Restaurant & Commercial Upholstery
Booths, banquettes, built-ins, bar stools, and dining chairs: built new or rebuilt from the frame up, with the carpentry and the upholstery done by the same hands. Ricardo has built and recovered restaurant, bar, hotel, and theater seating across the DMV.
A banquette built for a library dining room
The video shows a terracotta channel-tufted leather banquette, built to spec and installed in a library dining room.
Booths and banquettes get built to whatever the room calls for: channel-tufted or buttoned backs like this one, in leather or commercial vinyl.
What gets fixed
Cracked vinyl. Split seams. Foam crushed flat by ten years of dinner service. Ricardo rebuilds booths and banquettes from the frame out. Stools, chairs, and benches get the same treatment: new high-density foam, boxed cushions, and double-stitched seams pulled over welt cord.
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He builds the bench itself
Built-in banquettes, corner benches, window seats: when the seating a room needs doesn't exist yet, Ricardo builds it complete, from the frame to the padding to the cover. The carpentry and the upholstery are the same pair of hands, so the bench fits the wall it was measured for.
The curved frame in this photo became the finished bay-window banquette pictured above. Both are the same bench.
Matching new work to the room
New covers get matched to the seating already in place and to your brand colors, so a rebuilt booth sits beside an older one without shouting. A large job can be taken in stages rather than all at once.
Ricardo will give you a straight answer when he sees the piece.
Restaurant-grade materials, in plain terms
Commercial vinyl is rated by "double rubs," the industry's wear test. Heavy-use grades wipe clean, take restaurant cleaners, and don't crack in year two. High-density foam holds its shape through all-day turnover. Thread and welt cord are matched to the cover, not to the lowest bid.
Who this is for
Ricardo has rebuilt seating for restaurants, bars, and diners, and for hotels and theaters. The same strip-and-rebuild that recovers a diner's booths brings a couch or an antique chair back to life at home. That's furniture and antique work, run through the same shop.
Ricardo also rebuilds boat interiors and car and motorcycle interiors, restores furniture and antiques, and makes shoes to order, or see the full gallery of work.
Start with a photo of your worst booth.
Send us what it is and what it needs, and you'll get a straight answer back.