A supplier quotes better when it knows the sizes, the quantities, the grade and whether you will collect or need a courier. Send one request with the details and we pass it to upholsterers working in Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Cushion Covers Made to Size in Johannesburg
Need cushion covers in Johannesburg? Say how many, the sizes in centimetres, scatter, seat or box cushions, and whether you want piping, zips or new inners. Mention if you are supplying the fabric or want samples, so workshops in Gauteng can quote.
New to this? Read the cushion covers guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Johannesburg
The fabric shops around the CBD sell upholstery fabric off the roll, along with piping cord, zips by the metre, webbing and staples, and are a stop for DIYers recovering seat pads. Foam is cut to size by suppliers in the southern industrial areas, often while you wait. Upholstery cleaning is booked most before December and after winter, when couches in busy family homes need extraction cleaning, and machine hire suits flats with a single couch.
Upholstery work in Johannesburg
Upholstery in Johannesburg runs on two old trades that never left the inner city. Fabric and trimming shops still line the streets around the CBD, and motor trimmers work out of the older industrial pockets of Booysens, Selby and City Deep, close to the taxi ranks and the bakkie traffic heading south. Around them sit a century of suburbs: Parktown and Houghton houses with wingbacks and Chesterfields worth keeping, art deco flats in Killarney and Yeoville with compact lounge suites, and family homes in Soweto where home workshops recover couches in the yard. Distances and traffic matter here, so ask an upholsterer near you whether collection by bakkie is included. Dry Highveld winters crack neglected leather, so condition it before it splits.
Typical cushion covers requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners and tenants: new scatter cushion covers and couch seat covers to refresh a lounge without recovering
- Restaurants, hotels, guesthouses and lodges: matching cushion covers in bulk for guesthouse rooms, lodge lounges and restaurant banquettes
- Offices and businesses: durable covers for reception couch cushions and breakaway room seating
Local tips for Johannesburg
Upholsterers serving Johannesburg mostly work from here: cBD fabric and trimming shops, Booysens and Selby trimmers, Soweto home workshops. The jobs that come up most: lounge suites and wingbacks in older homes, taxi and bakkie seats, leather repairs. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the quote includes collection, delivery and the fabric deposit.
Around Johannesburg the largest group asking is homeowners and tenants, which usually means new scatter cushion covers and couch seat covers to refresh a lounge without recovering. Before you agree to anything: measure the inner, not the old cover. Collection here: workshops collect by bakkie; fabric and foam are bought in the CBD or the south.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to workshops and suppliers that already serve Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention stairs, a narrow door or a big corner couch, because they change how a piece is moved.