Quite simply, The Best in Austin!! I've used Paul's service countless times over the years and always totally satisfied with the results. Very innovative and seems to always find a solution inside or outside the box! Highly recommend! read more

Love Leather Menders !!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeep looks amazing. New leather on the driver seat and cleaned both front seats. Buddy read more

It's not often in this age of corporate America to find a small business that checks all the right boxes, but I've found Leather Menders to be in that rare category. I just had Paul and his crew re-spring the seat in my cherished '59 Jaguar, and as well they repaired two nickel-sized holes in the vinyl upholstery that had rubbed through. Honestly, I had assumed that entire panel would have to be replaced, but Paul assured me he could repair the existing holes. When I returned for the car, I was pleasantly astounded at the results.. I'd defy anyone to even be able to find the location of those original holes. This isn't my first pleasant experience with L. M., and it certainly won't be my last. I can't speak for living room furniture, but I can say that when it comes to anything automotive, Paul, his wife Tammy, and the small crew there know their stuff! As owner of some 12 classic vehicles, I belong to a number of different car marque groups. I can virtually guarantee that a query to any one of my classic car-guy friends about Leather Menders would result in a thumbs up. In addition quality work, Leather Menders ascribes to two other qualities that I find invaluable yet so rare these days: 1) They complete the job within the time frame originally promised 2) The final bill is always exactly what Paul quoted verbally up front.. not the standard bait-and-switch I encounter so frequently at other places. 3) Their prices are extremely reasonable. Thanks Leather Menders! read more

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My 2011 Expedition was in excellent shape for a 12 year old SUV. However my leather front seats, steering wheel and shifter leather was worn. I brought it to Paul, Tammy and team and they did a fantastic job replaced the leather seats and air foam. leather on shifter, and cleaning and re-staining the steering wheel. read more

Our chairs are AMAZING! Tammy went above and beyond and reupholstered our chairs into the most beautiful pieces we have. Highly recommend! read more

Leather Menders - Furniture Reupholstery Near Me - Austin, Texas

Outstanding quality and competitive price. They recently did some work on my Lexus. Amazing results - the seats look brand new, so clean. Very easy to work with. We've taken a few of our cars there over the years. This is the place to go period. read more

I was told about Leather Menders by a staffer at my local auto body shop, Ellis & Salazar in Northwest Austin. I needed a shift boot (the leather cover on a stick shift on my car) replaced, and the bottom track fixed so it would stay in place. Not too many repair shops in town would take on such an odd job, but Leather Menders did, at a fair price with friendly service. Paul and his crew are a local family-owned business and perhaps exemplify the Keep Austin Weird ethic, but they take pride in a job well done and this was certainly the case in my experience. I'd recommend them for anyone looking for quality leather repair work. read more

Awesome place! Brought my recently purchase 1992 Acura Integra in needing drivers seat repaired and interior cleaned up. Wow! I thought the car was black but after cleaning turns out seats were gray. Paul matched the color perfectly and it looks fantastic. Super quick turnaround. On time & on budget. These guys will be my go too for my old cars in the future and will always be on my recommendation list! read more

Paul and his team helped me restore my 91 BMW to incredible condition. They do great work, pricing is fair, and are very helpful when it's not a simple out of box repair. I wouldn't go anywhere else. read more

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True craftsmanship! I found the type of damage to car and apparel leather they can repair to be remarkable. Very reasonable pricing too. Whatever you need repaired, holes, scratches, stains, etc. take it to get an assessment. read more

My dog ate a pen on my leather couch. I tried to fix it and made it worse. The people that sold me the couch basically said tough luck. I could not buy a replacement cushion. I thought the couch was ruined. Saw the good reviews and tied leather menders out. They made the cushion look like new. Don't know how they did it but they are miracle workers. They told me from the pic I sent in what the estimate was and that was the price they charged me. I could not be more happy! read more

