The shop
Lenoir, NC workshop
4347 Lynn Martin Lane. Walk-in welcome by appointment — call before you load up the truck.
About the workshop
A father, a daughter, and careful stitches.
Renew Upholstery Services is a family-owned upholstery shop in Lenoir, North Carolina. Gary opened the doors in 2012 after a lifetime in the trade. His daughter Ashton runs the sewing floor today. Two generations, one bench, every piece signed off by hand before it leaves the building.
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The story
Built around the bench Gary started on.
Gary grew up in upholstery shops in the foothills of North Carolina — learning to break down frames, tie eight-way springs, and read fabric grain before most kids could drive. When he opened Renew Upholstery Services in 2012, the goal was simple: rebuild furniture the way it was rebuilt fifty years ago, when a sofa was meant to outlast the family that bought it.
Ashton joined the shop full-time and now runs every piece of sewing that goes out the door. She trained on her father's machines and brought the eye for fabric pattern, welt placement, and finish detail that customers see first. Together they handle the projects that other shops turn down — antique restorations, complicated tufting, marine work in compound curves, and medical chairs with bleach-grade vinyl.
The "two generations" piece of this isn't marketing — it's how the shop runs. Gary breaks down. Ashton sews. The pieces meet again at delivery.
Gary & AshtonFather, daughter · Lenoir, NC
By the numbers
What family-owned upholstery work looks like.
The shop has been at this long enough to develop hard rules about which fabrics survive a North Carolina summer, which foam densities last on a restaurant booth, and which frames are worth saving. None of that came from a YouTube video.
2012Founded in Lenoir
2 gen.Father-daughter shop
5.0★Google rating · 23 reviews
54+Cities served
Where we work
One shop. Pickup across western NC and the Charlotte metro.
The workshop is on Lynn Martin Lane in Lenoir, NC. From there we run pickup and delivery across the Foothills, into Boone and the High Country, through Hickory and Morganton, down through Charlotte and Lake Norman, and across the state line into Lake Wylie, Fort Mill, and Rock Hill SC.
Pickup & delivery
We come to you
Our marked truck and enclosed trailer haul the piece both directions. Most pickup runs are free with the project.
The bench
Pattern, cut, sew
Ashton runs the sewing floor. Every panel is patterned to the original piece — not a generic cover.
What we believe
The piece on your truck wasn't built to be replaced every five years.
Reupholstery is the original sustainable furniture. A hardwood frame that gets rebuilt every twenty to thirty years stays out of the landfill, keeps a family heirloom in the family, and almost always costs less than a quality new replacement. We're proud that work is what we do for a living.
Hardwood frames first
If the frame is solid, the piece is worth saving. We say so honestly — and we say so honestly when it isn't.
Foam and stitching are not "fabric"
Half the cost of a real reupholstery is what you don't see. New high-density foam, rebuilt seat decks, and stitching rated for the load.
Free, written estimates
No work begins without a written number you've signed off on. Photos welcomed for out-of-area customers.