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 my first time using a leather repair kit and I have to say, I'm pretty happy with this. It comes with many variations of brown and pretty much all the tools you need. The only tool it's missing is an item specifically meant to mix the different colors, and while it would be convenient to have, it isn't too bad that it's missing.So it's pretty easy to use and the concept is simple enough to understand, but there is one issue. You're supposed to mix colors to match exactly what you need and they give you a sheet that shows mixing results, and that's great, but it's really hard to tell if you have the right color. When I applied the filling it honestly looked like the color was off. Only about a half day later was I able to tell that the color was perfect and that's a bit too long to wait in order to find out if you have the right color or not because at that point, you're stuck with what you used.Another issue is that you're supposed to dab the area with a paper towel after using the filling to remove the excess filling, but that will end up removing the necessary filling as well. I ended up letting it dry for like 30 minutes before wiping off the excess with a wet paper towel. This method ended up giving me really great results so I guess it works.One more issue is something that really pertains to me mainly. To feel like I have enough filler to work with, I feel like I have to really squeeze out a lot of the filler from the tube into the mixing cup. It's not a big deal, but for me it feels like a waste if I end up getting the color wrong.Other than the issues listed above, this kit is really good. It makes it look like there were almost no tears in the leather. That being said, the leather I was working on only had surface tears and nothing deep. I highly recommend this kit for anyone who has light wear and tear at least.

I like the ability to match so many colors, only trouble is there’s no exact way to produce the same color the second or third time you use the paint. It’s difficult to make the same color. So that leaves only one option you must make enough paint to complete the job.

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.