As a kid who grew up in Toronto with the parents who had a secondhand antique store, there was often a need to get stuff reupholstered. I think my parents probably went through 30 or 40 different upholsterers in their time of 45 years of having a shop but around 1980 they discovered the Silva upholstery and it came as a recommendation I believe from Mary Margaret, O'Hara and Catherine O'Hara's mother to my father for this little shop on Dupont close to Dufferin , you don't see it from the street it's an industrial building so over the years he is reupholstered so far from the 1860s for me twice reupholstered a bench reupholstered a shade lounge reupholstered an armchair, reupholstered a pair of chairs reupholstered 45 Ottomans, his work, a second and then at one point, I thought I'm gonna see if somebody's a little cheaper and I found a little cheaper place like $80 cheaper. The finished product was terrible. The quality of the materials that they use the foam for the nails the gimp that anyway it is terrible. I thought it's not worth saving $80 for something that's only gonna last a year with the quality of the goods that they put in. I just picked up another item.(clearly an illness for me.) in my goal of becoming the house of Ottoman, but not a store but if I opened one, I could probably sell an ottoman into a person in a day for a year and then be like OK. I better find some more and all of the Ottomans I get fully redone. He has brand new frames if someone wants to go in and have a sofa made custom in Toronto by a guy who knows how to do it that's where I'd go, but if you're saving an heirloom or saving a great piece of furniture because anything made made in the last 20 years, most of it is garbage disposable furniture saving a piece of well-made hardwood framed furnishings is for those who don't want to waste their money and he's definitely not the most expensive guy in town so I think that he does the best job of any upholstery that I have tried. One of my parents have tried.! read more