Inspirations, Guides, How-tos
Do it your self guides and how-to ideas.
To correctly sew trim on a pillow, you should first choose the best and most appropriate trim that is within your sewing skills to add to your pillow. Next, you should pre-shrink the trimmings to ensure it doesn’t shrink when you sew it on. After this, you should carefully pin the trim in place, making sure that you carefully fold box pleats on the corners or cut away excess trim.
With so many different trims available for upholstery and curtaining, gimp is a somewhat surprising phrase for an ornamental section or strip that is used to hide joints and seams. Unlike the unpleasant associations that the word has, gimp is something quite beautiful.
Nothing even comes close to the unique beauty of leather. Whether you use leather on your living room couch, home office desk chair or the headboard in your bedroom, it will instantly upgrade the look and feel of your home and increase the value of your furniture. Well-made leather will last a lifetime, becoming more magnificent with age.
Many of us tend to have strong opinions about the color we bring into our homes. We either love a bright pop of color, find ourselves drawn to neutrals, earth tones, pastels, and sometimes even black and white.
Poorly chosen curtain and soft furnishing trimmings are simply inappropriate. When you use trimmings in your decor scheme, they should resonate with the style of decorations. Adding plush trimmings to a minimalist style may not be ideal, nor will adding a tight corded braid be appropriate to a Victorian and opulent style.
We’ve all been there. Washed that fancy new curtain you bought only to have the trimmings curl up like yesterday’s pasta, which is still stuck in the pot. Disaster!
Today we’ll take just a bit of the tough out of tufting so your upholstery project doesn’t take the stuffing out of you. We’ll explore what tufting is, the most common types, and we’ll set you up with a selection of DIY tips and tools to get you on your way to taking your reupholstery project to the next level.
There was already an accelerating trend toward the RV and mobile home lifestyle pre-pandemic. But now? Holy cow! As a professional upholsterer, you know better than anyone the stunning shift in demand for reupholstering RV and mobile homes — both for commercial and residential needs.
Many of us have gotten to know our furniture VERY well over the last year. Perhaps you and your couch have, well, kind of become one. That’s okay. It’s nice to break-in your furniture. It’s certainly nice when you arrive at a sink-in-comfort that fits you like a glove!
If you are not a DIY-er or you are – but have a project that is just a little over your skillset, or toolbox, you can always contract out the work to a professional upholsterer. Furniture upholstery is something that lives with you for a long time, so you want to make sure that it is done right – not just aesthetically, but technically, so that the craftsmanship endures throughout the years.