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Ever wondered how to turn this simple wooden frame into a stylish Stool?

Want to know what lies beneath the fabric? Do you look at this stool frame and think I wouldn't even know how to start making this! If you joined us on an upholstery workshop, we would teach you everything you needed to know - as well…

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Rocking Chair Transformations – Giving An Old Piece Of Furniture A New Lease Of Life

Furniture can hold memories for lots of different reasons. A rocking chair passed down through generations or you may remember sitting in one during your childhood with a parent or grandparent, for instance.

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Exciting News – Launch Of New Website And Upholstery Courses Coming Soon

We have some exciting news to share with you. In the coming weeks we will be relaunching our website with a new improved look, as well as some new features including a furniture quote builder for custom made furniture, two new upholstery workshops, and the ability to book our workshops as a group if you wanted to come with friends and family, a work event or hen party.

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Design Ideas For Yours Industrial Dining Chairs

Are you struggling to find high-quality dining chairs that fits in your home, and beautifully compliments your decor? Picking the right chair for your dining room can be difficult when you can’t find the perfect style, colour or size. From our workshop in Scholar Green, Cheshire we can tailor make the perfect industrial design dining chair to fit your room by finding out what will work best amongst your interiors and compliment them.

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Struggling with storage? Fed up with boring mass produced products? Why not learn to make your own at an upholstery workshop….

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Dining Chair Reupholstery – Making New From Old

When considering a dining room make over, it is so important that you take into consideration working with what you have already got. If your dining chairs look a bit worn in or simply don’t match a colour scheme anymore- there are ways to…

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Creating The Perfect Dining Table For Your Home From Our Cheshire Workshop

Are You Looking For A Table That Makes An Impact On Your Visitors But Not On The Environment? Do You Need A Dining Table That Is Both Stylish And Practical? We Can Help.

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Choosing Sustainable Fabrics

Why do we use sustainable fabrics? Here at Semper Hopkins, sustainability is a big part of our company values and choosing materials which reflect in that matter to us. We use reclaimed materials, repurpose old furniture and use a range of hand-picked…

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New Plans for 2021

Its our 3rd birthday. March 2021 marks our 3 rd year since we rebranded the business and opened the workshop at Kent Green Chapel. It will be 5 years in June since the business was established as an Ltd company in 2016. If you had asked me even…

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Are You Thinking Of Starting Upholstery As A Hobby? How To Create The Perfect Workspace At Home.

The truth is, I started my upholstery training years ago for several reasons; one of these was because it was a release from my stressful job. The second more important reason was because we were mid-way through a huge renovation project on…

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Creating something new from old – Dining Chairs Makeover

In today’s world, it is all too easy to go out and buy a set of dining chairs if your current one is broken or damaged, or is no longer fashionable. Are you thinking about replacing your existing dining chairs with something new because the…

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Are you thinking of starting Upholstery as a hobby. What tools do you need to get you started?

The truth is, I started on my upholstery training years ago because it was a release from my stressful job. It gave me a purpose to learn from others and up my skillset while taking my mind off the challenging day job. I’m not a person to…

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July has been another busy one! Our 5 top highlights from this month

July has been a fun and busy month. Read the highlights to find out what we’ve learned and been up to.

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Does your home represent you? Discover the secret to how to plan your home interiors

Your home interior should match your personality making your house feel like your home. Susie recently joined us on the introduction to interior design workshop and she shares her experience and how it helped her learn new skills and feel confident to tackle her own projects.

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Celebrate Our 8th Business Birthday with an Exclusive Offer

As we fastly approach the second half of 2024 I wanted to take a moment to pause and celebrate a significant milestone which will be our 8th business anniversary on 30th June.

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April News from the workshop – Living the life you dream of!

In January 2021, I completed a vision workshop with Michala Leyland. She taught me how to visualise what I want to achieve in the near future regarding Semper Hopkins Upholstery & Interiors and how I can balance my time without burning out! Michala has changed my perspective on how to use my time wisely and it is something I am so glad I have done! 2022 is the year I will be focusing on myself more…

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2022 The year of doing the things I love, and the year I turn 40….

Where has 2022 gone? We are already at the end of March. This year marks a big milestone birthday for me. I turn 40 on the 21st April, very luck to share the same birthday as the Queen. At the beginning of the year I had considered writing up 40 things I wanted to do when I turn 40, but that seemed like a daunting task to think of 40 things and it takes precious time, so here I am just going along with it and doing it. My motto for 2022 was to do more things that make me happy, and doing less planning is one of them!

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January News from the Workshop

How has the first month of 2022 gone for you? It feels like Christmas is an age ago now and the past month has flown by! January is usually the month I use to plan exciting things for the year ahead. I’ve been busy doing that as well as spinning several other plates!

Ever wondered how to turn this simple wooden frame into a stylish Stool?

Rocking Chair Transformations – Giving An Old Piece Of Furniture A New Lease Of Life

Exciting News – Launch Of New Website And Upholstery Courses Coming Soon

Design Ideas For Yours Industrial Dining Chairs

Struggling with storage? Fed up with boring mass produced products? Why not learn to make your own at an upholstery workshop….

Dining Chair Reupholstery – Making New From Old

Creating The Perfect Dining Table For Your Home From Our Cheshire Workshop

Choosing Sustainable Fabrics

New Plans for 2021

Are You Thinking Of Starting Upholstery As A Hobby? How To Create The Perfect Workspace At Home.

Creating something new from old – Dining Chairs Makeover

Are you thinking of starting Upholstery as a hobby. What tools do you need to get you started?

July has been another busy one! Our 5 top highlights from this month

Does your home represent you? Discover the secret to how to plan your home interiors

Celebrate Our 8th Business Birthday with an Exclusive Offer

April News from the workshop – Living the life you dream of!

2022 The year of doing the things I love, and the year I turn 40….

January News from the Workshop

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