We decided we couldn't live with it, so we went in search of fabric and at first it was a tough job as there was nothing that we liked then we stumbled upon a couple of really nice shops. All the time in India you hear tales and stories about bad service, delays and bad workmanship, well I'm going to tell you of a very good experience that we had.
At 4pm one Saturday afternoon we placed a fabric order and on the following Tuesday morning we got a call to say it had arrived. On the Wednesday morning the 'Tailor' and his band of merry men (varying in number between 2 and 6 depending on the day!)arrived at the house and began their work. I was curious as to their initial estimate of 2-3 days to complete the work as it sounded very optimistic (and it was!) especially there being 3 sofas, 2 chairs, 2 pouffes and loads of cushions, oh yes and they were also making us curtains for 3 large windows and 3 large sets of French doors. 
They set up their sewing machine, just the one, on a mat on the floor and got to work. Over the next week they stripped our sofas, they cut and they sewed well into the night, most nights which wasn't so good, because if they'd started earlier each day they might have left our house, perhaps by 7pm leaving us to have some sort of evening together, but no, and on the evening that DH had a trip to Delhi they were here until gone midnight and I finally just had to boot them out or I was never going to get up the next morning.
And so, just over a week later, hampered by the bad weather and floods, power cuts, a motorcycle accident and a needle through a finger we are the owners of a swish set of lovely new sofas - again! And the total cost for all this work, fabric and curtains...well we got a few pennies change from £grand, not bad eh?
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