Commercial & trade · all of Melbourne
Dylberry Design reupholsters, repairs and builds booth seating for Melbourne cafes, restaurants, pubs and hotels. We recover backs and bases over existing frames, replace worn foam and split seams, or make new booths to your drawings, in commercial-grade fabric or wipe-clean vinyl. Send a photo for a free quote.
Key points
Last updated: July 2026
Booths take a beating, seams split, foam flattens, vinyl scuffs. We recover and repair them so they look sharp again without the cost of ripping out the fit-out.
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What we do
Fresh covers over your existing booth frames, in fabric or wipe-clean vinyl.
Split seams, flattened foam, loose panels and worn edges made good.
Cafe and restaurant booths built to your drawings and finished properly.
Commercial vinyls that shrug off spills and wipe down in a busy venue.
Why the trade uses us
More commercial seating
We build and recover every kind of commercial seating across Melbourne.
Rebuild or replace
A booth is bolted to the floor and built into the room, so the question in front of a venue is not really which seating to buy. It is whether the run has to come out at all. Search for booth seating in Melbourne and a lot of what comes back is manufacturers, firms that build new booths and deliver them into a room. We build new booths to drawings as well, so that is a real option here. The difference worth knowing is that we also do the other one, taking the fixed booths a venue already has and rebuilding and recovering them in place.
That matters because a booth is joinery as much as furniture. The bases are fixed down, the ends are often scribed to the wall, skirting and wall lining are cut to the booth line, and the floor finish was rarely laid underneath. Power, data or a service duct can sit in the back of the run. Pull the booths out and the seating trade is only the last of several, after a carpenter, a floor layer and a painter.
Rebuilding and recovering avoids that whole sequence. The carcass stays fixed where it is, so nothing comes off the walls, no floor needs patching at the plinth line, no services get disconnected and no repaint follows us out the door. The work is seating work only, and the room goes back to being the room. Timing is set at quote stage, and what we need from the room is access, not demolition.
Rebuilding is not a cover thrown over tired seating. Backs and bases come apart, the frame is checked and repaired, and the seat is put back the way it was built, with 9-way hand-tied springs, serpentine or webbing as the piece calls for. Foam is new Dunlop HR35 high resilience, 200 firm along the run where people slide in and out and 165 medium where a back needs to give. Fire grade is standard on commercial seating, not an upgrade line on the quote. Covers are commercial grade Austex vinyl that wipes down, or quality Australian and imported fabrics.
Sometimes the run should come out, and that is worth hearing at the quote rather than after the fabric is ordered. If the room is being reconfigured, if the floor is being replaced, or if a carpenter is already booked in, the demolition is happening with or without us, and new booths built to drawings make more sense than recovering a run that is about to move. Where none of that is happening, the carcass decides it. A sound one is worth rebuilding over, and one that is past repair is not.
Good to know
Yes, if only a section is worn or a seam has split we can repair just that, though when the vinyl or fabric is aging across the booth a full recover usually looks better and lasts longer.
Commercial-grade vinyl is the toughest and easiest to wipe down for food and drink venues; commercial fabrics work well where you want a softer look. We help you pick the right one for the traffic.
Yes, we build new cafe and restaurant booths to your drawings, and recover or repair existing ones when a venue is due for a refresh.
We stage the work around your hours and take it in sections, so you can usually keep serving while we work.
All of Melbourne, from our Eltham workshop.
By the booth, and it comes down to two things. How much of the structure needs attention before anything is recovered, and how much material the shape takes. Buttoned or channelled backs use more labour and more metreage than a plain pad, and a curved booth end takes more setting out than a straight one. Photos of the full booth plus a close up of the worst corner get us to an accurate written quote, free, usually inside 24 hours.
We work through a room in sections so you keep trading, and we can come in before or after service where that suits the venue better. A single booth is quick once the material is on hand. A full room is scheduled in stages across a set number of visits. The thing that moves the date most is vinyl or fabric lead time, so the sooner the material is locked in the sooner we start.
Fixed booth frames stay where they are and we work on site. Anything loose that lifts out, seat pads, squabs and removable backs, comes back to the workshop where the bench work is better done, then we refit it. Short local runs where one person can manage the load we generally collect and deliver ourselves at no extra cost. Bigger loads go on a carrier and the cost is written into the quote up front.
We are an upholsterer, and on booths that is the more useful trade to be. A fixed booth is half joinery, so the hard part is working on a carcass that cannot leave the room, which is upholstery work rather than manufacturing. We do build new booths to drawings, so you can get either here. If your run is sound, rebuilding it in place is usually the better job, and that is what we will recommend.
More than the seating. The bases are fixed down and the ends are often scribed to the wall, so skirting, wall lining and sometimes tiling are cut at the booth line, and the floor finish usually stops at the plinth. Any power or data in the back has to come out and go back in. Recovering in place leaves all of that alone.
Send a photo or the dimensions of your booths, banquettes or venue seating and we'll come back with a rough price and turnaround.
Send us the drawings or details and we'll come back with a straight quote, no clout needed, just a great job.
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