Reupholstering was definitely a necessity.
My son was trying to find furniture for his first apartment.
He was going to every yard sale he could find, and looking in all discount warehouses.
He wanted to get furniture that was cheap and user friendly. When he brought home this old sofa, I knew I was giving it a look of distaste. My son said that all it needed was a little TLC. I thought someone should tear it apart and put it in the garbage. At the very least, the sofa needed reupholstering. I knew that if he took it to a professional reupholsterer, it would cost more than if he bought a brand new sofa. He told me they had a chair just like the sofa at the goodwill center. I was sure they did, but I didn’t know if I could get both pieces reupholstered before his apartment was ready to move into. He took me to the goodwill center, and the chair wasn’t as bad as the sofa, but almost as bad. It was only $15, and he bought it. We took the sofa and chair back to the house. I began tearing the chair apart first. The padding needed to be replaced, and the springs needed to be tightened. My husband and I spent the entire weekend reupholstering the chair, but it was going to take several weeks to get the sofa reupholstered. I wished I had kept my mouth shut when I muttered I could probably reupholster them for him. One little utterance ended up being a promise to have it done in less than a month.