Materials used to cover seats, chairs, couches, and other pieces of furniture are commonly referred to as upholstery materials. When your favourite item of furniture is looking tired or worn out, you may like to renew the material covering via the process of re-upholstery.

Re-upholstering your furniture:

 

• Saves you time and money in ordering a new piece of furniture.
• Gives you the freedom to choose the exact colour, pattern and fabric type you want to cover your furniture piece.
• Allows you to keep and use old, favourite pieces of furniture that may carry sentimental value.

Before you go ahead with the re-upholstering you will have to choose a fabric to use.

Important things to consider when doing this include:

 

• What it is you need to re-upholster.
• The quality of the fabric, as upholstery fabric needs to be durable to prevent future wear.
• What sort of stain-resistance the fabric offers.
• How the fabric of choice blends in with other pieces in the room.
• The thickness of the fabric, as thicker fabrics are harder when used to re-upholster.

Fabrics that you may choose from to re-upholster include:

 

• Nylon
• Olefin
• Cotton
• Polyester
• Rayon
• Leather

It is possible to save further on expenses and carry out a do-it-yourself re-upholster job, but unless you have some sort of experience, your time and money would be better spent engaging the services of a professional upholsterer to get the job done for you.