About · the workshop
We will tell you when a piece is not worth it.
Two trades, one bench. Furniture you already own, rebuilt from the frame out. Headboards cut to the wall they go on.
01 — The bench
Four steps.None of them skipped.
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Stripped
Every tack out, every cover off. You are told what the bare frame shows.
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Made sound
Joints re-glued and cramped, webbing strained, springs re-tied. The creak goes here.
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Built up
Wadding and cover cut to your frame, never to a pattern. No slack, no wrinkles.
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Finished
Colour and polish last — the one step with no way back, so it waits.
Not every fabric will take deep buttoning, so ask us before you buy the cloth.
What we do to a chair
02 — What we believe
Four thingswe will argue about.
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The frame is the piece. Cloth and foam you can change your mind about.
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We would rather you saw a repair than had to trust one.
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Most pieces called beyond repair are not. Most flat-pack ones are.
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A headboard is a proportion problem first. The fabric is the easy half.
03 — The mark
One drawing,cut three ways.
An infinity loop woven through its own crossing, above a bed base. The break is drawn, not faked.
04 — The people
This space isreserved.
Names, roles and portraits belong here. None have been supplied, so none have been invented.
Show us the pieceyou nearly replaced.
Send one photograph and a line about what is wrong. You will hear what we would do — and what we would leave alone.
