Bulk commercial reupholstery, done in-house.
Two in-house reupholsterers, full access to commercial fabric, leather, vinyl, and medical textile lines, and the workflow to handle anything from a 5-chair conference room to a 500-chair fleet refresh. New fabric, refreshed components, restored furniture — typically at a fraction of replacement cost.
First-party shop, not a referral
Schedule control
The reupholsterers work on the shop’s own schedule, not a third-party queue. When a board meeting or move date is fixed, batches are sequenced around it.
QC accountability
If the seam puckers or the foam feels wrong, the answer is one conversation away — not a vendor escalation. Rework happens fast because the work happens here.
Whole-project handling
For projects that combine reupholstery with installation, decommission, or storage, Austin’s team can coordinate the full lifecycle through a single point of contact on a single bill of work.
What gets reupholstered at scale
Bulk programs cover the full spectrum of commercial seating. Mixed orders are common — conference chairs and lounge pieces in the same project.
Task & Executive Chairs
Steelcase Leap, Gesture, Think; Herman Miller Embody, Sayl; Haworth Zody, Fern; SitOnIt Wit, Focus. Seat and back re-cover, foam replacement (quoted as a line item), mechanism check, plus new arm pads or casters as quoted when needed and available. Note: chairs with mesh seats or backs (Aeron, Cosm, Mirra) cannot be reupholstered — once the mesh is gone, it’s gone.
Conference & Side Chair Sets
Coordinate across 8–20+ matching chairs so the room reads as a complete set. Common with side chairs, training chairs, and stack chairs being refreshed before a board meeting or client visit.
Lounge, Lobby & Soft Seating
Sofas, lounge chairs, ottomans, modular collaborative seating. Full strip, foam replacement quoted as needed, new fabric, frame inspection. Restored to client-facing standards.
Panel System Fabric
Strip and re-wrap cubicle panels with fresh commercial textile. Perfect for matching new-hire stations to existing panels, or refreshing an entire floor without replacing the system.
Booths & Banquettes
Break room, café, and common-area booth reupholstery. Commercial vinyl and crypton options rated for high-use food-service environments.
Healthcare & Cleanable Seating
Reupholstery with bleach-cleanable, antimicrobial, and fluid-barrier textiles for healthcare, senior living, behavioral health, and dental practices. Crypton, Maharam Source, Designtex Brisa.
Access to every major commercial fabric line
Commercial-grade woven textiles, performance vinyls, leather, healthcare-rated antimicrobials, and designer-spec COM. If a contract fabric house carries it, it can be specified.
Commercial-Grade Woven
Standard for office task and conference seating. 100K+ Wyzenbeek double rubs. Wide pattern, color, and texture libraries from Maharam, Designtex, Knoll Textiles, Carnegie, Camira.
Leather & Top Grain
Executive seating, lobby furniture, conference rooms. Genuine top-grain and bonded leather options, color-matched across multi-piece orders.
Commercial Vinyl & Faux Leather
Healthcare, hospitality, food service, and any environment that needs to be wiped down between uses. Naugahyde, Brisa, Spradling.
Healthcare & Antimicrobial
Crypton, Maharam Source, fluid-barrier silicone textiles for clinical and senior-living environments. Bleach-cleanable, easy-clean, no harboring seams.
Designer & COM (Customer's Own Material)
Specify any contract textile from any major fabric house — Maharam, Designtex, Knoll, Carnegie, Arc-Com, Momentum, Camira, Gabriel. The shop handles the CFA process and yardage calculations.
Reception & Soft-Seating Specialty
Mohair, bouclé, and texture-forward upholstery for lobbies, executive suites, and design-forward spaces. Specified by interior designers and procurement teams together.
From pickup to redelivery
Six phases, with photo documentation and mechanism testing built in. The full process for a stock-fabric task chair runs 2–3 weeks from pickup to return.
Pickup & Intake
A crew picks up at your location. Each piece is tagged with a work order number, photographed for condition baseline, and routed to the shop.
Disassembly & Mechanism Inspection
Old fabric removed. Tilt, gas cylinder, lumbar, and arm mechanisms tested. Any failed components flagged for replacement before fabric is committed.
Foam Evaluation & Replacement
When foam replacement is on the quote, high-resilience commercial foam (2.5–4.0 lb density) replaces compressed seat and back foam. Foam is always a quoted line item, never assumed free. If it wasn’t quoted up front but inspection shows it’s needed, a change order is issued before the work proceeds.
Fabric Cutting & Sewing
Cut to model-specific patterns, sewn with commercial bonded thread and lock-stitch seams. Pattern matching maintained across multi-piece orders.
Upholstery & Reassembly
New fabric applied, mechanisms reassembled with any replacement parts. Each chair adjusted and tested through full range of motion.
QC & Return Delivery
Inspection against intake photos. Wrapped for transport. Delivered back to your location with a walkthrough so you can flag any issues immediately.
