Category: Custom Furniture

A Holiday Guide To Gifting Custom Furniture

Howard’s Upholstery has created this festive holiday guide to help our customers who plan on gifting custom furniture this holiday season.

The holiday season is a time for giving meaningful gifts that show thoughtfulness and care. While gadgets and trendy items come and go, custom furniture is a timeless and heartfelt option that combines functionality, beauty, and personalization. However, gifting custom furniture can also be tricky because people have different aesthetic tastes and furniture needs. Thankfully,… Read more »

Choosing Custom Furniture Colors

Howard’s Upholstery has compiled this guide to help our clients find furniture colors that are right for their next custom order.

Things To Consider When Selecting Custom Furniture Colors Existing Color Scheme When selecting colors for a new piece of custom furniture or upholstery, it’s important to consider the existing color scheme of the room that will house it. What colors would clash with the colors of your floor, wall, ceiling, and existing furniture? What colors… Read more »

Upholstery Fabric Guide

There are many upholstery fabrics and materials available on the market each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Buying custom upholstered furniture has many benefits, including higher quality materials and workmanship, better durability, long-term cost savings, uniqueness, and convenience. However, perhaps the greatest strength that custom furniture has over mass-produced furniture is that it can be crafted to fit your specific needs and tastes. There are many choices you get to make when… Read more »

Signs You Should Repair Your Furniture

Today, the furniture experts at Howard’s Upholstery will walk you through the signs that signal you should repair your furniture.

It is unfortunately a fact of life that furniture gets damaged over time. Unless you keep all of your furniture in a hermetically sealed museum vault, wear and tear will inevitably degrade your furniture over time. You can take steps to extend your furniture’s longevity, like buying high-quality custom pieces and using protective products like… Read more »

Top 4 Custom Bedding Benefits

There are many custom bedding benefits that prove the bedding created by Howard's Upholstery is better than mass-produced bedding.

The average person spends the equivalent of about 26 years sleeping and seven years attempting to sleep during their lifetime. Considering how much time we spend in bed, it makes sense for everyone to invest in high-quality bedding. However, most Americans today tend toward relatively low-quality, mass-produced bedding purchased from major retailers. Thankfully, there is… Read more »

Benefits Of Table Pads: What You Need To Know

If you are interested in acquiring table pads to protect and beautify your dining room table, look no further than the wonderful custom table pads produced by Howard's Upholstery.

Are you worried about ruining your table? You should be. Few joys in this world are more simple and wholesome than gathering around the dining room table with your loved ones to share a meal. It makes sense that many people put a large investment into their dining room table or pass down beloved antique… Read more »

Benefits Of Plastic Slipcovers

Plastic slipcovers are often viewed as a nostalgic throwback and a symbol of a simpler time in American history. Many of us have childhood memories of visiting parents and grandparents and sitting on their cool plastic-adorned couches and chairs. Some, like the Tenement Museum, have even gone as far as describing plastic slipcovers as “a… Read more »

Advantages of Custom Furniture

The advantages of custom furniture over mass produced furniture are numerous and significant.

We live in an age in which mass-produced furniture is the norm in the United States and across the globe. Some people look at this phenomenon and wish there was a better way to furnish their home or commercial property. If you are one of those people I have good news for you. There is… Read more »