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Kelly's Upholstery Kelly's Upholstery is a well established owner operated business since 1987. Kelly's Upholstery are craft upholsterers, not manufacturing upholsterers.

We recover furniture from antiques to contemporary pieces. We are trained in replacing coil springs, horsehair and flax stuffing through to modern foams and fillers. Our motto is to do the best job, give great service and to use the best products available for our customers.

This weeks beautiful Victorian dining chair demonstrates how a lovely fabric can update a piece of furniture. The chair ...
21/10/2026

This weeks beautiful Victorian dining chair demonstrates how a lovely fabric can update a piece of furniture. The chair has been handed down the generations of my customers’ family and was owned by her great aunt previously. It’s quite a brave move putting a bright fabric like this on it, but I think it looks beautiful.

These two early 20th century lounge chairs were made by James Chapman-Taylor who was an architect and was also into maki...
14/10/2026

These two early 20th century lounge chairs were made by James Chapman-Taylor who was an architect and was also into making arts and crafts furniture. His furniture is very collectible. This popular Warwick fabric goes well with that craft theme. We replaced the foam and tetron in the cushions. Nicky did all the sewing on this job, she has great sewing skills. She's a great asset to our business. 😍

There were 6x of these oak ladder-back dining chairs - 2x carvers and 4x diners. They had old cane wicker seats which we...
07/10/2026

There were 6x of these oak ladder-back dining chairs - 2x carvers and 4x diners. They had old cane wicker seats which were falling apart. Rose has recovered them with my guidance. She cleaned the frames and used our liquid wax on them, which restored the woodwork. With new padding and this hard wearing velvet fabric from Warwick Fabric we now have a very happy customer.

02/09/2026

We’re taking a small break from Facebook over September. We look forward to showing you some more of our completed upholstery jobs in October. The response from FB this year has been really amazing, with so many lovely comments and new people following us, thank you all so much 😍

These 1960’s Unit chairs were originally made to be used as single chairs or pushed together like this 2 seater sofa. Qu...
26/08/2026

These 1960’s Unit chairs were originally made to be used as single chairs or pushed together like this 2 seater sofa. Quite often they were sold with a center chair with no arms to make the unit into a 3 seater sofa. We’ve recovered these in a gold self-stripe Warwick fabric and the woodwork was repolished by Mike Jacques.

Our customer loved their old chair enough to want to get it done again in green leather, so we gave it a new lease of li...
19/08/2026

Our customer loved their old chair enough to want to get it done again in green leather, so we gave it a new lease of life. We pretty much replaced every bit of foam and webbing. Gabby taught Rose how to do the chair nailing – there are 7 meters on this chair. The photo shows them nailing the outside back together.

I love it when we can take a chair and change it so much that it barely looks like the original piece. Gabby completely ...
12/08/2026

I love it when we can take a chair and change it so much that it barely looks like the original piece. Gabby completely rebuilt this small occasional chair. What a transformation!

This 1930’s/40’s lounge chair is part of a 3 piece lounge suite we have recovered. The top cover looked very old, so I w...
05/08/2026

This 1930’s/40’s lounge chair is part of a 3 piece lounge suite we have recovered. The top cover looked very old, so I was surprised when we found another one underneath – which looked in better condition😃They knew how to build good frames back then, it was still in great condition; but everything else needed to be replaced. The navy blue and white Warwick fabric we used is a fairly new range but very popular. We found a plain blue fabric to use for the piping, which I think has worked really well. Another big pattern matching job.

Our customer made the base of this stool and they found this beautiful floral fabric in Auckland. I cut and sewed the fa...
29/07/2026

Our customer made the base of this stool and they found this beautiful floral fabric in Auckland. I cut and sewed the fabric, Gabby did the bench work and put it all together with some lovely matching. It looks quite stunning.

For a number of years now I’ve been hosting morning tea once a month at home. It’s a get together of some older upholste...
22/07/2026

For a number of years now I’ve been hosting morning tea once a month at home. It’s a get together of some older upholstery and motor trimming guys, some that are still working in the trade around town, friends and some customers. There are even two fabric reps who come when they’re in town. Three of the guys are in their 80’s and I'm not sure how many would be in their 70’s. Last week we had 17 here for morning tea. I ran out of chairs and cups😲 It's great for the girls to chat with some of the older guys and hear a bit about their history in the trade. It's become quite a social catch up.

Address

397 College Street, Hokowhitu
Palmerston North
4410

Telephone

+6463570680

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