Following a recommendation from Finish Line Car Wash in Westlake I took my Lexus SUV to Leather Menders for a quote to repair the interior leather. I wanted it rejuvenated, repair of stains and scratches my dog had left, and to remove a very large stain where tea or coffee had been spilled. The quote Paul gave me was reasonable yet I believed that it would be wishful thinking to hope that even 50% of my list could be achieved. When I picked up my car yesterday I was speechless. The leather looks just as it did when it left the showroom. My car is a 2010 and I plan to sell it. I assure you that the value will be increased by 1k easily. Never did I expect the level of craftsmanship outside of the dealership itself. There are comments below about the time frame promised versus delivered. I say pack your patience. This is not a corporation, it's a family run business. Because I had read the notes below I dropped it off prior to traveling for 10 days. The end product is the goal here and I planned ahead and was rewarded. Paul got a hug and my eternal gratitude. ***I'm not sure why this has me located in San Diego (my daughter attends school there). I'm a long time Austinite.*** read more

Great eye for detail and totally surpassed my anal expectations!!

My couch and chairs were damaged in a move. Now they are like new again and you can't see where the damages were! So thankful I didn't have to get rid of the pieces. He is super friendly and is just so knowledgeable! Will definitely use again if the need arises. read more

Paul, Tammy, and the Craftsmen at "Leather Menders" in Austin, Texas are great. What an art! They really know their stuff. Terrific outcome on the 2008 Volvo XC 90 leather seats! Barry B. read more

Leather Menders - Furniture Reupholstery Near Me - Austin, Texas

Leather Menders was able to give our off-white leather couch a whole new life. The cleaning and repairs are amazing! Will definitely use them again for our leather repairs. read more

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Very nIce people who probably do a great job on leather repairs.... not so much for upholstering my RV furniture. I have to look at it every day and regret spending that $7500. It was a nightmare from beginning to end and by the time they were finished, we already knew from the pics that it was an epic fail. They even admitted that it was and tried to make it look better but the stuff needs to be completely redone. We just picked it up with a sick feeling in our stomachs and decided to get it redone at some point. $7500 down the drain. I could go on and on about the whole debacle but it's hard to be truthful about the service since the people were very nice. read more

I can NOT say enough good things about my experience with Leather Menders! About 2 years ago I had a detailer get overly aggressive on my Acura's leather perforated seats, leaving a huge gash in the passenger side. I'd brought the car to multiple leather upholsterers in Austin but each time felt like I was being treated as if I were stupid ($1000 for front seat panels only, it'd take a week, etc.). Not so with Paul and Tammy at Leather Menders. They treated me very fairly, gave me a reasonable timeline and fair price (both were 100% honored), and gave me a lot of advice on future care, as well as just being very friendly in general. They truly behaved as a family-run business and it is much appreciated! Bonus: Paul cleaned up my seats and fixed a leather snag on my door, neither of which was expected. Truly exceptional service and handiwork!! read more

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My Tahoe has 85 000 miles on it but my leather seat looked and felt like it was closer to double that figure. My auto dealer, that has sold me every GMC car I have ever owned, told me that the only place to go for help, was Leather Menders. And very good advice it was. The staff was professional and very efficient. The price fair and the work timely. The finished product is a front seat that is as good as new. I highly recommend this firm. You will not be disappointed. John Oliver read more

Paul repaired my sofa. My 3 year old doodled on my nice couch and Paul cleaned and covered up the pen marks. I can't tell it was there at all. It like magic. He's the best in town. I wouldn't recommend anyone but him read more

Paul and his team did a great job on my Eames Chair cushions. He spent the time re-hydrating the leather and even made a custom paint for some touch up work! Plus he's an awesome guy and his team was very friendly and great to work with! read more

Super positive experience! Would not hesitate to take another piece back. Had a snag in my leather sofa cushion about the size of a quarter, after sending in a photo, Tammy advised me to bring it in to their shop. I left it there and was called to come pick it up in less than 4 hours. Couldn't tell where the snag had been at all! Super friendly staff and an authentic Austin small business experience! Thanks y'all! read more

