The Upholstery Lady

10/02/2026

Cute little cylinder stool, bench seat cushion and table runner set. How gorgeous is this colour combination 😍. Working for the first time with on this gorgeous project. Sarah is just getting going in her new business, give her a follow if you fancy some interiors inspo. Best of luck Sarah 🙌🏼

13/01/2026

10 years ago to the date! Sidney and Bertie were 2, and Oscar was 5. I was attending Upholstery night school. We got into a routine with it. A couple of times a week, I’d leave work, pick the boys up from afterschool club and nursery, nip home for snacks and drive back into town to start my class. Usually I’d sit in the car with the boys waiting for Mark to finish work and get there. He’d park his car next to mine, get into my car with the boys and leave me to have an evening of learning and complete escape from the pressures of everyday life. On this occasion, Mark was running late and the boys came into class with me. I’m so pleased I captured this gorgeous pictures of the twins on the cutting table. What journey it’s been. For any Mum out there struggling to keep up with the full time job and dreaming of a career that you can work around your young family, please don’t let that dream fade. It’s hard when your kids are little, financial pressures are high and it’s hard to see a way out. The universe constantly shifts and moves around. Hopefully life will begin to ease for you and I do hope that like me you get to turn your passion into a career, and make a bloody good go of it.

Lots of love, Leanne xx

10/12/2025

Hello 👋🏼 remember me!! I’ve been busy filming something very exciting 🎥 Sealed 👄’s for now but hopefully I’ll be able to share some updates with you in the new year.

Always grateful for this crazy upholstery journey, and the opportunities that have come my way 😃.

09/09/2025

04/09/2025

Earlier this summer Vinny and I created this gorgeous seating area for 😍 Holly went subtlety bold with a gorgeous printed velvet from , I love this design so much so that I’m including it in a project that I’m working on in my own home. Another great seating build, getting lots of bottoms around a busy family table, makes me so happy 🥰

27/08/2025

Floor to ceiling headboard install with earlier on this year. Gorgeous embroidered was the fabric of choice, upholstered on site as it is ginormous!! Stunning joinery, gorgeous colours, what a bedroom 🩷

18/07/2025

Well this one turned out nice 😍 bespoke fitted seating with under seat storage. Built by Vinny, upholstered by me.

Lovely combo of fabrics, wipeable seats with a gorgeous boucle soft back. Ready to get plenty of bums on seats around the centre of a busy family home ☺️

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21/05/2025

Great things happen when you collaborate!! This weekend saw our second workshop with the WI, and what a workshop it was! Myself and worked alongside 7 incredible women to help them create their very own and completely unique cylinder stool. New skills learned, lots of fun had and the highest sense of achievement felt, as our students left the workshop full of pride with their new piece of furniture in hand. So very proud of what everyone achieved. Our workshops are mobile, so if you are a member of the WI or are arranging a team building day - we can cater for up to 8 people in a upholstery workshop, and have a variety of products available to create, get in touch!

17/03/2025

A few snippets from Friday’s workshop 🤩. Incredibly proud as always of my brilliant students, everyone gave it their all and created the most wonderful deep buttoned footstool. Fabrics were supplied by and the whole day was captured by Nick and his team. I can’t wait to share more!!

Huge thanks to the for being such great hosts, and of course to my amazing students, teaching new skills and sharing snippets of our lives along the way. I feel very lucky to call this work!

28/01/2025

WI workshops!! This weekend we kicked off our first workshop of our WI Upholstery tour! Bringing our cylinder stool workshop to small groups within the WI community. We are delighted to be mobile with our workshops, so if you or someone you know is a member of the WI and is looking for something different to do as a group activity, please get in touch 😃.

Roe Green WI were amazing this weekend, it’s always a pleasure to spend the day with such a brilliant bunch, hearing snippets of their lives and discussing their interior conundrums. As always, I’m extremely proud of everyone’s stools, smug smiles all round for the group photo and rightly so. Well done everyone 👏🏼👏🏼

Huge thanks to my wingwomen and and Helena for baking delicious goodies and helping out on the day - couldn’t have done it without you all 🙌🏼🥰

23/01/2025

Cute seat cushion in leaving the workshop and fitting perfectly into this well thought out hallway design by A brilliant use of space in this high traffic area in a family home. Looks to me like it’s always been there 😍