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New furniture or recover the original?

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Jim

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Location
North Carolina
RV Year
2016
RV Make
Newmar
RV Model
London Aire 4551
RV Length
45
Chassis
Freightliner
Engine
Cummins / I6 Diesel Pusher 600HP / 1,950 ft-lbs
TOW/TOAD
2016 Jeep Rubicon
Fulltimer
No
Got some wear/tear I'm trying to get rid of and wondering which would be more cost effective. Recovering the original or just buying new furniture?
 
If you don’t mind a little side trip to Dubuque, these people do a wonderful job of reupholstering rv’s, especially Newmar’s:


They did our entire coach in a day & 1/2 in REAL Ultra Leather for a very reasonable price.
They can also send you replacement covers and you can have someone cover yours or do it yourself.
 
We did a mix. Our pleather was peeling on the Driver and passenger seats, so we had those recovered. I took them to the shop and they did both for about $1200 in some comfortable, long wearing cloth.
The dinette and sleeper sofa were replaced because they were pretty uncomfortable anyway.
 
Ours are starting to peel also. It didn't look that bad until having the coach retiled, now it's embarrassing.
 
reupholstered=custom, one of a kind.
Recovered =same old.
Replaced = definitely same old.
 
It depends on the furniture. When it came to the couch and booth, I replaced. The captions chairs we reupholstered ourselves. We bought remanence and cost about $30 per seat.
 
If you have Flexsteel furniture, Lisa Bauer is an excellent choice for reupholstering the old. If it’s Villa, you’ll have to deal with the other options.
 
Im having my front seats recovered/rebuilt/upgraded at around $3500. For me this is a good fix but all the other upholstery looks almost good as new. I’d rather do that than take a chance on new/different seats since I like the contours and functions of my current OE seats.
 
Since our peeling Villa brand was also very uncomfortable, we decided on replacing it with furniture from Bradd and Hall. We went with the Lambright Luxe theatre seating, Lambright Harrison jackknife sofa and Sawyer slim captains chairs. What an amazing change in comfort.
 
Im having my front seats recovered/rebuilt/upgraded at around $3500. For me this is a good fix but all the other upholstery looks almost good as new. I’d rather do that than take a chance on new/different seats since I like the contours and functions of my current OE seats.
Rich like yours it's just our front seats that are in bad shape. If you don't mind, who is doing the work for you?
 
Here’s the dinette and sleeper replacement
 

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Rich like yours it's just our front seats that are in bad shape. If you don't mind, who is doing the work for you?
The bid I got was from Country Side interiors in Junction City Oregon. They were highly recommended but I haven't see their work yet. I’ll be up that way this summer getting a windshield and if I like what I see I’ll finalize details on the seats. I just looked at the estimate - it’s actually $3380. Here’s the contact:
Countryside Interiors
541-998-6541
 
The bid I got was from Country Side interiors in Junction City Oregon. They were highly recommended but I haven't see their work yet. I’ll be up that way this summer getting a windshield and if I like what I see I’ll finalize details on the seats. I just looked at the estimate - it’s actually $3380. Here’s the contact:
Countryside Interiors
541-998-6541
Thanks for the info. I got a price for just recovering the front seats from Newmar $4000.00. I am still shopping.
 
The bid I got was from Country Side interiors in Junction City Oregon. They were highly recommended but I haven't see their work yet. I’ll be up that way this summer getting a windshield and if I like what I see I’ll finalize details on the seats. I just looked at the estimate - it’s actually $3380. Here’s the contact:
Countryside Interiors
541-998-6541
We had work on our previous coach done by Country Side. Very good folks to work with at that time. Not sure if the same owners/management are still there.
 

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