Sofa renovation
Sofas, armchairs, chairs and more: your leather or leatherette furniture can be repaired!
Whatever the damage, Sofolk has the products and the know-how to repair it. Our leather renovation tutorials, our leather renovation products, our customer service, and 30 years of experience make the difference!
CHOOSE THE MATERIAL TO RENOVATE:
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Leather Sofa Renovation
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Leatherette Sofa Renovation
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Nubuck Sofa Renovation
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Alcantara Sofa Renovation
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Fabric Sofa Renovation
How do I repair my leather / skai sofa?
Is your sofa scratched, cracked, split? Even worse, are you faced with a small or even a large tear? Has the leather been faded by rubbing and sunlight, or do you want to change the colour to keep up with trends? You are in the right place!
Whatever the material and finish of your sofa, whether it is a velvety leather or not, or a skai, you can repair the damage with ease using Sofolk products. The Leather Healing Glue lets you stick lifted edges back down and becomes invisible as it dries. An effective way to quickly make scratches and other small tears disappear.
For more serious damage, Sofolk Repair Paste is a liquid leather that lets you fill cracks, or holes with the help of an additional piece of leather if needed. A complete recolouring of your sofa may prove necessary depending on the repair carried out, in order to achieve a perfect finish.
Please note, however, that a stained or damaged nubuck sofa will need to be transformed into smooth leather before receiving repair and recolouring treatments. This new texture will be permanent and will let you restore a flawless leather surface on your sofa.
How do I repair a leather or skai chair?
In the same way as for your sofa, the Sofolk Repair Paste or Leather Healing Glue let you repair the various snags on your leather or skai chairs. Even badly damaged or holed, leather and skai can indeed be repaired very easily with these simple-to-use products. The Sofolk range also offers complete kits for a full renovation of your leather or skai chairs at the best price!
Depending on the damage, Sofolk recommends a liquid leather, a healing glue, or pieces of leather to fill a hole, and can offer you a 100% personalised kit that contains only what you need for your project. To guide and help you further at every step, Sofolk provides numerous leather tutorials and skai tutorials.
Here again, if your nubuck chairs have damage that is too extensive, they cannot be repaired without changing the velvety texture of this finish into smooth leather. This transformation is essential so that the various treatments adhere well and give a flawless result.
Recolouring a leather or leatherette bench seat?
Is your leather or leatherette furniture faded because of the sun or use? Has the leather's surface layer come away along with the colour? Sofolk offers professional-grade colourants and dyes to give your leather or leatherette sofa a second youth.
Choose your colour from our various colour charts, or send us a sample for a made-to-measure shade, and breathe new life into your high-end lounge suite without replacing it. The Sofolk Pigment Leather Colourant also lets you simply change the colour of your sofa as the fancy takes you. Using a foam roller and a brush, you simply apply this new colour to your leather or leatherette bench seat. An effective way to keep the comfort of this luxurious furniture while changing its style.
If your bench seat is in nubuck, our specific aerosol dye will let you revive a dull colour, or change it to a deep black, which can look very chic if you wish. In every case, the surface of your bench seat must be in good condition. Stains or snags cannot be made to disappear with a simple recolouring, and you will then need to change its texture to smooth leather in order to achieve a complete renovation.
In addition, we invite you to order the right quantity of dye or colourant to avoid a restoration in two stages, which could leave marks. Renovating a cracked white leather sofa will, for example, need more product than renovating a burgundy leather sofa because of its light shade. If you have any doubt, you can contact our teams to design a 100% personalised kit with them and validate the products you want as well as their quantities, for an order suited to your situation.
How do I care for my leather or faux leather, vinyl sofa?
Care, like protection, is a fundamental element in keeping your leather or faux leather sofa in good condition for the long term. With the right products and regular care, which we advise carrying out every quarter, you can be sure of enjoying it for many years with the same comfort in use and aesthetic pleasure. To this end, and to avoid a stained leather lounge suite or a dulled colour, we show you the right habits to adopt depending on the material of your sofa.
To care for a genuine leather sofa, the Sofolk leather care kits are an ideal ally for looking after your lounge suite. Made up of a Cleaner / Stain Remover, a Nourishing Oil and a Silky Lacquer, you can be sure of preserving your leather sofa with products designed specially for this noble material.
