Crafted Upholstery

🔥 THERE IS STILL TIME 🔥 a new draft of fire safety legislation in regards to furniture is being consulted on by government until Oct 24th

This not only affects the upholstery community (business & health wise), but the general public. Furniture made using Fire Retardant chemicals are extremely harmful for us (children especially - affecting their neurological development and IQ for starters) and our environment. Particles of the chemical have been found as far away as the Arctic and in breast milk.

There are a few massive things at play - the use of FR chemicals and their general impact, the increased use of which is proposed. The other, the way in which furniture will be upholstered in the wake of these regulations.

Under new rules, the lack of an existing fire label on a piece of furniture will mean that upholsterers can no longer simply replace what is broken, even if the chair is in good shape, it must be stripped to the frame & completely rebuilt. For most clients it will push the cost of saving a piece is too high for them.

If a rebuild isn’t commissioned the furniture would need to be incinerated as it would be considered ‘toxic waste’. Charity’s could not take the furniture, nor could it be sold on second hand sites such as eBay. All would be prohibited.

Most pieces come to us with no labels - how many heirlooms will be lost to affordability? All the wonderful midcentury designs will be lost. Our businesses will suffer tremendously. Not only does this affect upholsterers, but also bespoke craftspeople, furniture dealers and interior designers, anyone whose business is second hand furniture.

A huge improvement could be made by moving to a different type of Fire Safety testing system that the U.S. now use, which eradicates the need for these chemicals. It is possible to have both fire safety and live in homes that don’t poison us.

Read more & sign on this site created & spearheaded by

Eco-chair.co.uk (link in bio!)

Excuse me for bragging 🙈 But….

Quietly delighted that our Collective has been featured in April issue as part of a round round up of their favourite upholsterers.

Sit Collective is made up of with friends & colleagues &

You can find us at sitcollective.com

FOR SALE: Need a place to rest your weary feet? I’ve just the thing! Ease those knees and brighten up any room with this ottoman.

The hardwood frame means it’s super sturdy. Covered in a super soft mustard wool from £250 ONO

It’s cold out there! 🥶 Time to get cosy indoors, snuggle up in your favourite chair, watch the lights twinkle on the tree 🎄It’s hibernation season!

Recovered in micro boucle fabric, this chair was made for coziness.

If your favourite chair needs a little TLC, get in touch!

Back in the old hood! Very flattered to have been invited back to LondonMet this evening, to speak with the 3rd year students about my experience of transitioning from student to working professional. Gulp! No imposter syndrome here, nope, none at all 🤞🫣😹

Blink and you’d miss it! I mean it’s only been a whole year for the follow up to the ‘sneak peek’ 🫣 Positively speedy! 🐌🐌🐌

If the illustrations on this fabric look familiar it’s because they’re the work of the talented 🧡
Taken from his original children’s book illustrations, they’ve been reimagined as fantastically fun fabric range for Being both a QB fan and an Aussie, the cockatoos are a personal favourite!

Striped back and waxed to lighten the wood work. The cockatoos are teamed with Omega velvet in Burnt Orange 🍊

Bribe your friends with gifts of upholstery
Quick recover of a friends Lloyd loom ‘lusty’ chair, good to find a use for some of my, perhaps a little too bountiful, supply of off cuts.

Four of six traditional sprung dinning chairs, handed down through the generations, they had more than a few surprises inside. Completely rebuilt and ready to sit around the family dinning table again.

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Unusual project completed with for .tube this week, covering these boxes in original Victoria Line (1967) moquette- this stuff is tough as old boots! Supplied by

The boxes will be supports for the oak bar top and serving bench in this tube carriage restaurant.

So it's not all chairs and cushions anyone else got anything interesting we can have a go at?!

A wee personalised ottoman toy box for a friends baby girl 👼🎀🧸🎁