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A hand-upholstered bouclé armchair in the K&K Furnitures workshop in Parklands, Cape Town
Parklands · Cape Town

Couches built by hand,not bought by the pallet.

We make sofas, sectionals and armchairs to order in our Parklands workshop — buy a finished piece, or design your own down to the arm shape, the buttons and the colour.

Made to order in Parklands Built to your room's dimensions Re-covered and repaired for life
12 Pieces in the collection
9 Shapes you can build
14 Fabric colours
5 Upholstery fabrics
The workshop

One couch at a time, on Humewood Drive

K&K Furnitures is a working upholstery workshop in Parklands. Frames are jointed here, foam is cut here, fabric is sewn here. Nothing arrives in a flat-pack box with our name stuck on it.

That's slower than a warehouse, and it's the whole point — it means we can build to the wall you're measuring against, in the fabric you actually want, and fix it for you in five years' time.

  • Kiln-dried hardwood frames, jointed and glued
  • High-resilience foam, fibre-wrapped for shape
  • Patterns matched across every seam and cushion
  • Delivered by the people who built it
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A sculpted bouclé armchair being finished in the K&K Furnitures upholstery workshop, Parklands
Made here 37 Humewood Drive, Parklands
How it's made

Four stages, none of them skipped

A couch is only as good as the parts you can't see once it's covered. Here's the order we build in.

01

The frame

Kiln-dried hardwood, jointed and glued — not stapled chipboard. This is the part you never see and the part that decides whether the couch lasts twenty years or two.

The frame — K&K Furnitures workshop, Parklands Cape Town
02

The foam

High-resilience foam cut to the frame, layered with a fibre wrap so the seat holds its shape instead of flattening into a dip where everyone sits.

The foam — K&K Furnitures workshop, Parklands Cape Town
03

The fabric

Cut, matched and sewn by hand. Patterns are lined up across seams and cushions, which is slower and is the difference you notice from across the room.

The fabric — K&K Furnitures workshop, Parklands Cape Town
04

The finish

Buttons pulled and tied by hand, piping welted, legs turned and fitted. Then it gets sat on, checked, and only then does it leave the workshop.

The finish — K&K Furnitures workshop, Parklands Cape Town
Built up in layers

Watch one come together

Scroll, and the couch assembles itself the way it does on the workshop floor — frame first, comfort last. Six stages, in order.

  1. 01Hardwood legs turned and fitted
  2. 02Jointed frame and sprung base
  3. 03Back panel built and padded
  4. 04Arms shaped over the frame
  5. 05Seat cushions cut and wrapped
  6. 06Buttons tied, scatters added

This is our build order — to choose your own, use the builder

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Ready to order

The collection

Twelve pieces we build regularly, each one made to order in the fabric and colour you choose.

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The couch builder

Design it yourself, in 3D

Pick the shape, the arms, the back, the legs, the fabric and the detailing — and watch it build itself in front of you. Spin it, zoom in on the buttons, then send the exact specification to our workshop on WhatsApp.

  • Nine shapes, from an armchair to a corner sectional
  • Five fabrics and fourteen colours, rendered as they really are
  • Buttons, piping, nailhead trim, bows and fringing
  • A live price estimate as you change your mind
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Close-up of upholstery fabric texture and cushion detailing on a handmade K&K couch
Fabric library

Feel it before you commit

Velvet, bouclé, linen, leather and chenille — in fourteen colours. Ask us for swatches and we'll drop them off.

Linen weave upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Linen weave
Wool blends upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Wool blends
Colour range upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Colour range
Velvet upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Velvet
Chenille upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Chenille
Bouclé upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Bouclé
Naturals upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Naturals
Brights upholstery fabric sample — K&K Furnitures
Brights
What customers say

Word of mouth, mostly

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Why K&K

What you get from a workshop

Built, not assembled

Every frame is jointed and every cover cut in our own workshop. Nothing is imported flat-packed and re-badged.

Made to your room

Tell us the wall length and we build to it. Standard sizes are a starting point, not a limit.

Fabric that suits the house

Five upholstery fabrics and fourteen colours, with real swatches you can hold before you commit.

Repairable for life

Because we built it, we can re-cover it, re-foam it or fix it years later. Bring it back.

We deliver ourselves

Across Parklands, Table View, Blouberg and the rest of the northern suburbs — by the people who made it.

A person on WhatsApp

No ticket system. You message the workshop and someone who knows your couch answers.

Let's build it

Tell us the room. We'll build the couch.

Send us a photo of the space and the wall measurement — we'll come back with a shape, a fabric and a price.