Upholstery Guides & Stories | Eclectic Boogaloo Journal

Time to talk courses of course

Oct 15, 2024

All about our Upholstery Courses, of course.

Upholstery tools including a webbing stretcher, hammer, scissors and tack removers arranged on a black mat.

Adulting

Dec 31, 2023

The year of the adult (mostly).

Jen smiling behind a Juki industrial sewing machine in the upholstery workshop.

Supplies of the Trade

Mar 13, 2023

A run-down of (mostly) traditional upholstery supplies

Upholstery fillings, twine, webbing, fabric and foam arranged on a dark work surface.

Your fabric journey

Feb 27, 2023

avigate through the fabric mine-field

Bird-and-foliage patterned upholstery fabrics in mustard yellow and dark blue beneath fabric rolls.

Tools of the Trade

Aug 1, 2022

An extension of our hands

Upholstery hand tools, tacks and needles arranged on a hessian-covered seat pad.

Crazy silly busy

Jun 28, 2021

A year of ups & downs

Three carved wooden dining chairs showing different stages of traditional seat upholstery.

Embrace the Circular Economy

Nov 16, 2020

Our chapter of this story is not the first, but more importantly, it is not the last.

Stack of vintage wooden dining chairs with mustard-yellow seats and backrests against a dark blue workshop wall.

Interwoven Expression

Nov 5, 2020

The collaboration that start it all

Interwoven Expression armchairs displayed on a platform beneath studio lights on the set of The Block 2020.

As seen on TV

Nov 3, 2020

Tradie-Ladies

Jen and Kerri seated beside their Interwoven Expression chairs on the set of The Block 2020 upholstery challenge.

Life is a mosh pit

Oct 31, 2020

Towards COVID normal

Blue Eclectic Boogaloo Interiors sandwich-board sign outside the brick upholstery workshop.

Love & humility

Oct 16, 2020

Towards normal

Upholstery twine, scissors, a tack hammer, needles and tacks arranged on a hessian-covered chair seat.

The Passion Project "Coco"

Sep 24, 2020

Introducing “Coco”, a modern take on a classic

Bird-of-paradise flower in a purple vase, with the restored Coco desk chair softly blurred behind it.

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