Homes & venues · all of Melbourne

Dining chair reupholstery
& chair recovery

Dylberry Design recovers and reupholsters dining chairs across Melbourne, from a single treasured chair to a full set at home, or volumes of dining chairs for cafes and restaurants. New foam and your choice of fabric, leather or vinyl, drop-in seats or fully upholstered chairs. Send a photo for a free quote.

Key points

Last updated: July 2026

A worn dining chair rarely needs replacing. New foam and a fresh cover brings it back to better than new, whether it is a family set at home or every chair in a busy restaurant.

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What we do

Homes and venues

Drop-in seats

The quickest, most affordable option, new foam and cover on the removable seat pad.

Full chair recovers

Fully upholstered dining and carver chairs recovered back and seat.

Full sets

Whole dining sets matched, so they look uniform when they go back together.

Cafe & restaurant volumes

Batches of venue dining chairs recovered in hard-wearing commercial materials.

Why choose us

Better than new

More commercial seating

Related services

We build and recover every kind of commercial seating across Melbourne.

Good to know

Common questions

How much fabric do I need to reupholster my dining chairs?

It depends on the chair, since a simple drop-in seat uses very little while a fully covered chair with a padded back needs a good deal more per chair. If you tell us the chair style and how many you have, we can advise on fabric quantity as part of your quote.

Can you reupholster just the seat pads if the frames are fine?

Yes, drop-in seat pads are one of the most common and cost-effective jobs we do, and they can transform a dining set without touching the timber. Fresh fabric and, where needed, high-resilience foam make the chairs feel new again.

Is it cheaper to reupholster a set of six chairs than do them one at a time?

Doing a set together is usually more efficient, since the setup and fabric are shared across all the chairs. We price the set on its scope and materials and will give you one clear figure.

What is the most hard-wearing fabric for dining chairs?

Dining chairs benefit from a durable, easy-to-clean fabric because they cope with meals, spills and daily use, so a tighter weave or a performance fabric tends to last best. We will point you to options suited to how your household uses the table.

Can you fix wobbly dining chairs while you reupholster them?

Yes, reupholstery is the perfect time to reglue loose joints and steady a wobbly frame so the chair is sound as well as good-looking. We check the structure of every chair as part of the job.

Good to know

Common questions

How much does it cost to reupholster a dining chair?

It depends on the chair and the fabric, a simple drop-in seat is the most affordable and a fully upholstered chair costs more. Send a photo and we will give you a per-chair price and turnaround, no obligation.

Can you do just one chair, or do I need the whole set?

Either. We happily recover a single chair, and we also do full sets and cafe or restaurant volumes.

What is a drop-in seat?

It is the removable padded seat pad that lifts out of the chair frame. Recovering these is the quickest and cheapest option, we renew the foam and staple on your chosen fabric.

Can you match all the chairs in a set?

Yes, we recover the whole set in the same fabric so they look uniform, and match carvers to dining chairs where the set has both.

Do you pick up and deliver?

Yes, pickup and delivery across Melbourne by arrangement, or drop them to our Eltham workshop.

How quickly can dining chairs be done?

Drop in seats, the kind that lift straight out of the frame, can often be turned around same or next day if you give us a bit of notice. Chairs with fixed upholstered seats or upholstered backs take longer because there is stripping and rebuilding involved rather than just recovering a pad. A full set of six or eight is scheduled as one job so they come back matched. As always, if the fabric has to come in on order, that is what sets the start date rather than our bench.

Before you enquire

What sets the price on a chair

Dining chairs look like the simple job and they often are not. A drop in seat with a sound frame is quick. A chair that needs the joints re-glued, the webbing replaced and the seat rebuilt before a cover goes near it is a different piece of work, and you cannot tell which one you have from a photo of the top.

Fabric is the other half of it. On most chairs the material alone comes to more than people expected to pay for the finished chair, and that is before any labour. Patterned fabric that has to be matched across a set uses more again.

We are not the cheapest and we do not try to be. If that is what you are after we will say so early rather than waste your time. If you have a set worth keeping, send a photo of one chair and one of the underside, and we will tell you honestly what it needs.

Get a quote on your furniture

Send a photo or the dimensions of your booths, banquettes or venue seating and we'll come back with a rough price and turnaround.

We reply within 24 hours. No obligation, no pressure.

Got a piece that needs work?

Send a photo of your piece and we'll come back with a straight quote, no obligation, no pressure.

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