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Furniture Restoration in Kimberley
Looking for furniture restoration in Kimberley? Describe the piece and its timber if you know it, what is wrong (loose joints, veneer, woodworm, worn finish, cane or riempie seat) and whether it needs new upholstery. Send photos and ask restorers in Kimberley and Northern Cape to quote.
The main furniture restoration page explains the options, materials and costs in more detail.
Kimberley notes on furniture reupholstery
Old houses in Belgravia and Beaconsfield hold antique chairs with horsehair or coir stuffing, sprung seats and tacked covers, and the right upholsterer will rebuild them the traditional way. Dining sets with ball and claw feet often need regluing and refinishing as well. In Hadison Park the job is a modern lounge suite or a headboard, and in Galeshewe and Roodepan home upholsterers recover couches with new foam.
Upholstery work in Kimberley
Kimberley's diamond rush left behind a town of old houses, and their furniture is the most interesting upholstery work for many kilometres. Victorian and Edwardian homes in Belgravia and Beaconsfield, with corrugated iron roofs and wide stoeps, still hold horsehair-stuffed armchairs, button-back chaises and dining sets on ball and claw feet that need careful restoration rather than a quick recover. Hadison Park and the newer suburbs bring lounge suites and headboards, Galeshewe and Roodepan have home upholsterers recovering couches, and farms out towards Ritchie and Barkly West send bakkie seats and stoep benches. Workshops are few, so fabric and foam often come from Bloemfontein or Johannesburg. The dry heat and dust are hard on leather and fabric.
Typical furniture restoration requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners and tenants: a family heirloom chair, an imbuia dining set or a riempie bench restored and recovered
- Churches, schools and halls: church pews, museum pieces and council chamber chairs restored and reupholstered
- Car, bakkie and taxi owners: timber trim and seats from a classic car or an old ox wagon bench restored
Local tips for Kimberley
Common here: antique armchairs and chaises, lounge suites, bakkie seats and stoep benches. Ask each workshop about this: for antiques, ask whether the upholsterer keeps the original stuffing where possible. Where they work from: workshops in the town centre and industrial area, home upholsterers in Galeshewe.
Furniture Restoration usually suits antiques, Cape Dutch, cane and riempie. The job: strip, reglue, refinish, reseat, recover. For homeowners and tenants, the biggest group here, that usually means a family heirloom chair, an imbuia dining set or a riempie bench restored and recovered. On the climate side: hot, dry summers and dust crack leather and fade fabric; cold winter nights.
Service area: Kimberley and surrounds
Upholsterers and suppliers on our network work in Kimberley and surrounding areas, including Galeshewe, Roodepan, Ritchie, Barkly West, Hadison Park, Beaconsfield. Give the suburb and say whether the pieces must be collected, so the collection fee can be quoted honestly.