For interior designers, decorators & stylists
Dylberry Design is a family upholstery and restoration workshop in Eltham North. We make and re-cover to your spec, in your fabric, to a finish you can put your name on. You keep the client. We stay behind the scenes.
Send a briefCall Dylan, 0425 832 619Where we sit
We are not the cheapest workroom in Melbourne and we are not the most expensive. We sit in the honest middle: the detail and hand-finish of a high-end workroom, priced so the numbers still work on your project. Between the three of us on the floor there is around a hundred years of upholstery, machining and French polishing, and it shows in the corners, the seams and the parts of the job nobody sees until you look for them.
Pattern-matched seams, hand-tied 9-way sprung seats where the piece deserves it, clean rails and tidy undersides. The back of the piece is finished like the front.
Dunlop HR35 foam as standard, 200 firm or 165 medium, with a 10 year foam warranty. Fire-grade foam for commercial specs. Your fabric or ours.
We re-cover over existing frames wherever the bones are good, and back our frame work with a 30 year guarantee. Your client keeps the piece they love.
What we make for the trade
How we work with you
Send a photo and the brief. You get a clear price and a straight lead time you can pass on to your client and keep.
We never market to your client, never hand out a card on your job, never step on the relationship. The finished piece is presented as yours.
Across Melbourne, scheduled around your install dates. One point of contact from quote to hand-back.
Ongoing arrangement for regular referrers so the numbers work cleanly on every job. The easiest start is one piece: send it, judge the finish, decide from there.
Questions designers ask
Yes, most of our trade work is COM. Send the fabric to the workshop or have your supplier deliver direct. We flag quantity and any rub-count or direction concerns before we cut.
Quoted honestly per job and held. Single pieces typically run one to two weeks in the workshop; larger fit-out packages are staged around your program. Rush pieces are sometimes possible, ask.
Yes. Fire-grade foam and commercial-grade coverings on request for hospitality, office and aged-care specs.
The workshop is in Eltham North, and we pick up and deliver across Melbourne, the Yarra Valley, the Mornington Peninsula and the Macedon Ranges.
COL means the designer or client supplies the leather and the workroom supplies the labour, exactly as COM works for fabric. The catch is that leather is sold by the whole hide, around 5 square metres each, with scars, brand marks and thinner belly edges that cannot be cut around on a drawing. Send us the piece dimensions before you buy and we will tell you how many hides to order and which panels take the best cuts. We inspect every hide on arrival and flag any mark before cutting.
A good upholstery specification names the piece, the covering (fabric or leather, colour, width, pattern repeat and rub count), the foam grade, the detailing and the deadline. For us that means: fabric name and quantity or "workroom to advise", direction of pile or pattern, piping or topstitch details, seat firmness (we default to Dunlop HR35 at 200 firm for seating, 165 medium for a softer feel), fire-grade foam if commercial, and the install date. One page is plenty; the photo does the rest.
A cutting list is the sheet every panel of a piece is cut from: inside back, outside back, seat platform, boxing, arms, cushion tops and borders, each with its finished size plus seam allowance and the direction the pattern must run. We build one before any fabric is cut, because it gives the real metreage and shows where a pattern repeat lands on the front. Ask your workroom for it when you supply fabric; it is the difference between enough and 2 metres short.
Trade pricing in upholstery is usually an agreed rate for designers and decorators who bring regular work, in exchange for cleaner briefs and quicker decisions than the public gives a workroom. It is not a discount on a single job. In practice the labour is quoted the same way every time, your fabric arrives direct and the piece is invoiced to you, never your client. We confirm our arrangement with you when we quote; the sensible start is one piece: send a photo, judge the finish, then decide.
Send a photo of something on your current project and we will quote it inside 24 hours, no obligation. See the finish, see how we communicate, then decide if we become your regular workroom.
[email protected]0425 832 619