If you own a leatherette or skai sofa, the same Sofolk Cleaner / Stain Remover can be used, and should be combined with our Colourless Protection for Leatherette Lounge Suites for complete, lasting care.
In the case of a nubuck sofa, it is important to maintain its velvety finish with the right products. To this end, we advise the Nubuck Lounge Suite Cleaner, as well as our Universal Waterproofer.
How do I protect my natural or artificial hide sofas?
The armrests, as well as the neck area and the seats of your synthetic and natural leather sofas, need Protective Wax, Nourishing Oil or Silky Lacquer in order to withstand rubbing and time. The Sofolk lacquer range protects your leather and leatherette sofas durably with three different finishes: matt, satin or gloss. Depending on the product chosen, you will find it in a bottle or an aerosol to suit your situation and your needs.
We advise using a Universal Waterproofer to protect your nubuck sofa and enjoy its soft, velvety texture for many years. Indeed, any other unsuitable product would damage its very particular finish, which gives it that unrivalled look.
What method should you use to care for your genuine leather or vinyl sofa?
Has your leather lounge suite become dry and brittle? Has a stain settled on your luxury sofa? The Sofolk method and its premium products ensure a perfect leather sofa renovation, and care that guarantees you an incomparably consistent result.
Once a quarter, you carry out a quality clean on the most heavily used areas of your sofa, before protecting the surfaces with products suited to the leather or leatherette of your sofa. Regular care that protects your leather from rubbing, scratches and other household pollution, and that you apply with ease thanks to easy-to-use products. Your leather regains all its suppleness for real everyday comfort.
Why choose Sofolk to restore your leather or alternative leather sofa?
Sofolk is not just quality products, it is also a network of many partner professionals who trust our expertise in the renovation of leather or alternative leather sofas.
Sofolk products are so effective and easy to use that you will have no trouble renovating all your tanned hide or faux hide, vinyl and other surfaces, from home and without any assistance. Sofolk supports you throughout your leather renovation project, thanks to telephone support, but also a forum and numerous tutorials to advise and guide you step by step.
Leather and vinyl renovation products
Born of 30 years of development, the Sofolk range is made up of products suited to each step of the renovation of your leather or skai sofa, renovation kits, touch-up kits, tear kits, and even personalised restoration kits.
All our products can be applied without any particular skill, with the aim of bringing leather and leatherette care within everyone's reach. You are now ready to give your leather or leather-like furniture a makeover and bring it up to date!
The know-how to renovate your sofa
The result is always flawless! It is the fruit of many years of work that we now share with you in order to restore all your smooth, velvety or grained leathers, whether cow, cowhide, sheep, goat, lamb, pig, deer and more, and on any finish: aniline, semi-aniline or pigmented leather, full-grain or corrected-grain.
We make our expertise in leather and tanning available to you on our forum dedicated to the renovation of your leather or leatherette sofa. Use this section to ask us your questions and send us your photos. We can then give you precise answers suited to your situation. You will also find several customer testimonials there and be able to benefit from their Sofolk experiences.
How much does it cost to renovate a sofa?
To restore your leather sofa, we advise our Sofolk Leather Sofa Renovation kit, a complete assortment of products that lets you see your project through and give a second youth to this central element of your lounge. These kits are available in several versions, depending on the size of your sofa, and will cost you between €109.99 and €209.99.
To restore your alternative leather sofa, we invite you to use our Skai or Leatherette Sofa Renovation kits. Here again, you benefit from a complete offer to renovate your sofa in the best possible way. Depending on the number of seats, the corresponding Sofolk kit will cost you between €59.99 and €79.99.
To restore your nubuck sofa, Sofolk offers a Renovation Kit for 4-5 Seat Nubuck Sofas that allows a complete renovation of your lounge suite. By transforming its velvety texture into smooth leather, you will be able to apply all the necessary treatments to it. Buying this specific kit will cost you €179.99.
You can of course choose more targeted kits, or buy the necessary products separately. However, these various renovation kits offer you a reduced price for a quality renovation of your leather sofa and a lasting result that you will appreciate.

