He would like to see 25-foot-wide bays so there is plenty of room for technicians to work without bumping into each other. Stuart also believes in having some “traffic control” in the shop.

The upholstery shop had two consecutive locations on Chalkstone Avenue in Providence before he moved it to Mineral Spring Avenue in North Providence in 1965. It's been there since.

Sheet metal work used to be a highly skilled trade. One of the reasons was that everything used in the systems had to be made in the shop, which involved complicated layout work as well as skillful ...

Tara and Mike McVary added an upholstery business thanks to railroad consolidation in Springfield. The couple, owners of Afar Interiors at 3125 S. Douglas Ave., recently acquired Ash Street Upholst… ...

KENNETT SQUARE-When he was a boy growing up in Philadelphia, Modesto Solano would look longingly out the window of his father’s furniture refinishing and upholstery shop to the street, where … ...