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Chairs, Seats & Small Pieces — We Fix What Is Broken
You found something good — a walnut-frame lounge chair from an estate sale off Burnet Road, a teak-arm accent chair rescued from a Hyde Park bungalow, a side chair handed down through a Travis Heights family. The lines are right and the fabric or leather still has life in it, but the seat has gone soft, a joint has loosened, or a frame rail has split. That is a repair, not a reupholstery. Weathersby Guild specializes in upholstery repair and leather repair on chairs, seats, and small pieces: we diagnose the actual problem and fix it without tearing the piece down to the frame.
We specialize in chairs, seats, and small upholstered pieces — not full sofas or sectionals. For larger pieces, we’re glad to refer you to a dedicated sofa workroom. Most of Austin’s best chairs do not need recovering — they need the broken thing inside them fixed: re-glued joints, replaced webbing, spliced hardwood rails, rebuilt seats, hand-sewn seams, leather repair. Keeping a quality mid-century chair original is almost always better than re-covering it. Every repair runs through our San Antonio workshop, with free pickup and delivery up I-35.
A sunken chair seat might be collapsed foam, failed webbing, or a loose frame — three different fixes. We find the actual cause before we quote, so you pay to solve the real problem and not to replace what was never wrong. That is the difference between repair and demolition.
A mid-century chair loses character when it is re-covered. Where the original fabric is still sound, we work the structure from underneath — re-gluing joints, splicing the hardwood frame, replacing webbing — and leave the period-correct cover and tack lines exactly as the maker left them.
Our workshop is about 80 miles south on Marbach Lane in San Antonio. We collect your piece from anywhere in the Austin area free of charge, do the repair under controlled shop conditions, and deliver it back — so a heavy chair never rides down I-35 in a borrowed truck.
Send photos of the damage and the full piece. We tell you what is actually broken — foam, webbing, frame, joint, or seam — and whether a targeted repair solves it or small-piece reupholstery is the smarter call. Every Austin estimate is free and in writing.
We collect the piece from your Austin home and bring it the roughly 80 miles down I-35 to our Marbach Lane workshop at no charge. No wrestling a vintage chair into a rented van, and no risk of new damage in transit.
Cracked rails and split arm posts are spliced with matching kiln-dried hardwood, loose joints re-pegged, and broken legs replicated. Failed webbing is renewed and a sagging seat is rebuilt with high-density foam — most of it from underneath, with the original cover left in place.
Split seams are hand-sewn with curved needles and color-matched waxed thread so the repair disappears into the original stitch line. Collapsed seat foam is replaced with high-density foam and re-wrapped in Dacron, and worn leather is patched and dye-matched on the affected area only.
Every repair is checked under proper light to confirm the structure is sound and any visible work blends in. Then we deliver the piece back to your Austin home — original character intact, ready for the Hyde Park living room or the Lake Travis porch.
Repair is the right call when the structure has failed but the fabric or leather still has life in it — a loose joint, a split rail, a sagging seat, a single torn seam. It keeps a quality Austin chair original and costs a fraction of a full recover. When the cover itself is worn through or you simply want a new look, that is a recover — we handle small-piece reupholstery on chairs and seats, and for anything larger see our reupholstery service or our Austin-specific reupholstery in Austin page. Not sure which one your piece needs? Send photos and we will tell you honestly.
We specialize in chairs, seats, and small upholstered pieces — not full sofas or sectionals. For larger pieces, we're glad to refer you to a dedicated sofa workroom. Our everyday work covers dining chair seats, dining chairs, accent and side chairs, ottomans, and benches — including the walnut- and teak-frame mid-century chairs Austin loves. We re-sew torn seams, rebuild sagging seats, repair loose and broken frames, legs, rails, joints and webbing, and handle leather repair, plus small-piece reupholstery on chairs and seats. Call (210) 251-3019 or email mark@weathersbyguild.com.
If the fabric still looks good and only the structure has failed — a cracked frame rail, a loose joint, sagging webbing — repair is almost always the right call for a quality MCM chair. Recovering an original walnut- or teak-frame chair can erase the very originality that makes it worth owning. We fix the internal problem and leave the period-correct upholstery intact wherever possible. When the cover itself is worn through, small-piece reupholstery on a chair or seat makes more sense, and we will tell you so honestly. Call (210) 251-3019 to talk it through.
Our workshop sits on Marbach Lane in San Antonio, roughly 80 miles south of Austin down I-35, and we offer free pickup and delivery on Austin repair jobs. We collect the piece from your Hyde Park bungalow, Tarrytown home, or Lake Travis house, do the work at the shop, and bring it back finished — so you never have to load a chair or ottoman into your own vehicle. To schedule a pickup window, call (210) 251-3019 or email mark@weathersbyguild.com.
Usually yes. On a solid hardwood chair frame we re-glue loose joints, re-peg rails, replace failed webbing, and rebuild a sagging seat with high-density foam — most of which lives underneath the visible upholstery and can be accessed without a full recover. Cracked rails and split arm posts are spliced with matching kiln-dried hardwood and broken legs replicated. The original fabric and tack lines stay where they are. Send photos to mark@weathersbyguild.com and we will tell you what is reachable without disturbing the cover.
Send a few photos — a close-up of the damage plus the full piece — to mark@weathersbyguild.com, or call (210) 251-3019. We give every Austin client a free written estimate before any work begins, and we will tell you plainly whether a targeted repair solves it or whether small-piece reupholstery is the smarter choice. No verbal-only quotes and no surprise charges.
Austin homeowners and collectors choose Weathersby Guild for the same reasons our reviews keep landing at 4.8 stars: we diagnose the real problem before we quote, we repair the structure rather than tear good pieces down, and every estimate is free and in writing before any work begins.
Do not assume that sagging chair or split seam means it is time for a new one. Send a few photos of the damage and we will put together a free, honest estimate — and tell you whether a targeted repair solves it. Reach Mark directly at (210) 251-3019 or mark@weathersbyguild.com, and we will arrange free pickup from your Austin home.
We proudly serve San Antonio, Austin, and surrounding communities across Central Texas.