Found a GREAT Upholstery Company!

[new2man]

For anyone looking to reupholster or refinish furniture, we found Markham Restoration to be the best company in the metroplex. I had an old dining room set that needed to refinished and reupholstered. The owner worked with us personally on fabric selection and actually LISTENED to our budget constraints, and then came in under budget and ahead of schedule! For less than we would have paid at a cheap chain store, we now have a beautiful custom piece of furniture in time for the holidays! We also purchased an antique claw foot settee that had been reupholstered and had a chair custom upholstered for my husband's office.
I searched for recommendations on FOL before we chose a company but couldn't find any, so I wanted to share. It's so often that we get mediocre or horrible service from companies these days so it's really nice when a local company goes above and beyond to provide quality work and great customer service!

Markham Restoration and Furniture Service
2616 Irving Blvd. Dallas 75207
214-634-7776
http://www.markhamco.com
custserv@markhamco.com

[Golfer Girl]

Thanks. I have a chair I need done, so I will call them when I am ready.

I love the office chair they have on their site. Sure beats what you would get at Staples.

[melmax]

That is wonderful to know. I redid a chair years ago and I would love to have someone redo it and fit it better.

[RUBY-LARUE]

Thanks for posting this information. Ever since Bang's Designs went away, I have been searching for an upholstery company to recover my love seat.
This has helped me out so much, you just don't know... Or maybe you do since you were in the same boat.

Thanks Again,
Ruby

[decor8]

Just FYI....Rebecca that use to own Bang's is now at the Fabric Yard. She has done a lot of work for me as well as my cleints and she is amazing! I feel so bad for her that she lost her business (Bang's). She told me what happened and it is really such a shame that someone would take advantage of her. She took a huge order for a hotel chain, made everything (we are talking about hundreds of bedspreads and curtains) and then the guy disappeared. So she was stuck with all of this stuff and had not taken any other orders because she was busy working on the hotel's stuff. How horrible is that!!!! Anyways, just wanted to let the people that use to use Bang's where you can find Rebecca!!

On another note.....Glad you found another great company, they are very hard to find!!

[hockeymom]

Originally Posted by decor8

Just FYI....Rebecca that use to own Bang's is now at the Fabric Yard. She has done a lot of work for me as well as my cleints and she is amazing! I feel so bad for her that she lost her business (Bang's). She told me what happened and it is really such a shame that someone would take advantage of her. She took a huge order for a hotel chain, made everything (we are talking about hundreds of bedspreads and curtains) and then the guy disappeared. So she was stuck with all of this stuff and had not taken any other orders because she was busy working on the hotel's stuff. How horrible is that!!!! Anyways, just wanted to let the people that use to use Bang's where you can find Rebecca!!

On another note.....Glad you found another great company, they are very hard to find!!

Oh, my gosh...that is horrible. I am so sorry to hear about Rebecca's situation...and hate that she lost her business b/c of it. I'll keep both of these numbers in my file...thanks!

[new2man]

I'm finally getting around to posting some pics that Markham Restoration did for us. (*Note - the "spots" on the couch in one of the pics is the sun coming through the shades - I'm a really bad photographer.) They made the bolster pillows with the same fabric as the dining room chairs to pull the two rooms together. We love it all! I wish I had "before" pics of the table - the finish was peeling off and it was badly chipped, and now it looks like a brand new piece of furniture.

They're also making us some more custom pillows and a table runner - I'll post those pics as well when it's finished.

[Zillah]

Your table and chairs are beautiful! Would you mind sharing a ballpark figure for the upholstery work on the chairs? I have an antique french table and chairs coming in January and the upholstry is a really bad 1970's gold and white fabric. It's awful. The table and chairs will be refinished, they will just need upholstery. I stopped at the antique place by Horchow Finale in Plano and they said it would be around $300 per chair. That seems very high, but I don't have anything to compare it to. The guy my antique dealer is recommending won't make a guess until the chairs are here. I need to get myself past the sticker shock before those ugly chairs show up and scare me out of my own house!!!

[new2man]

Originally Posted by Zillah

Your table and chairs are beautiful! Would you mind sharing a ballpark figure for the upholstery work on the chairs? I have an antique french table and chairs coming in January and the upholstry is a really bad 1970's gold and white fabric. It's awful. The table and chairs will be refinished, they will just need upholstery. I stopped at the antique place by Horchow Finale in Plano and they said it would be around $300 per chair. That seems very high, but I don't have anything to compare it to. The guy my antique dealer is recommending won't make a guess until the chairs are here. I need to get myself past the sticker shock before those ugly chairs show up and scare me out of my own house!!!

Thank you so much - we couldn't be happier! WOW - $300 per chair? That's crazy. I think they charged us $100/chair. That may be slightly lower than their usual cost since we had quite a bit of work done, but it would still be way, way lower than that. The other thing I liked about them was that they don't use any contractors, it's all full time employees, so it was the same guy working on all of our furniture. Do you already have fabric? I found a great place if you still need that as well.