Rainbow Upholstery

Tom did an outstanding job on two pieces of furniture that are family heirlooms, an 8ft bench made by my uncle, and a victorian chair made by my grandfather. On the 8ft bench, Tom redid the webbing, built up the material above the webbing, managed to recovered it with the original leather, repaired the six the legs and, even touched up the area where our puppy chewed it. He also shipped two leather chair cushions, from a chair that my grandfather made, to NY to be remade and destuffed with down. The job was done about a week faster than he promised. It wasn’t cheap, but the quality of the workmanship is old-​world good. Tom is an old-​fashioned craftsman, and is very pleasant and professional. I come from a family of upholsterers, and Tom seems to know his stuff. I highly recommend him.

Tom did a very nice job fixing up an old armchair. It is much firmer; you don’t sink into it like you did before.

First, let me say that Tom is very nice. I didn’t have a bad experience, just not as good as I’d hoped for the price. I brought Rainbow a large antique armchair that I’ve had reupholstered many times. This time, I wanted the frame restored, which I feel Tom did a good job with, and new upholstery. There was some lack of communication and organization with regard to deadlines and appointments, but everything got done. The problems I’ve experienced since having the chair done are:
Upholstery not holding up. For the fabric type, the material may have been stretched too tight in places. It began to shred and created holes near seams the first year. Second, the formerly fat, super-​comfy cushion was too thin, which resulted in its being too low when sitting in the chair, and not very comfortable. It, too, has frayed, come apart near seams and has to be re-​done again. Third, the tailored cover I requested and paid an additional 550. for never fit, was ill-​made and quite a disappointment. This was an expensive job and I feel the upholstery results should have been more high quality.

I’d been lugging around a chair for years with the intent to fix it up. I received estimates from many locations in the DC Metro Area. I decided to try Rainbow because it sounded like Tom really new his stuff and the pricing was much better.
I am very happy with the work my chair received (see before/​after shot posted). The poor thing had loose springs, needed a new bottom and was a heinous yellow velvet mess… now I have a gorgeous chair with a modern flair!

A friend gave me two chairs since he was remodeling his house, the chairs looked old smelled old and really beat up, I called Rainbow Upholstery Tom came to my house looked at the chairs and decided to take the job, I don’t know anything about chairs or upholstery work, Tom explained to me some of these things.
it took about a week before Tom brought back the chairs, and I was … NEW AGAIN, Thank you Tom, I will be always coming back and telling people about your work.