This place is a total disaster. I would give it zero stars if I could. My experience with Leather Menders was bad in an epic way. Sorry for the long review... I have two leather chairs from my parents that are probably 30 years old and are really unique and special. I've never seen any other chairs like them. The leather was aniline (natural, treated with a simple clear coating) and great quality, but had stains and wear from age. I took them to Leather Menders to see if they could clean them up, remove some of the stains, but keep the natural look. Other places where I had inquired told me that they would just treat the leather with an opaque dye coating -- effectively losing the natural look. Paul at Leather Menders said he wouldn't be able to get them perfect, but that he would be able to clean and wax them while keeping the natural look. He said I would see a big improvement. A month later I called to check in and was told that Paul was working on them and to check back in a week. Same thing happened the following week and the week after. When I was told that they were ready and went to pick them up, I went in and they were awful! They looked like they had been sandpapered and left in the back of a truck for a few weeks. There were sandpaper marks, little grey spots that looked like the beginning of mildew, and strange red/orange marks that looked like something rusty had been sitting on top of them for a long time. There was no coating on them at all. I told Rafael (Paul's co-owner) that they looked much worse than when I brought them in and asked him to fix them. Rafael told me to call and talk to Paul. As a side note, their hours are M-F 9-5, so every time I needed to go to their shop, I had to take off time from work. I called and talked to Paul. He said that the work had not been acceptable and that he had not reviewed it yet when I was told to come pick it up. He said that they would get it fixed. Another month passes and I call again. Paul tells me that he's worked up some samples of the stains that they could apply. He says I should come in to take a look when he's there and we set up a time. I go to the shop and he's not there. Rafael and another guy in the shop show me some different stains that they've applied to one chair. One sample is white, one irridescent, one tan, etc. I pick the one that I like the best and tell them (a clear coat with a light beige tint). A few weeks later, I call to check in again. Paul tells me he's been working on the chairs and I should come by to take a look to see what I think on one of the chairs before they do the other one. I go to the shop yet again. The chair is irridescent -- NOT the color that I had selected. Also, there are suede-like patches where the leather has been over-sanded and is starting to get nubby. I tell Paul. Rather than accepting responsibility for another mistake, he tells me that they just went out and bought a whole tub of irridescent tint just for me -- as if I'm somehow making things difficult for them. Ultimately, he says that he'll fix it. Another few weeks go by. I call again. (At this point, every time I call the folks in the office are short with me on the phone although I've been nothing but polite.) Chairs aren't ready. I call the next week and I'm told that the chairs are ready. I go in the next day. Paul says that he still needs to "buff" them. So I sit and wait for 30 minutes while he buffs them. (So much for them being ready.) The chairs have been painted beige -- with the opaque dye coating that I wanted to avoid all along! I note that the color is ok but they're not the natural look that we had discussed. Paul says he'll knock off $25 from the price he had quoted me "for my time." Are you kidding me? I (calmly and respectully) explain to him that I think he should reduce the price by a lot more than that -- he's had my chairs for nearly five months, and the work he's done is not the work that we agreed upon or that I requested. Paul, Rafael, and the lady at the desk all keep telling me that they've done so much work on these chairs. Um, all of the work was to correct their own mistakes!! The chairs ended up with exactly the type of treatment that I did not want. Paul agrees to reduce the cost by $70 rather than $30 and leaves. I start to pay and the lady at the desk (who I think is his wife) just goes off at me -- ranting about how much work has been involved and how they should go strip the chairs down and give them back to me the way they they were before. I would happily do that if I thought it would be possible to get the chairs back in the condition that they were before -- but I'm convinced they would be destroyed if they tried to strip them. She was totally and completely unprofessional. She was downright nasty and hateful. I resisted the urge to respond likewise. My chairs ended up with exactly the generic, vinyl look I didn't want. I should've refused to pay. read more

