Upholstery Hats

Upholstery is a trade where the surprises live inside the furniture. Upholsterer Fiona Edmeades has found an heirloom diamond earring, an empty 1930s cigarette packet, old coins and countless bobby pins in the crevices of chairs, and when she strips a chair she often finds several layers of old upholstery underneath. Couches are famous for the same reason: roommates found over $40,000 in cash in a $20 thrift-store couch and returned it for a $1,000 reward, and a Michigan man found $43,170 in a ReStore couch ottoman. The staples are the other half of the trade, and one Houzz first-timer called pulling what seemed like thousands of them the worst part of a chair rescue. These upholstery hats take the trade's side of that. The $41 and a tooth is an invented find, a bit rather than a news item, and STAPLES PULLED: 1 MILLION leans into the dread instead of the pride. REUPHOLSTER DON'T REPLACE is the creed behind the cost, quality and landfill arguments for saving a good frame, and REUPHOLSTERED > IKEA says it shorter. UPHOLSTERER and UPHOLSTERY are the plain badges, and the creed and the couch-find line each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Choose one for the upholsterer in the shop, the curbside-chair rescuer, or anyone with a staple gun and a free weekend.