Katie is an experienced furniture restorer, upholsterer and teacher with 8 years experience teaching craft skills. After completing the City & Guilds Diplomas in Traditional Furniture Making and Upholstery she qualified as a City & Guilds Trainer/Assessor and taught at a City & Guilds training centre in Bristol. She is a qualified Design and Technology teacher with a degree in the History of Art and Design. She now runs a small upholstery business in her home-town, Stone, and teaches locally.
"I've been wanting to try upholstery for a while and this was the perfect introduction. With Katie's guidance I covered two ottoman seat pads in just a few hours and I'm so happy with the results! I learned a lot and I now feel confident to try some basic upholstery projects at home. It was lovely to spend the day in such a relaxed and beautiful location. I would definitely recommend this course and I hope to learn more from Katie in the future."
" This was a really relaxing and fun day. The tutor, Katie was kind caring and fun to be around she helped me to recover two stools no mean feat with arthritic fingers and made the stool bodies sturdy again so I could put the tops on at a later time at home. She shared her knowledge and taught us some skills on recovering a pair of 1970's stools and a Victorian chair. Really good as this was my first foray into upholstery.
They looked amazing and someone even asked me if I was selling them.
Definitely recommend this course. Lovely tutor and fellow students and location was fab.
Give it a go.
Patricia"
Meticulous Restoration responded:
"Thank you so for your lovely review Patricia. Your projects looked fantastic - you have a wonderful eye for colour and did a brilliant job. You really took to upholstering and I'm glad you enjoyed the day. I hope you will use the skills to do more upholstery projects at home. Thanks again, Katie"
"Great upholstery day, lovely sized class, Katie was very personable, knowledgeable and spent time with you and your project, explaining and showing you the different techniques of upholstering. Definite worth attending whatever level your at."
Meticulous Restoration responded:
"Thank you for your lovely review Jo! It is much appreciated. Your chair looked beautiful dressed in its new fabric - especially the contrast of the delicate pattern of yellow linen with the dark legs. You did a fantastic job and it's great to hear that you got so much out of the day. Thanks again, Katie "
"I loved my day at Bisham Hall with Katie. I took along an old dining chair and by the end of the day I had re-coverd the chair seat pad (frim scratch). Katie was lovely and so helpful and kind. Am confident that I will be able to re/cover the other 4 dining chairs. Would like to go back and learn how to repair the cracked leather chair-back at some point. Thank you Katie (and fellow participants) for a very interesting and enjoyable day. "
Meticulous Restoration responded:
"Thank you so much for your review Selma. It was my pleasure to host you in the studio and I’m really glad that you enjoyed the day, and left with the skills you needed to go on and recover your other dining seats. I’d love to show you how to repair the leather in future. Thanks again, Katie "
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