Online Projects

There are now well over 100 projects on the JBerryUpholstery website! A wide ranging selection and it continues to grow!

Projects included are only those I find enjoyable, have great results or include interesting and informative details.

Projects range from reasonably straightforward – stools and cushions – to the very complicated – winged armchairs!

There are well known makes – Multiyork, Parker Knoll, Lloyd Loom, G-Plan, Ercol, Finn Juhl, Cintique, Gordon Russell of Broadway.

Then particular types – Art Deco, Prie Dieu, Slipper, Marquetry, Ironback, Reclining, Rattan, Chesterfield.

Also different periods – Regency, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, 20C – even 21st!

And some don’t fit such groups – Canapé, Rocking Horses, Ottoman.

Could be confusing! Posts like this give an introduction with pictures and links to the full story. While the posts are removed a few weeks later, the pages remain.

Click any image here to see their story. Once on the website, use the search box at the bottom of every page to look for items you are interested in – or send me an email asking for help!

And while you’re at it, please, please, do the decent thing and ‘like’ or ‘comment’ on these posts. I hope you enjoy reading them. After all, they come with pictures!

JBerryUpholstery has many examples of furniture Recovering and Restoration and also Soft Furnishings to add to or complement the finished items. You can see pictures of these in the Galleries – Recovering Gallery, Restoration Gallery, Soft Furnishings Gallery and Transformations.

If you have some upholstery that is in need of a bit of TLC or you are interested in Soft Furnishings then please contact us.

Winged Chair – A Restoration Project

This attractively shaped winged chair probably dating from around the middle of the last century when Parker Knoll, G-Plan and others started using the tension springs that support the seat of this chair.

While the chair and seat cushions needed new covers, the seat front was falling off, other joints needed repairing, springs needed reseating and the polish work was dulled – definitely a restoration project.

Finished chair with new cushion cover in place

But what a difference! Click HERE or on any image to see more details.

If you have some upholstery that is in need of a bit of TLC or you are interested in Soft Furnishings then please contact us.

Modern Parker Knoll

Parker Knoll still continues to make excellent furniture in England after 150 years. We have documented the restoration of an older model, the PK708, and recovering of another older model, the PK988.

Here we have a much more modern Parker Knoll winged armchair. A new cover was wanted even though the original was still in good shape.

The modern build gives rise to many changes of materials used and construction methods – lots to learn!

Click HERE or on the images to see the whole story.

If you have some upholstery that is in need of a bit of TLC or you are interested in Soft Furnishings then please contact us.

Winged Chair

This is the first Winged Chair where the wings came off! Deliberately by the way, not by accident.

The grubby calico cover had to go, the sagging webbing replaced – and actually the entire seat – so lots to do.

The end result was worth it.

To see the full story, click this LINK or any of the pictures.

If you have some upholstery that is in need of a bit of TLC or you are interested in Soft Furnishings then please contact us.

Winged Chair

On the surface, this enormous Winged Chair looked sound. But problems lurked inside!

From metal webbing, collapsed stuffings, rotten fabric to mysterious straps the tale can be followed HERE or by clicking on any of the images.

If you have some upholstery that is in need of a bit of TLC or you are interested in Soft Furnishings then please contact us.

Winged Chair

This attractive chair, another winged chair, had a very soft seat that needed complete replacement.

The original cover dating from 1954 – if we believe the inscription discovered on the frame – was curiously complicated.

Once the chair was stripped and the seat removed, rebuilding could start.

I’ve included a lot of detail of this interesting project, fine result. See it HERE or click on any of the images.

If you have some upholstery that is in need of a bit of TLC or you are interested in Soft Furnishings then please contact us.