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Care Tips

Just like any leather furniture you have, an antique leather chair requires a certain amount of care to help make it look as beautiful and as presentable as it should. One of the things you need to do when caring for your antique leather chair is to first figure out what kind of leather is being used on it. Since untreated and treated leather often require different kinds of cleaning techniques to it, you should first try to determine if the leather on your antique leather chair is treated or not.

For treated leather, you should use a mild soap on a damp piece of soft cloth to clean it with. If your leather is untreated, saddle soap will do nicely. Just lather up the soap you use on these chairs with the use of a soft damp piece of cloth or sponge and wipe off this lather with the use of another clean, damp piece of cloth. Let this air dry. If you are unsure whether your leather is treated or not, clean it up every week with the use of a vacuum cleaner and a brush attachment and wipe it off with a damp piece of cloth after doing so.

There are times when the leather of your antique leather chair becomes damaged or dry due to age or misuse. For this kind of a problem, your solution either lies with a master leather technician that can restore old, dry leather back to almost its original state or in an upholsterer that can easily replace your old leather with new leather without damaging the integrity of your antique leather chair or removing any of its old world charm with the new leather that they put on it. The replacing of the old, damaged leather that is on an antique chair can only prolong the life of your antique chair and most of the time, it is the wooden base or frame that is considered the more important part of the seat when it comes to these antique chairs and not the leather which can easily dry out or get damaged over time.