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Thoughts on refresh, recycle, and upcycle

by toritaiyo on September 1, 2019 at 12:02 pm
Posted In: Interior Design alternatives

In our last post about DIY upholstery makeovers we talked about some of the elements you’ll want to focus on when you makeover your piece. In this post we backtrack a bit to mention the type of furniture you’ll want to do this with. And we also have a great fabric option to introduce to you.

Here are some thoughts on updating design that might give you fresh inspiration regardless whether you project is high-end design or something more DIY.

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Upholstery Makeover On A Dime

by toritaiyo on August 27, 2019 at 4:37 am
Posted In: Interior Design alternatives

Five Elements

As mentioned in the video above, there are at least five elements of any chair that you can change to makeover the look. They are: tufts and buttons, nail heads, skirts, legs, fabric.

Generally speaking you will need to have some good upholstery skill (and equipment) to fully change the fabric of an item.

But below are some ideas about how you can alter these same elements without any (or much) upholstery skill.

Tufts and buttons  – find pre-made buttons

(This way you won’t need a fabric button maker. Depending on the style of your chair you might need to open up some of the fabric from the back of the chair to apply buttons. See these videos on how to add buttons)

Nail heads – are relatively easy to apply (you will need an upholstery mallet, or something similar -like a hammer with the head covered with cloth, to drive them into the wood of the chair)

Skirts – easy to remove or add.

To remove chair skirts, see this video how to remove chair skirts video

To add is a bit trickier, you will need a staple gun to attach the skirt. But as far as the skirt itself goes, you can use premade bedskirts so you don’t have to sew a skirt from scratch. Cut them to the length you need, then use some decorative trim and a glue gun to finish off the cut edges.

Legs – If you remove the skirt you might what to also spice up the legs. You could refinish them, or replace them with more decorative ones. (How-to video from Kim’s Upholstery)

Fabric – fabric paint stencils

Not good at sewing or re-upholstery? Rather than changing the fabric, you might want to give it a new look with fabric paint instead. You can use a stencil to paint the design you want.

Here is a how-to video and there are others here.

Wild Style

by toritaiyo on September 23, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Posted In: Job posts, Jobs

Lovers of symmetry and reserved/status quo might gasp when they see it, but this is a pretty cool chair in my opinion.
It’s got a wild style.
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Commercial Drapery – Purple Rain for Tory Burch

by toritaiyo on August 3, 2011 at 12:25 am
Posted In: Job posts, Jobs

A Tory Burch store is set to open on August 5th in Town Center in Boca Raton.

When they had a last minute problem with their drapery who did they call?

SOS to the rescue!!!!


We did a rush job for the store – taking down the drapes, resizing them and then reinstalling all in two days!!

Don’t they look fabulous?!

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Commercial Upholstery – Doggy Decor

by toritaiyo on May 3, 2011 at 12:06 am
Posted In: Job posts, Jobs

Commercial drapery and upholstery job that we did for Camp Canine for their Boca and Hollywood locations.

doggy007

We created this draped display (for doggy dresses). the blue bow tie style tie-back has a silver diamond-studded dog bone.
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