08/18/2026
A little reintroduction, as Hudson Valley Upholstery gets closer to turning two.
Hi, I’m Lauren.
Almost two years ago, Hudson Valley Upholstery was just me, a residential sewing machine, and a growing suspicion that I had accidentally started a business.
I didn’t come from a traditional upholstery background. I started because I loved old furniture, wanted to learn how to save it, and discovered very quickly that I wasn’t the only person in the Hudson Valley looking for someone who could.
These are some photos from the beginning.
I learned by doing. By taking things apart and figuring out how to put them back together. By asking for help when I got stuck. By staying up far too late. By caring very, very much about getting someone’s chair back home to them.
And somewhere along the way, this became so much bigger than furniture.
Today, there’s a team behind Hudson Valley Upholstery. There are people learning a trade, teaching one another, solving problems together, laughing in the workroom, and taking enormous pride in the pieces that leave our hands.
And there’s another community on the other side of our doors.
Clients come in for fabric appointments and sometimes become friends. We hear where the chair came from. Who used to sit in it. Why it matters. What room it’s going into. We talk about houses, grandparents, kids, dogs, renovations, dinner parties and life while fabric books slowly take over the table.
When a piece stays with us for weeks or months, it becomes part of our story, too. We know it by name. Everyone checks on it. We celebrate when it’s finished.
Then we send it home to become part of yours again.
That might be what I’m most grateful for as we approach year two.
Not simply that this little business grew. But that people trusted us enough to let us grow with them.
To every client who took a chance on me in the beginning, every person who has left us a five-star review, every vendor and fellow craftsperson who answered my questions, and every person who has worked beside me: thank you. You built this, too.
Here’s to the things worth keeping, the stories still being written, and everyone we haven’t met yet.
