do. We'll match the fibre to how the seat actually gets sat in.
Word from the bench
Chairs that came back better than remembered.
"Grandfather's chair came back the day before the funeral, and everyone sat in it. That's all I wanted and I couldn't say it out loud — they understood anyway."
"My Parker frame finally wears the wool it deserved. They talked me out of the cheaper cloth and showed me why on a corner offcut. Right call."
"Our banquettes stopped being the thing customers mentioned. Six linear metres, done over a long weekend, back before Tuesday's coffee rush."
Reviews are demonstration copy, written for this fictional business.
Service area
One workshop, the whole metro.
The bench lives in East Victoria Park. Pickup and delivery runs across the Perth metro — the map shows the near ring, but a good frame in Joondalup or Rockingham gets the same van and the same care.
Asked at the bench
Questions we answer every week.
How much does it cost to recover an armchair?
From $1,250 including house-grade fabric — an armchair drinks 5–6 metres, and fabric is what moves the price. Performance weave adds $180, velvet adds $320, and the quote splits the labour and fabric lines so you can see both. Nothing gets cut until you've approved the fabric and the figure.
Is it worth re-upholstering, or should I buy new?
Good frame, yes. Flat-pack, no — and we'll tell you which you own before any money changes hands. Hardwood frames, doweled joints and sprung seats are worth recovering for decades; stapled pine and foam blocks aren't, and saying so is part of the service.
Can I supply my own fabric?
Yes — if it's upholstery-weight, and we'll say plainly if it isn't. Bring-your-own takes $200 off the from-price. Bring us the fabric's rub-count if you have it; if the cloth won't survive the seat, we'd rather lose the sale than fit it.
How long does it take?
Allow 6–8 weeks from fabric approval. Good work queues — the bench takes one piece at a time, and a chair rushed is a chair done twice. Café and commercial jobs can be scheduled over a closure weekend; ask when you book.
Do you fix the frame too?
Yes — loose joints get re-glued and re-blocked while the piece is stripped, which is the only honest time to do it. Frame work is quoted at inspection and priced separately, so you can see the frame's share of the job.
Do you work in leather?
We're a fabric house — linen, weaves, velvet, commercial vinyl. Leather wants different tools and different hands, so we refer it to the trade that does it daily rather than doing it occasionally. You'll get a name, not a shrug.
Request a quote
Tell us about the piece.
Describe the piece and its story — on the real site you'd upload photos here. We'd call you back within one business day with an honest figure and an honest queue.
Prefer to talk? (08) 9000 0268
Workshop hours Tue–Sat, 8am–4pm. Pickup runs Thursdays.
Thanks — we've got it.
We'd call you back within one business day to talk fabric, metres and the queue. Nothing gets cut until you've approved both the cloth and the figure.
This is a demonstration page — no enquiry was sent anywhere.