Twelve stools, one night, same bases
Bar stool seats come off at the plate and go back on the bases you already own. It is the cheapest seat in the room to recover and the one that looks worst when it is not.
The base is the expensive part, and it stays
Replacing a stool means buying a whole stool. On a custom bar the column, the footring and the finish were specified to match the room, and the one part that has actually worn out is a pad held on with four screws.
Bar stool reupholstery keeps everything that still works. The seat is recovered, the foam rebuilt if it has gone, and the mechanism checked while it is apart — which is the only moment anyone can see it.
What you have decides the price
Simplest
One flat panel, pulled and stapled. The cheapest seat in any bar.
Corners to turn
Four corners folded by hand. Marginally slower, same material.
Front edge takes it all
No back to share the load. Edge roll almost always needs rebuilding.
Mechanism checked
Pad off the plate, swivel and footring fixings retightened as standard.
Two panels
Seat and back separately, with a join that has to fall at the frame.
Most labour
Outside back as well as inside. Roughly double a plain pad.
Same job, shorter
Priced identically. Height changes nothing about the seat.
Set by hand
Trim is removed and reset one at a time. Adds time, not material.
Off the plate, back on the base
Four screws under the seat, pad off, old cover stripped, foam checked, new cover pulled and stapled, pad back on the same base. Nothing is cut, drilled or replaced that did not need it.
Twelve pads is one night. Larger runs go in sections so the bar never loses its whole counter at once.
Most bar stool reupholstery in New Jersey is booked in the quiet months — January through March, and again in September — when a counter can lose a night without losing a weekend.
What we look at while it is apart
Cracks and splits
A split pan telegraphs through any new cover. Replaced or reinforced before recovering.
Goes before the cushion
The front edge carries the weight. Rebuilt, or the new cover bags out inside a season.
Retightened
The rock people complain about is usually here, not in the cover.
Cheap and forgotten
Worn glides scar your floor. Replaced while the stool is already upside down.
Tightened, not replaced
Loose columns are a fixings problem nine times out of ten.
Where shoes land
The seat wears through directly above the ring. First place to check on any stool.
Profile kept
Foam cut to the original crown, so the run still looks like a set.
Why stools are worth doing as a run
The visit costs more than the seat. One stool and twelve stools are the same trip, the same setup and the same material order, so the per-seat price falls sharply with the count.
It is also the only way a bar top looks right. Four new seats among eight tired ones reads worse than twelve tired ones, because now there is a comparison sitting next to it.
Against buying stools it is not close — a recovered seat is a fraction of a new stool, and you keep the base that matches your bar. That is the whole economic case for bar stool reupholstery, and it holds whether you have six stools or sixty.
Photograph one seat and count the rest. That is enough for a per-seat and a run price, with two or three cover options against what is already in the room.
Across New Jersey, after close
Hoboken and Jersey City through to Asbury Park and Red Bank, and the whole corridor between.
Before you book
Do the stools leave the bar?
Only if you want them to. Pads come off at the plate and go back on the same bases the same night.
How many in one night?
About twelve plain pads. High-back and nailhead stools are slower, roughly half that.
Can you keep our bases?
That is the point of the job. Columns, footrings and finishes stay; only the seat is new.
Will new seats match the ones we did before?
Sampled against the stools already on the bar rather than a book.
Is the foam replaced?
Where it has gone. The edge roll is rebuilt as standard — it fails long before the cushion.
One stool or the whole run?
One is fine. But the visit is the cost, so a run is far better value and looks better afterwards.
Could a repair do instead?
If a single seat is split or burnt, yes — see repair. If the colour has gone across the run, restoration.
We will price the whole bar
Per-seat and run pricing, cover options sampled against your room, and a night that does not cost you a service.
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