![]() ![]() Being a mother and working to provide took most of my time. Teaching myself how to customize auto upholstery I found time the most challenging. I am extremely excited to see the results and the business to come. I am pleased to say I am wrapping up my first set of seat official seats for a customer. I made the decision to leave my full-time job, continuing to work at my part-time job, in order to take my business to the next level. From tips, customer satisfaction, and marketing techniques for business I am ready to take on this business full time. I low key look at him as a mentor because any question asked is answered and he continues providing tips and feedback as I continue my journey very honored. I am grateful to receive positive feedback and tips to have a successful business from someone I considered the greatest of all time Slick from “Stitched by Slick”. I was very pleased to know there are different ways to conduct such business. I reached out to a few upholsters for insight. Perfecting my craft and gaining as much knowledge as possible is very important. My instructors provided me with positive feedback building my confidence towards success. I came across an auto and boat upholstery class at a community college and decided to attend to the assure myself I had what it takes to truly go into business. I decided to take my time on my business development, continued working full-time and practicing my desired craft. Determined to get to a career I completely enjoyed I told myself the job I found in 2016 would be my last and ended up with three more, due to the need for finances over business goals. I slowly made progress to business by reupholstering the seats in my Chevy Monte Carlo. Unfortunately, my focus transition back to working full time and being a parent of two. Once I reupholstered the Challenger seats I decided to go back to Corporate America because the income was guaranteed to pay the bills while attempting to perfect my new craft. This takes a lot of time, patience, and dedication, especially starting as a one person team. From taking the seat covers off, unthreading them to pieces, to pattern making, sewing, and presenting a custom seat cover to dress the seat to a customer’s satisfaction. I was giving a set of Dodge Challenger seats to get me started. At the end of 2015 I was laid off from my job and thought “this is the perfect time to focus on school and practice at my upholstering.” I decided to invest in an industrial sewing machine to assure quality. Inspired and motivated I was completely sold on the business concept and ready to get to work. He deals with mostly old school cars customizing the entire interior. As I took notes I favored videos by upholsters like Slick with “Stitched by Slick”. I ordered a few auto upholstery books and watched videos on YouTube that helped me extend my knowledge on the craft. I bought a basic sewing machine, some material, and started practicing with some seats that were just laying around. I decided to teacher myself the concept of upholstery as I continued to dabble with working full time and going to school. ![]() I took apparel in high school, so I was familiar with the sewing machine. I researched what it takes to be an upholster and found it very similar to my dream of being a fashion designer only difference it’s for cars. With the desire to start a foundation for my children, I presented the idea to their father and started to plan for business. Seeing cars bought and sold I fell in love with the appearance and thought why not add to the business. I decided to revisit the idea of auto upholstery after I seen how much money was in the automobile industry alone. Between going to school and floating between jobs I was ready to find something I loved and would enjoy doing for income. Although I maintained a good GPA in college, I dropped out a few times to get a full time job to support my children. The suggestion was made for me to do auto upholstery once I graduated high school, but I declined to continue my education. This was perceived as a hobby and later identified as a hustle. I have seen motors changed, cars painted, rims bolted, systems installed, burnt rubber and donuts done in the streets to money being made to repeat. He would buy old school cars (mostly the GBody style made by GM) to fix them up, play with them a little, and then sell them. It was about 15 years ago that I was introduced to cars by my children’s father. Today we’d like to introduce you to Briana Chappell-Foreman.īriana, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today. ![]()
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