Chairs, sofas, dining seats, cushions, slipcovers and antique frames, in a shop on Main Street in Liberty. Bring the piece in or send photographs and we will tell you what it needs, how many yards it takes, and what the labour costs, as two separate numbers, before you decide anything.
One shop, one address, one phone number · Yardage and labour quoted separately · Six to eight weeks in the shop
What we take in
The first thing that happens is not a sale. It is somebody looking at the frame and telling you whether the piece is worth the money. A hardwood frame with an eight-way hand tied spring deck is worth reupholstering almost regardless of what it costs, because you cannot buy that new for three times the price. A stapled pine frame from a big box store is not, and we will say so and send you home with the chair.
Wing chairs, club chairs, recliners, rockers, occasional chairs, office chairs. Stripped to the frame, joints checked and re-glued if they are loose, springs retied where they need it, new burlap, new cotton and Dacron over the foam, then covered. Welt cord made from your fabric unless you want a contrast.
$600–$1,100 plus fabric
The whole piece, including the deck and the inside arms most people never see. Loose cushions get new foam and a wrap unless the old foam is genuinely still good, and we will tell you which it is by squeezing it in front of you. A sofa is between fourteen and twenty-two yards depending on the arms and whether the pattern has a repeat.
$1,400–$2,600 plus fabric
The cheapest thing we do and the one that fixes the most complaints. New high density foam cut to the old cover, wrapped in Dacron so it fills the corners, and a new zipper if the old one is going. If the fabric is still good, this alone makes a sofa feel like it did.
from $95 a cushion
Pin-fitted on the actual piece, not cut from a pattern, so the seams sit where the chair's seams sit. Washable, with a tie or a tuck-in skirt as you prefer. This is the right answer for a piece you like the shape of, a household with dogs, or a chair that has to survive four more years before anybody spends real money on it.
from $450 plus fabric
Joint re-gluing, broken rail repair, replacing webbing that has stretched, and eight-way hand tying a spring deck the way it was originally done. Show wood cleaned and touched up rather than stripped and refinished, unless you specifically want it refinished.
quoted per piece
Marine vinyl and outdoor fabric, quick dry foam that actually drains, and thread that does not rot in the sun. Bench seats, helm chairs, dinettes and patio cushions. We work off the old covers or off a template you make from cardboard, and there are instructions for that we can send you.
quoted per set
What it costs
Every price above is labour, and fabric is separate, which is the part nobody explains and the reason two shops can quote the same chair a thousand dollars apart. A chair takes six to eight yards, a loveseat ten to fourteen, a sofa fourteen to twenty-two, and a pattern with a large repeat adds one to three yards because it has to line up across the cushions. Fabric off our racks runs $30 to $90 a yard. You are also welcome to bring your own, which plenty of people do, and we will tell you before you buy it whether it is heavy enough for the piece. Half down when the piece comes in, the rest when it goes home. Prices here are illustrative for this preview.
Recent work
These are labelled by what the piece actually is, because that is what people search for and what they recognise. If yours is close to one of these, the price on that job is close to yours. The one thing photographs cannot show is the part that took the longest, which is nearly always the frame underneath.
The shop
Owner name goes here has been doing this work long enough to have redone pieces twice for the same family, once for the grandmother and once for the granddaughter who inherited the chair. The shop takes in about eight pieces a week and everything is done here, on these benches, by the people you meet at the counter.
The reason this page exists is dull and expensive: the shop's address is published two different ways online. One directory has one street, another has a different one, a review mentions a move, and people have driven to the wrong building and given up. There is one address, it is the one in the header and in the footer of this page and nowhere else, and it has one phone number attached to it. That is the entire point of the first paragraph, and everything after it is just chairs.
Owner name goes here, Liberty
Finding the shop
123 Main St
Liberty, MO 64068
On Main Street with a loading door at the back off the alley, which is where furniture goes in and out. Pull round the back for anything bigger than a dining chair. There is a public lot behind the building and street parking on Main. The front door is at sidewalk level and the shop floor is one level throughout.
Bring the piece in during shop hours if you can, because five minutes with a hand on the frame settles more than any number of photographs. If you cannot move it, send photographs from the front, the back, one arm and one underneath with the dust cover showing, and that is usually enough to quote from. We do pick up and deliver inside about twenty-five miles for a flat fee. Current lead time is six to eight weeks from the day the fabric arrives, and we tell you a real date rather than a hopeful one.
Towns we cover: Liberty, Kearney, Smithville, Excelsior Springs, Gladstone, North Kansas City, Pleasant Valley, Claycomo, Parkville, Riverside, Platte City, Richmond, Lawson, Holt, Independence and the rest of Clay, Platte and Ray.