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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.

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
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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Our First Workshop: The Highlights
On Saturday the 13th of December we hosted our first upholstery workshop...
What an amazing day.
I'm still buzzing from our first workshop. All of the months of planning and rescheduling through these challenging few months have been worth…

Workshops: Covid Safety Measurements
We have put the following measures in place to make the workshops Covid-19 safe. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us on:
Phone number: 01260 609021
Email: hello@shupholstery.co.uk
The safety of our clients and staff are…

Everything you need to know about our upcoming upholstery workshop
We are getting very excited to be running our first workshop on 5th December (fingers crossed following Lockdown updates!!). With further dates planned in January/Feb/March spaces are filling up fast.
We wanted to share more details with you…

Top three tips on how to choose for your upholstery project
Are you thinking about having a go at your first upholstery project, or maybe you’ve already had a go and thinking about choosing your next one. I wanted to share my top three tips on how to choose your project.

Where do you get your interior inspiration from?
Where do you get inspiration for your interior style in your home? Lifestyle magazines, pinterest, or ‘influencers’ on social media showing you ideas from inside their own homes?

Do you love to learn new skills? Natasha does, find out why
Do you love being in your home? Do you want your home to look like no one else’s?
Do you want your home to have your style and vision, and to be filled with furniture that you’ve either learnt to make or put your own stamp on.

Can you Open Your Mind to New Ideas, Challenge your thoughts and Spark Conversation?
It is already 5 months into 2022… Where has this year gone already?
Normally by now, a lot of us have either stuck by our new year's resolutions or they disappeared just around February time? I am happy to say this year I have definitely (so far) stuck to my resolutions and attempted to make time for myself.

Exciting new project for one of our favourite pubs!
We've recently had the pleasure of completing a special project for the Brownlow Inn. It was a privilege to be able to work with them as it is one of our favourite places to eat as a family. We have been going there for family celebratory meals for years including our engagement and pre-wedding night, so as you can imagine, it holds lots of special memories. So we couldn't be more proud to see some of our furniture taking pride of place in their bar eating area.

Making a Mark in the Chapel’s History
Having taken on the chapel in 2016, it wasn’t just a physical renovation we were undertaking, we were also becoming part of the history of this beautiful building that originated in the village in 1892.