Visible mending couch

A curated list of ideas for how to repair upholstery including how to cover up cat scratched couch arms and furniture patching ideas.

Over the past few years we’ve seen a (welcome) resurgence in mending: taking a needle and thread to socks, sweaters, and kitchen linens as needed to help them last (and avoid buying new). It’s an old-fashioned solution that’s returned, in part, as an inch-by-inch, stitch-by-stitch holdfast against fast fashion and disposable culture. But patching isn’t […]

One Reddit user shared a shocking before-and-after photo of the nasty cat scratches on their couch and how they repaired them.

This foolproof DIY-project took my sofa from a wreck to a statement piece in no-time

Not my couch, but what a great repair! "Someone in my home tips group showed a person embroidering their couch where the cat had damaged it and it inspired me to fix my own couch with embroidery!"

I've been wanting to fix up our tattered sofa upholstery for ages – it'd been shredded on the arms by our cats scratching it and looked really terrible. Luckily the damage was to the surface of the fabric and hadn't gone all the way through, so I decided to try to patch it as the

yep, this is a MEGA DIY. embroidered sofa, also amazing way to fix old sofa with style