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Planning For Your Restaurant’s Interior: Restaurant Upholstery Fabric

restaurant upholstery fabric

Choosing furniture for your home allows you to maximize your creative liberty. Each room can offer a different setting, letting you enjoy your private spaces while reflecting your character. Choosing restaurant upholstery fabric, however, is another thing. Primarily, you’re not just thinking for yourself but for the image you’re trying to project.

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Fabric Pattern Terms Explained Part 1

Prints and patterns add a wonderful imagery in your home decor fabrics. Instead of utilizing solid colors, you can play up with your upholstery by finding the right kind of print to go with your motif. Here at KOVI Fabrics, we’ve collected more than a dozen types of patterns, each created to suit your design panache. If you’re confused as to what kind of style fits right for you, we’re sharing a list of delectable designs to aid you in your interior decoration.

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Measuring Upholstery 101 (Part 3): Ottoman

Upholstered Ottoman

In the third installation of our “Measuring Upholstery” series, we’ll be talking about how to get the right dimensions for reupholstering contemporary chairs called ottoman. Despite being small in size, this furniture creates a wonderful impact in your room, being versatile in many ways. It can be used as a seat, a foot rest and sometimes, a mini table. Because of its use, it can be easy for your ottoman to wear out. However, refurbishing it can be fun. Unlike chairs and sofas, a DIY upholstery project for an ottoman is an easier task.

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Measuring Upholstery 101 (Part 2): Sofa

measuring upholstery

We talked about how to measure fabric size for your chair reupholstery project last time. In our second “Measuring Upholstery” series, we will tackle getting the right sizes for your sofa. A threadbare, old long couch looks tacky in the middle of your living room, but you can turn it into a lovely piece once you refurbish its usable parts.

By replacing the aged and dirty fabric, your sofa can blend into your interiors, looking brand new.

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Measuring Upholstery 101 (Part 1): Chairs

Wing Chair

Thinking of reupholstery for your favorite chair? Perhaps it has been with you for many years and you have grown fond of it. Or maybe your pet has scratched off some of the obvious parts that you can’t hide from your guests. Whatever reason you may have, choosing to reupholster your chair is a good decision. For one, you are reusing an item of sentimental worth and giving it a new, fresh design with the help of newer patterns and better fabrics.

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Reupholstering a Chair

chair upholstery

If the chairs in your dining room have seen better days and are worn, you might be thinking about replacing them. If it’s in your budget and you’re able to locate chairs in a style that fits your décor, and you like, that’s great.

An option that gets overlooked includes reupholstering the chairs you presently own. It’s a project you’re able to do yourself, is affordable, and may completely alter the appearance of a dining room.

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