It's May now and I'm getting an email from Leather Menders regarding the comment I posted back in Feb. I am more than happy to forward the entire email to anyone. Apparently my comments on yelp were not well received. Here's a bit of that email. "With small businesses closing daily, i feel your comment was unfair and unjust without even a simple follow up call on your part to see if we had received your email. Good luck to you, finding an upolsterer in Austin that will respond to your needs.-----[Leather Menders]" First I mean no harm to small business. Small local business are great. That's what adds charm to Austin. With that being said, Yelp is a forum to express your comments and experience about vendors, regardless of the size. I will not shy away from posting comments (good or bad) because of the size of a business. Secondly, I need to make a correction. On my original posting, I said it was over two weeks and they had yet to get back to me. Well they did contact me after sending a follow up email on Feb. 10th. (Again I can share this with anyone who is interested) As Leather Menders pointed out in the email they sent me this morning (5/4/09), it wasn't over two week. It was from Jan 30 to Feb 10th before I got a response from them. I stand corrected. It was 7 days not 10 before they got back to me.... Much better response time than I had originally put. God forbid you think they take a long time to get back to you. I ended up getting a slip cover for my sofa. read more

The previous owner of my Mercedes ML63 AMG had glued a device to the leather dash and left an ugly blemish on the otherwise perfect car. I reached out to Paul to see if this was something he could repair. About 3.5 hours of effort later, the blemish was reduced form an obvious unsightly scar to only discernible in certain light and only if you know where to look! I was absolutely pleased with the results. Artisan quality for sure. read more

Props to Christine A for the referral. I used these guys to repair a leather car seat with 200k miles on it. They gave me options and did a great job. I was VERY happy with their work. The only reason that I give these guys 4 stars instead of 5 is that they aren't very good (pretty bad actually ) at follow-up. They're great at repairing leather (or using vinyl if you need a less expensive alternative) but bad at being organized, follow-up calls, "hey your steering wheel wrap is in" calls, etc. read more

ATTENTION: this review is for customer service only. We DID NOT use leather menders to fix our sofa, but we did try and were displeased by the service. I have a leather couch that I received from my parents as a housewarming gift a few years ago. We noticed a small tear in it and asked the leather menders for a quote on fixing it. The good - they offer quotes via email and respond quickly, 4 stars for quick response. The bad - they can't fix our couch because of the type of leather it is - apparently not super high quality so they won't touch it. BUT, the thing that made our experience with leather menders unpleasant is the type of response we got. The company was very short with us and, after they said they couldn't fix it (in a less than pleasant tone) their response to us asking for a home remedy was "buy real leather next time." Lack of helpfulness and judgmental tone, 1 star. So yeah, not pleased with the customer service. This may not be a reflection of the quality of their work and I encourage everyone to try them out for yourselves, but even if they had said they could fix it the tone they took with us this early on would have sent us elsewhere. Hopefully others will have a better experience, but it seems worthy of a head's up. Still hoping to find a way to fix our beloved, apparently garbage, couch but it's back to square one for us! read more

Leather Menders is one of those rare and Great finds! Great Results! Personalized Service! It does not get any better! We have leather chairs that were structurally in good shape, but the leather looked badly worn. Paul and crew totally restored the look and finish, so the chairs look brand new! Could not be happier! At pick-up, Paul noticed sun damage on the leather portion of our couch and when delivering the chairs, Paul treated the couch and made it like New! Thank you Paul and Tammy!!!! read more

A moving company scratched my footboard and they took it to Leather Menders for repair. When they went to pick it up, they noticed a scratch that was still there (so they didn't even fix it all in the first place) and asked them to repair it. The owner called me when it was ready again and said he was going to "throw it in the back of the truck" and be at my place to deliver it in 15 mins. I thought that was just a figure of speech, but these scratches were on it when he dropped it off. He set it up against the edge of the bed, where I left it untouched until a few hours later when I went to attach it back to the rest of the bedframe. I stupidly assumed they did a quality job and didn't look it over when he was there because I was on a business call. I shouldn't have assumed that since they hadn't even fully repaired it when the woman from the moving company went to pick it up. They didn't even wrap the footboard part to protect from the back of his truck or anything else, they only wrapped the wooden feet. read more

