Archive for October, 2008

We are now configuring the way that our sitting rooms or lounges are set out largely due to the way that our home entertainment is accessed. Not many have the piano in the room where we gathered round in an evening to entertain ourselves and for years we have relied upon television to do this for us. With the advent of new television systems, cinema style with large screen and surround sound means that the old style three piece suites is out of favour with many.

More and more of us are opting for leather sofas which are versatile and can accommodate the changes in the way we want our rooms to look. The Distinctive Chesterfields Derby range of sofas is just one example. Based on this the Hertford corner leather chesterfield is ideal for customising a corner of a lounge or study, with your entertainment system occupying the opposite wall. The chesterfield units can be made to either fix together permanently, or be pushed together as separate units as shown in our example. These units can be supplied as 1, 2, 3, or 4 seating sofas, with arm on left or right with the opposing end butting up to other items.

The antique leather club chair has never really gone out of fashion, original club chairs synonymous with gentlemen’s clubs in Westminster have been much sought after over the years. Techniques developed in England and practiced with skill and care by the craftsmen and leather workers at Distinctive Chesterfields mean that the antique club chair in a variety of styles in available to all.

Employing their skills, craftsmen manufacture the club or wing chair in the style of your choice and then begin the process of ‘antiquing’ this. Firstly it is blacked with a special treatment which makes the whole of the hide appear very dark, in fact almost black and then the hide is applied to the piece of furniture. The club chair leather is rubbed lightly by a professional leather worker with a special solution to reveal the lighter colour below, replicating the look of a true antique chair.

It happens every year, all the family arrive for the celebrations, children opening their presents and then the Christmas dinner that you have worked so hard to prepare, and then we settle down to watch the old black and white film or other Christmas entertainment on the television. But where does everyone sit?

The answer could be the eponymous chesterfield sofa from the extensive range of handmade leather products seen at the website of Distinctive Chesterfields. The choice of the chesterfield sofa will depend on your personal preferences and the size and style of the room, but popular amongst their range is the Essex chesterfield sofa.

The Essex sofa is the smaller brother of the Dorset range, the Essex family of Chesterfields are suitable for the smaller home or room and this makes it ideal for today’s modern home, hurry now there is still time to get it for Christmas!

Probably not many of us will have visited a gentleman’s club in Westminster, but many of us will have seen pictures of them, opulent with polished wooden floors, and dark comfortable leather chairs. Most of these club rooms will have club chairs of differing shapes and styles, but they will mostly have one thing in common, they are leather and will have been hand made.

At distinctive chesterfields manufacturing classic and traditional leather furniture is our specialty. We have years of experience and a team of fully trained professional craftsmen, leather workers, cabinet makers and polishers ensuring that every handmade club chair is destined to provide a lifetime of beauty and comfort. To replicate the feel and look of the Westminster club is achieved by choosing from the wide range of leather club chairs that are offer at the website of distinctive chesterfields, for the authentic look different styles of club chair is recommended.

You will never really know how many uses a footstool can be put to until you have bought your very first from the collection at the Distinctive Chesterfield website. Naturally you will have decided to buy a footstool so that you can put your feet up after a hard day at work or coping with the children, this is of course the primary object of the footstool.

Look into any sitting room and you will see a footstool being used for the magazine, TV programmes, and newspapers or as a useful place to rest ones crossword whilst the brain re-engages! Children just love to sit on them and they make a useful addition in any bedroom for dressing or just leaving your clothes overnight. The Queen Anne standard footstool is one of the ranges from Distinctive Chesterfields and is perhaps the one that will fit into any setting. With this style you can choose from the full range of leather styles and colours and versatility is assured.

We are safe in the knowledge that you will be highly delighted with the chesterfield sofa or club chair that you buy from us, it was after all, hand made using the finest materials by time served furniture craftsmen. We at Distinctive Chesterfields always stand by our product in the certainty that it will provide you with many years of pleasure and enjoyment.

Naturally all our products come with a full guarantee with each leather Chesterfield piece being fully inspected prior to freight packing to ensure a wholly pleasurable experience for you on the day of arrival of your new piece of leather furniture.

Our comprehensive standard guarantee covers a 12 month period, but further because our frames are manufactured in selected hardwood and perfectly screwed and dowelled together, these are covered for 10 years from the date of purchase. If you should choose, we can extend our standard guarantee to 5years with an extended warranty pack, contact us for details.

It is not necessary to trawl around sale rooms looking for antique leather furniture, which when found may need a lot of restoration to make it looking at its best and become suitable for use as a club chair or a chesterfield sofa.

Using traditional methods of construction by time served leather workers and woodworking craftsmen, Distinctive Chesterfields can bring you that much envied chair or sofa which is guaranteed to last a lifetime or more and look good as well as truly functional.

In the Yorkshire workshops of Distinctive Chesterfields, the all important frame of the chair or sofa is constructed from sustainable hardwoods all assembled by screwing the dowelled components together, no machine nailing is employed. The leather finish is applied by hand and three styles of leather is available from which you can choose with a range of colour that will suit even the most discerning of customer.

Look around shops selling and website selling leather furniture and you will definitely see many types of club chair but there is only one Distinctive Chesterfield club chair, a hand made, and hardwood framed example of one of a number of styles of club chair from this established Yorkshire craft workshop.

Looking through the nineteen distinctive offering you will be spoilt for choice, but if you take the Dorset club chair as an example, here you will see an adaption of the traditional club chair, a 21st century model. It features a solid mahogany bun foot, and double buttoned border, hand nailed facings, and fully spring back and arms. A distinguishing feature of the Dorset is its hand stuffed fibre cushion giving supreme comfort and luxury.

Buying a chesterfield sofa or club chair does not mean that it has to be a run of the mill, just off a production line piece of furniture which is covered in leather or man made imitation. Indeed at Distinctive Chesterfields it is impossible to get any furniture that is not bespoke made to your requirements, and we will never use man made imitation leather ever!

The signature range of our products is an example of why you are treated as an important individual buyer with your own personal needs. When choosing signature at distinctive chesterfields, and because all of our products are truly handmade and crafted here in the North of England, we can offer a truly bespoke service, to satisfy your individual requirements. You will find that every element of the product can be altered to your specification, be it taller, deeper, wider or longer. It can be upholstered to your specific colour, we can even pattern match a sample sent to us. If you are looking for a centre piece, be it for home, or commercial project, look no further than our signature range.

Leather is the longest lasting and most durable upholstery material you can get, few would argue that it is best for any room of your home or office or commercial premises such as hotel or other reception areas. Possibly leather is the strongest upholstery material known to man, this natural material will withstand the rigours of daily life, and that includes both children and pets.

We would never suggest that the leather we use on our chesterfields sofas, club chairs and footstools, is not more expensive than some fabric materials, the investment value of leather furniture is better in the long run outlasting fabric many times over, and it looks better too! We should stress that when we talk about leather we mean the natural animal product and not man made materials. Genuine leather furniture may contain subtle markings that distinguish it from synthetic materials and it will typically be warmer to the touch than leather imitation materials. Given simple but proper care, genuine leather will outlast most people’s lifetimes and will take on that unique patina not possible in man made materials.