The Italian physician Maria Montessori recommended that children need the world at eye level, comprised of an environment full of order and beauty with everything having a place, and furniture that is light enough for children to move as they see fit.

Are you looking for a narrowboat upholstery makeover? This autumn, at Needle Rock we’ve upholstered a couple of fabulous narrowboats. Talking with narrowboat owners, it seems it can be difficult to find someone to upholster this type of seating. Custom-made upholstery was made for 'Jack Frost' (see below), and with space at a premium, the comfortable lounge area can now double up as a sleeping area...

You are probably sitting in a chair as you read this - an armchair or perhaps a dining chair, hopefully with some kind of upholstery to make it comfortable.

What is ‘upholstery’? In a nutshell, it is where padding or stuffing is fixed to a hard surface to make it comfortable. People have made cushions to sit on since ancient times, but these were not attached onto the chair until much later. It is only in the last four hundred years that true upholstered furniture has developed, where the paddings are an integral part of the piece. 

As we have said many times before at Needle Rock, we never know what's coming in through the workshop door next. At Needle Rock, one of our unique selling points is we can carry out quite major frame repairs in-house.