Saville's Custom Upholstered Furniture

Saville's Custom Upholstered Furniture builds upholstered furniture to order in Hurricane, serving the greater St. George area alongside its upholstery work. Building a piece from nothing is a different trade from recovering one, and it survives in a small market for a reason that has to do with rooms rather than with taste.

The wider picture

Manufactured furniture comes in a limited set of sizes because tooling and inventory economics require it. Rooms do not. A long narrow living space, a low window that a standard sofa back would cross, a corner that wants a specific angle, a family that needs a longer seat or a shallower one - each is ordinary, and each is served badly by the nearest standard size. A maker starts from the dimensions the room requires and builds the frame to them, which is the substantive argument for custom work and a more practical one than appearance.

The process runs frame first: hardwood milled and joined, corner-blocked and glued, then the suspension - hand-tied coils or heavy sinuous spring - then burlap, padding and the shaping layers that give the piece its profile. Patterning follows, cutting the covering to templates taken from the frame itself, and this is where a maker's hand shows: matching a pattern across a back and its cushions, aligning a repeat along a long seat, keeping the grain of a fabric consistent through arms and skirt. A workshop that builds new pieces is generally the right place to take a difficult repair as well, because the person who assembles frames from bare lumber is the person best placed to rebuild one that has broken.

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Nearby: Mad Moose Rentals and Tours, Western Fence Company.