We offer a unique boutique upholstery service in Leeds, bringing fresh and exciting furniture into your life and home.
Outside the workshop at Weetwood Studios, Far Headingley
Emily grew up in the Lake District, where her school had a fantastic art textiles department. She spent every spare moment exploring and experimenting with fabrics, textures and form.
Studying for a Fine Art degree at Edinburgh College of Art gave her a passion for constructed textiles, and she specialised in tapestry. Emily then completed a City and Guilds Level 3 qualification in Upholstery at Burnley College of Construction, and alongside this she was an apprentice with the established traditional craftsman Steven Ball in Cumbria.
Emily is a Leeds-based designer and upholsterer with a keen eye for design, colours and textures, and above all she is passionate about restoring quality furniture.
Our team works in a beautiful Grade II listed studio on Weetwood Lane in Far Headingley, where we spend our days restoring and revamping. We look forward to hearing from you!
Restoring and re-upholstering furniture in and around Yorkshire. We offer furniture collection and delivery.
Combined visions from our customers and the expertise of our professional team.
When we come into your home we listen to your vision first and foremost, and we love to find out how we can help you with your upholstery needs.
Our homes are our sanctuaries: the most important places for us to feel calm, safe, cosy, relaxed and inspired. They give us a place to recoup our energies, entertain our friends and families, and be the art gallery of our own worlds.
We believe that communication is key. We invite you to come to our workshop and see how we work. We always appreciate input from our customers, and we want you to be part of the design process.
We take your old piece of furniture away and deliver it back to you two weeks later, completely transformed.
A selection of work we have completed for some of our wonderful customers. We hope it gives you a better idea of what we can do for you, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word comes from the Middle English upholder, a tradesman who held up his goods.
Traditional upholstery uses materials like coil springs, animal hair, coir, straw and hay, hessians, linen scrims and wadding, with mainly traditional hand sewn techniques, and we always use hammer and tacks. Traditional upholstery often takes much longer than contemporary upholstery, and there can be a price difference between the two techniques.
Modern upholstery can involve cutting edge techniques and an expansive range of elements, including rubber foam, elastic webs and synthetic Dacron. The elements come in layers, allowing for a faster application and flexible shapes.
Choose from a large fabric selection from more than 24 reputable companies, and all of our fabrics meet fire retardant and industrial rub test standards.
Here are some of the fabric suppliers we work with. You can contact them directly with specific fabric codes and they will send samples to help you decide.
We offer a “Bring your own Project” day class on the last Saturday of each month, held in the workshop at Weetwood Studios. We teach you how to re-upholster your own project and equip you with skills so that you can continue with other projects at home.
Bring a project that is achievable in one day: for example a dining chair, a footstool, a piano stool or a small child’s chair. We provide all the tools, equipment and materials you will need. You just need to bring your project along with the fabric you wish to use.
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We are elated at the work done by Emily on our 24 year old Ercol 3 piece suite. It has been reupholstered to perfection. Her skills are outstanding. Her help, advice & suggestions were exemplary & have created a masterpiece.
Emily and the team upholstered a very tired chair in our office, we were amazed by the results. She was great to communicate with…punctual and the work itself is top notch. We would be loathed to buy anything new seeing the results of this chair. Absolutely stunning. Emily sent us these photos from the workshop. Communication was wonderful
Emily made a beautiful seat cushion for my porch. I am delighted with it. It fits perfectly and I received 2 complimentary cushions Emily made with left over fabric.
But on top of that she helped adapt my spaniels dog bed that didn’t have a removable cushion! She worked this out, cut and sewed it while I was in the workshop and as you can see Tilly is very pleased with the outcome ❤️
Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend. A lovely and very professional lady to deal with .
I'm absolutely thrilled with the incredible work done by Emily Farncombe Upholstery! They brought my vintage 1980s Habitat sofa back to life, and it looks better than ever. From new webbing to top-notch foam and stunning new bottle green leather Futura leather in Lancashire, they spared no detail. Emily's craftsmanship is top-class - she clearly cares deeply about her work and the customer's vision. They worked with me to match the leather perfectly to our interior, and the result is just stunning. If you need upholstery work done, look no further! 😊"
We recently had an ottoman upholstered by Emily which previously belonged to a family member who had sadly passed. We couldn’t be happier with the result and were really impressed by the attention to detail and precision. The ottoman now looks beautiful and what was previously hidden away is now in our living room.
As a lovely extra touch, she also made a couple of cushions from the leftover fabric, which really tied everything together and added something personal and thoughtful to the job.
Overall, a brilliant service from start to finish. We’d happily recommend her to anyone looking for quality upholstery work with a personal, skilled approach.
If you have a project in mind or some furniture that needs TLC, please complete the form below. We’d love it if you could have photos of your furniture ready to send us by email once we have responded to your enquiry.
We will respond to you as quickly as possible with the amount of fabric needed and a labour cost.