Leather Menders - Furniture Reupholstery Near Me - Austin, Texas

Like Andrew G., I discovered Leather Menders via reference from a car dealership, in this case the local Lexus dealer. I'd just bought an eight-year-old coupe from a family friend that was in nearly perfect condition except for the driver's seat, which was worn to the point of the foam being exposed. Two days later, the seat emerged looking literally like new. I don't know what kind of mojo they use to produce these kinds of results, but they truly work wonders. This past week I had more of a challenge for them: I'd managed to ding the hell out of my mom's SUV's dashboard while carting an extra-long and extra-heavy set of bookcase shelves that required me to prop them on edge on the dash. Said shelves promptly embedded themselves in the dash's vinyl, and since Mom's in the process of selling the car (and I didn't even want to think about what it'd cost to order and install a new dash from the local dealership), I took it to Leather Menders to see if they could handle the task. After a hearty "Boy, how in the hell did you manage to do THAT?", they took it in and fixed it just about perfectly for $150. I heartily recommend Leather Menders to anyone needing repair of any leather or vinyl on anything that rides on wheels. read more

I had them replace about half of the vinyl on a 19 foot boat. My only complaint is that they took quite a bit longer than they first estimated but it was a lot of work and they gave me an unrequested 10% discount in the end that made up for it. Very good work for a fair price. Highly recommended and I will be going back in a year or so to replace the rest of the boat's vinyl. read more

They did a great job repairing my seat which got punctured while at a local body shop that wouldn't admit to it, yet offered to pay to have it fixed. Paul is an awesome guy, and a great, hard worker. I dropped my car off in Monday and it was ready to pick up the next evening! Great customer care and service! Paul even cleaned my seats for me, even though he didn't have to! I would highly recommend Leather Menders to anyone, and would be the first place to come to mind when someone needs leather or vinyl repaired! read more

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Leather Menders does amazing work. Best part is you're dealing with a family owned business which is a breath of fresh air in this day and age. Don't waste your money going to the dealership when you can get quality work for a reasonable price! read more

I am absolutely thrilled with my results at Leather Menders!!!! I have a Lexus LS 460 that had stained and discolored seats due to sunscreen. The seats were yellowed and looked terrible. I brought the car to Leather Menders and they made the seats look absolutely brand new! I was going to go and buy a new car, and now I don't have to! So, basically Leather Menders saved me from having to buy a new car. Instead my car looks brand new!! I am so happy with Leather Menders! read more

Christine A's recommendation comes through again! I have a leather executive desk chair that cost me a lot of money about 10 yrs ago. I wanted to bring it to my new job, but the arm rests were pretty ragged. I was a little apprehensive about taking it in that condition. I almost got one of those DIY kits to try and repair it myself, but everything I saw online (that was written by someone who knows what they're talking about) said to avoid DIY methods. That said, I didn't want to pay a ton of money to have the arm rests fixed. Luckily, there's Yelp! I started looking around and saw Christine had good luck w/ Leather Menders, and I saw they aren't too far from where I live. I got in touch w/ Paul (the owner) on a Saturday. BTW, they're open 9-5 Mon-Fri...I couldn't find that anywhere on their site, Yelp, or otherwise. Anyway, Paul the owner was doing some work on a Saturday. I happened to catch him while he was there and told me to bring by the arm rests. Once I brought them by, we agreed on a price to fix them (only 50 bucks!) and away I went. 3 days later the arm rests were repaired and are as good as new. Now I can bring my favorite chair to work and not worry about it looking too used. Thanks Leather Menders! read more

Nice people, good work and fair price. They went out of their way to meet my schedule.

Paul did a fabulous job on my sofa, saved me from botching a $3000 couch with DIY repairs from a YouTube video. Some things SHOULD be left to the professionals. Highly recommend Leather Menders. read more

They restored the leather seats in our 9 year old Lexus. They did an excellent job at a reasonable price and on time. The staff was pleasant to deal with. I would use them again! read more

Very satisfied customer will be back with my work thank you !!!! Paul and your crew, saved me a costly recovering of my massage table.

You will NOT be disappointed by going to Leather Menders. Their work is top notch and very reasonably priced. Looking to revitalize some leather or make some improvements before selling a car, then get these guys to do the work. I had a sun-baked dashboard with pieces of brown leather flaking away and spreading. They cleaned it up and layered in new leather so that it looks like new, matches color and left no evidence that it had ever been damaged. (Brought it to a dealer for a trade-in evaluation immediately afterward and it was not noticed.) Paul is the guy to connect with and he's got a great team working with him. read more