January 27th, 2012 by TRT Blog

When working with clients, there are several different ways
The Refinishing Touch helps transforms their properties and assets, across the education, hospitality and government industries. From armoire conversion to refurbishing, The Refinishing Touch transforms existing assets to like new condition while minimizing out-of-pocket costs.

One important aspect of The Refinishing Touch is upholstery. While it may seem like a small part of refinishing and refurbishing, reupholstery can make a big difference when updating existing furniture. Over time, fabrics often lose their luster or become outdated, but replacing furniture can be costly and time consuming. Reupholstery is a great, cost effective alternative to buying new while still updating and extending the life of your furniture.

Here at The Refinishing Touch, we help clients breathe new life into their furniture with reupholstering. We use our original, Touch Textiles, which offers a wide variety of patterns and colors, ensuring that clients across all sectors find exactly the fabric they’re looking for.

Touch Textiles offers a large selection of choices, and with the help of our in-house design team, clients are sure to achieve the look they want. The best way to understand how reupholstery can change the look of a piece and an entire room is to see for yourself. Take a look at how our Touch Textiles have helped clients achieve a new, updated look without the cost and hassle of buying new furniture.

Before & After:

Hilton Atlanta:

Pala Casino:

Windsor Court New Orleans:

Banquettes:

Boston Hyatt:

Headboards:

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July 13th, 2010 by TRT Blog

In recent years, the hospitality industry has seen a spike in demand and use of eco-friendly and recyclable goods — most notably textiles. Touch Textiles came about as a direct response to the demand, and we are thrilled to announce our newest addition to the textile brand with our new line of eco-friendly polyester fabrics.

In the US, 64% of municipal waste is deposited in landfills each year, of which, 51 billion plastic bottles take up space in these landfills annually. If stretched out, these bottles would wrap around the earth five times, and would take a staggering 700 years to decompose.

With the addition of the polyester line into Touch Textiles’ offerings, we are taking the bottles that are recycled and are using them to create high quality fabrics to offer as environmentally responsible alternatives in each of our re-upholstery projects. With new innovative technologies available to sort through recycled goods, we’re able to separate materials and recycle them correctly to offer the best products possible.

To make the best material for our projects with these recyclables, we need PET (Poly Ethylene Terephthalate). PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) impurities have to be removed from bottles in the plant to obtain the PET chips which are used in the fiber. Once filtered out of bottles, the chips can be turned into a fiber, and it is at this stage that we use them in our projects.

With two million bottles used every ten minutes, the opportunity to lower the use of virgin materials in our products and increase the sustainability of our planet is more present than ever — especially when only ten bottles are needed for a pound of fabric.  That translates to a possible 1.2 million pounds of fabric from just an hour’s worth of plastic bottles being used!

To learn more about our eco-friendly textile offerings, visit http://www.touchtextiles.com/

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