Brown Vinyl Repair Kit - Leather Color Restorer for Couches, Furniture, Car Seats, Purse, Jacket, and More - Advanced Gel, Filler, and Scratch Repair, Easy Match Guide

Don't throw out your couch!! This product far exceeded my expectations--which were high.We purchased our used Broyhill leather couch and armchair off eBay 15 years ago. Really. Four kids and three cats used these things to death. I've loved the real leather and the overall upscale look these couches provide. A few years ago we garbage-picked an exactly matching love seat from the side of the road. The arms had rather large holes in them and the leather was pretty gnarly. But it was free, and we needed the extra seating.However, this winter I had to face the fact that our couches were no longer shabby chic. They were just shabby. I started shopping for replacements and quickly realized that we could never afford to replace what we had. And the options we could afford were just cheap.I love a fix-it challenge, so I went online and found this repair kit. I've said that I had high expectations because our couches were in such bad shape: crackled, ripped, dull. But truthfully, I didn't think any product could restore our couches to any degree of beauty.I was wrong!!! Deliriously wrong!I mixed up my first batch of color and laid it one. I was skeptical. But I kept going. Pretty soon, the transformation grew evident: My battered couches were looking weathered, but lovely. I covered cat scratches and areas where the leather had cracked off. I redid much of the loveseat (cushions and arms), two couch cushions and arms, the top of the ottoman, and the arms of the armchair.For the slashed arm of the loveseat, I came across a men's leather jacket at our local Goodwill for $7. I dismantled it, sewed seams down the sides, and used a GOO product to glue my huge patch onto the sofa arm, matching the seams down the side and tucking one end under the side of the cushion and the other under the side of the arm where it slopes around at a 90 degree angle, and you can't see the seam. The color of the coat did not match the loveseat. At all. No problem!! I simply slathered on the leftover coloring and--WOW--it looks pretty great!It's been a few weeks since the initial coloring. Parts of the couch need some touching up. So I reordered the kit. I wanted to get more to keep around for future sprucing up.My husband put boards under the cushions, and I scavenged a memory foam futon cushion to supplement or replace the most deflated couch cushions. The couches and chair don't look perfect, but our style is kind of upscale cottage--or so I convince myself. We like the warm worn and comfy look.Thank you, Browns for this great product!! My one suggestion is that you provide a larger mixing container and spatula. I ended up using the bottom of the tube to spread the colorant on the large areas I was treating. I worked well. But it took me a while to come up with the solution.Buyers, you can purchase this product w confidence!

This is good for matching the color, but not great at filling in holes or deep scratches. If your goal is covering up fading colors or matching the color, this works well.

Perfect color for my couch.The different base brown colors with the white and black helps with getting the right shade. Like that it comes with all that we would need for the repair/paint touch up. While trying out different colors, if the shade wasn’t the exact match, I was able wipe it off with water. The instructions were clear.After the paint completely dries off, within an hour or two, the recently painted surface was a a bit dry and rough to the touch. This is to be expected as it is paint and not the soft leather that had peeled off. I applied some leather conditioner over it to soften it up the next day after it completely dried up. I also didn’t sit on it during that time just to be safe with the color but I think that’s not necessary. Looks good! Would definitely recommend.

It fixed some pretty significant areas on my couch that were peeling and/or completely peeled off. Unfortunately, the areas where I used it are no longer as sooth as the rest and because I couldn’t get a good color match without a red in the kit, I had to keep going over it to try to cover it up, so parts that didn’t really need it ended up getting covered and kind of messed up the whole feel of the couch. I tried using rubbing alcohol as suggested in the instructions to take the excess off but quickly realized it was also going to take the original vinyl off with it so that didn’t work. I did email them about my color issue and they very quickly sent me another kit at no charge that did have a red in it, which was very nice of them, and I was able to get a pretty good color match but kind of disappointed that the feel is so off. Maybe it will smooth out over time. Definitely do a small patch test and let it FULLY dry before doing the whole thing as the color changes significantly once dry. All in all, I’m glad the couch is no longer at risk of falling apart and it did help some cosmetic issues but it’s kind of a bummer that my nice soft couch is no longer soft.

Luckily, I did not have to mix colors to match my couch. Definitely hides the scratches and doesn't eliminate them completely. Helps my couch look like new.

I should have taken a before photo. The cushion on the right was completely peeling. The biggest bare spot was probably five inches across and three inches high. It was embarrassing. There were also peeling spots all over the rest of the cushion. It took a little trial and error to get the color matched. It was still a quick process even doing that. It feels great. It looks great! (Not perfect, because that is impossible. Keep your expectations realistic.) I am so pleased. This has definitely extended the life of our couch.I put two layers down. I did layer one before taking my three young kids out for the day so it could dry uninterrupted. I did layer two after they were in bed. I polished it up the next morning. I’d definitely recommend this to extend the life of your leather product.

This did not work out for me, but I’m not especially handy. I imagine for the right person with more talent, this could actually work.