4 March 2025 | leather cleaning tips
When a leather sofa smells and no amount of airing the room shifts it, the smell is almost never in the leather itself. It is in what is underneath: the foam, the fibre wrap, the webbing and the dust that has collected inside the frame over the years. That is why a...
25 February 2025 | Leather Expert Advice
Chesterfield sofa restoration cost depends far more on what is wrong with the sofa than on the sofa itself. A tired but sound Chesterfield with faded arms and a couple of loose buttons is a modest job. One with cracked seat panels, sagging springs and a decade of sun...
18 February 2025 | leather repair advice
If you are searching for how to repair a rip in a leather sofa, the short answer is that a proper repair is done from behind, not on top. The tear is backed with a sub-patch, the edges are bonded flat, the surface is rebuilt with flexible filler, and the colour is...
11 February 2025 | leather recolouring advice
Recolouring antique leather is a different job from recolouring a modern sofa. The whole point of an old Chesterfield, a club chair or a Victorian library chair is the depth of colour that has built up over decades: the darker glaze in the creases, the lighter high...
4 February 2025 | leather cleaning tips
A sticky leather sofa is one of the most common complaints we hear, and it almost never means the sofa is dirty in the ordinary sense. Stickiness on leather is usually a sign that something has built up on the surface (conditioner, polish, furniture spray, body oils)...
