Compare labour, fabric, foam, collection and the turnaround before you pay a deposit. A free request for upholstery and reupholstery in Kimberley goes to an upholsterer serving Kimberley and nearby areas of Northern Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Upholstery and Reupholstery in Kimberley
Looking for upholsterers in Kimberley? Say what the piece is, how many seats or chairs, whether you want new foam and a new cover, and whether you have your own fabric. Add a photo, your suburb in Kimberley, and ask upholsterers in Northern Cape to quote collection and delivery.
Want to know more first? Our upholstery and reupholstery guide covers the materials, the work involved and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Kimberley
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.
Kimberley: the homes, the climate and the workshops
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.
The requests we see from Kimberley usually come from:
- Homeowners and tenants: a tired lounge suite, a family armchair, dining chairs or a headboard given a new cover
- Restaurants, hotels, guesthouses and lodges: guesthouse lounge chairs, lodge couches and bar stools recovered between busy seasons
- Offices and businesses: reception couches, waiting room chairs and boardroom seats recovered in a hard-wearing fabric
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.
Upholstery and Reupholstery usually suits couches, chairs, headboards and antiques. The job: strip, repair the frame, new foam and fabric. For homeowners and tenants, the biggest group here, that usually means a tired lounge suite, a family armchair, dining chairs or a headboard given a new cover. 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.