Here I am, relaxing after recovering this sleeper sofa - at the client's house.

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One of my favorite classes in junior high was home economics. While other kids were goofing around in class, I was learning how to sew.

In 1991, I inherited the family couch. The couch was fine, but the fabric had to go. My seamstress skills and love of fabric were quickly put to use, beginning my hobby and ultimately career, as an upholsterer.

Ten years later, I studied at the Traditional Upholstery Workshop in Ceredigion, Wales. While British, Welsh and Irish students were working on their Queen Anne and Edwardian era chairs, I was working on my Nixon and Kennedy era chairs. You'll find them on the Home and Dumpster Dives pages.

For the past three years, I have upholstered part-time and have decided it's time to leave the corporate world and upholster full-time because it's never to late to become what you might have been.

kate@upholsterthis.com