Batch planning for 50+ chair programs
Pulling 200 chairs out of an active office for two weeks isn’t realistic. Phased batching solves it: chairs cycle through in batches of 15–25 at a time so the team always has seating.
How batching works
- → Batch size: 15–25 chairs per cycle
- → Cycle time: 2–3 weeks per batch
- → Handoff: Next batch picked up when previous returns
- → Loaner option: Loaner chairs may be offered on larger programs when available — ask in the inquiry
- → 200-chair example: 8–10 batches over 16–24 weeks, minimal disruption
Pilot before bulk
For orders of 50+, a 1–2 chair pilot is strongly recommended before committing the full order. The pilot validates:
- → Fabric color in person (monitors lie)
- → Foam firmness preference
- → Workmanship and seam quality
- → Approval before ordering yardage
Who runs commercial reupholstery programs
Facilities Managers
Refreshing a floor without the capex of new chairs. Reupholstery at $200–$400 vs. $800–$1,200 new is the easy budget conversation.
Interior Designers
Specifying a fabric refresh as part of a renovation, brand refresh, or design-forward client engagement. COM from any major contract textile house is supported, with CFA handled on the shop side.
Other Furniture Dealerships
A discreet white-label option for reupholstery work you’ve sold. You keep the customer relationship; the work happens behind the scenes.
Project Managers
Reupholstery as a TI-budget line item. Cleaner accounting than a capital-equipment refresh.
C-Suite & Owners
The math: refresh 200 chairs at $250 each ($50K) versus replace at $1,000 each ($200K). Same look, fraction of the cost, no disposal problem.
Healthcare & Senior Living Operators
Bleach-cleanable, antimicrobial, fluid-barrier upholstery refresh on patient and resident furniture. Compliance-grade textiles, properly applied.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers on minimums, lead time, fabric, and warranty.
What is the minimum order?
Five chairs (or equivalent volume of soft seating, panels, or booths). Commercial reupholstery is a setup-heavy process; the per-unit economics work above the 5-piece threshold. Below that, a single-piece local upholsterer is usually the better fit.
How long does it take?
Stock-fabric task chairs: 2–3 weeks. COM (Customer's Own Material) task chairs: 4–6 weeks. Panel fabric: 3–5 weeks. Lounge seating: 4–6 weeks. Larger orders run on a batch schedule — typically 15–25 chairs per batch, 2–3 weeks per batch, with the next batch picked up when the previous returns. Important caveat: when fabric is being procured on your behalf (rather than supplied as COM), total lead time is bounded by the textile manufacturer’s stock and ship time. Some commercial fabrics ship in days; others run 4–8 weeks made-to-order. Fabric availability is confirmed before the project clock starts.
Do you accept Customer's Own Material (COM)?
Yes. The in-house shop works with all major contract textile houses — Maharam, Designtex, Knoll Textiles, Carnegie, Camira, Arc-Com, Momentum, Gabriel. The CFA (Cutting For Approval) process and yardage calculations can be handled on your behalf so you get the right amount in a single dye lot.
What does it cost?
Typical ranges: task chairs $150–$400 each, conference chairs $100–$250, lounge pieces $400–$1,200, panel fabric $30–$80 per panel. Pricing varies with fabric grade, foam replacement, and quantity. Larger orders see meaningful per-unit reductions. Get a quote with your specifics in 24–48 hours.
How does foam replacement work — is it included?
Foam is its own line on the quote. If it’s included, new high-resilience commercial foam (2.5–4.0 lb density) goes in during the same visit. If foam wasn’t part of the original scope but turns out to be needed, you’ll see a change order before any extra work happens — nothing surprises you mid-project. Same goes for cylinders, arm pads, and casters: either quoted up front or flagged as adds during the work.
What's your warranty?
Standard warranty covers fabric and labor for 12 months on workmanship issues. Foam carries the manufacturer warranty (typically 5–10 years on commercial-grade HR foam). Specifics are in the work order.
Do you handle pickup and delivery?
Yes — included on local Phoenix-metro orders, quoted by mileage and crew time for outside the metro. For nationwide programs, freight is coordinated with your facilities team or routed via commercial blanket-wrap carriers.
Who is this service designed for?
Facilities managers refreshing a floor, furniture dealerships overflowing on reupholstery work, project managers on a tenant-improvement budget, designers specifying a refresh, and C-suite owners deciding whether to refurbish vs. replace. The 5+ chair minimum makes this a true commercial program, not a one-off.
Get a reupholstery quote.
Share what you have and how many. Quotes come back within 24–48 hours with pricing, fabric recommendations, and a realistic lead time.
Helpful to include:
- → Item type (task, conference, lounge, etc.)
- → Current brand and model (check labels under seats)
- → Quantity (5 minimum)
- → Fabric direction (commercial-grade, leather, healthcare, COM)
- → Project deadline if any
- → Photos of current chairs
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Last updated: April 2026