The woman who brings couches back from the dead

The woman who brings couches back from the dead

It’s a different kind of resurrection, but reupholstering a piece of furniture like a couch does give a lounge’s centrepiece a semblance of eternal life. This is what upholstering specialist Melanie Kaas has been doing for the past two decades. Kaas said that she absolutely loves what she does. There’s no boredom attached to it but rather, she said, emotion. That is because furniture becomes part of a family’s narrative. It’s got memories tied i…