Once Upon Upholstery

Miami Beach

Bespoke
recover.

Sofas, chairs, and beds. Molly sources the fabric. The truck picks the piece up and brings it home.

Start Your Project See the work
  • Sofas, chairs, and beds
  • She sources the fabric
  • Truck pickup and return
A handcrafted channel-back banquette in pale linen, with a white cabinet base, in a sunlit room.
Handcrafted channel-back banquette

The work

Four white swan-back chairs with bright geometric seat cushions around a pale dining table, with a dusty pink banquette behind them.
The girlies love the prints
A white slipcovered sofa with four red throw pillows in a furnished living room.
Some sofas are worth keeping forever
A custom bed set into a boucle wall unit, with a boucle nightstand and a sculptural ceiling light.
Custom beds, upholstery, and lighting for Studio Santos
Two wooden armchairs newly covered in blue fabric with thin white stripes, standing in the workshop.
A fresh pair of family heirloom chairs
A restored womb chair in green fabric with black leather on the crest and arms, and tapered wood legs.
Restored midcentury modern womb chair
A bed with a curved shirred headboard, floral pillows, and a turquoise ruffled bed skirt against matching wallpaper.
Shirred headboard for this happy chic bedroom
Four walnut barstools with cream shearling seats at a dark bar.
Oversized custom barstools. Solid walnut with shearling.
A white metal outdoor sofa and chair covered in a green palm-leaf fabric, on a Miami Beach patio.
Inspired fabric on the master patio
A large bisque linen sectional with a chaise, in an open kitchen and living room.
Beautiful bisque linen modular upholstery
Handmade swing cushion insert and cover.
Handmade swing cushion
Bench cushions and pillows.
Bench cushions and pillows sent to Carmel

A little bit about me…

Molly Stubstad Forenza

Molly Forenza has an extensive portfolio designing homes with a Miami chic authenticity and a quiet sense of modern luxury and elegance. She grew up in the furniture industry, with a deep respect for the pieces that make it into a home. Pattern making and fabric selection are her practice.

She offers that work to anyone with an old, shabby piece that might not be ready for the end of its story. Furniture today is not made to the same quality as the furniture of yesterday. Bringing it back with new fabric and craftsmanship is more sustainable, and more fun.

“because the new chair just doesn’t quite fit like the old one!”