Abbas Upholstery & Design

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Abbas Upholstery & Design has operated on Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, San Diego, since 1995 under owner Bassem Abbas, rebuilding and recovering residential and commercial furniture from a ground-floor workshop at the intersection of 30th Street and Ohio Street. Interior designers renovating homes in the 92116 corridor treat Abbas as a structural design partner alongside architectural firms such as WHIT at HOME, coordinating fabric pulls and frame rebuilds as part of full-room renovation timelines. The shop handles complete reupholstery on sofas, sectionals, dining chairs, and armchairs, stripping existing fabric, replacing foam and batting, and recovering in client-selected textiles from an in-house sample library. Antique and vintage restoration is a core specialty — Abbas has rebuilt pre-1940 barrel-back chairs, Victorian settees, and mid-century lounge pieces, matching historical construction methods including eight-way hand-tied spring suspension where originals require period accuracy. The scope extends beyond household furniture to marine upholstery for boat cushions and cockpit seating, along with automotive seat recovering for classic and custom vehicles. Custom slipcovers, headboards, and window-seat cushions round out the residential portfolio, while commercial booth seating and banquette fabrication serve restaurants along the Adams Avenue dining corridor. Decorative detailing — welt cord, tufting, channel-back stitching, and nailhead trim — runs through the same workroom that handles structural rebuilds, placing Abbas in the same textile-craft lane as Leslie Du Fresne Custom Decorative Sewing farther east in the neighborhood. The walking-foot industrial machine on-site processes Sunbrella, Crypton, and multi-layered marine vinyl rated to 10 ounces per yard.