OW Lee Creighton Replacement Cushions — Custom Cut to Your Measurements

Moves are hard on pads: a Creighton set that sat fine for years comes out of the truck with torn covers and shifted foam. This guide runs the rebuild sequence — confirm which retired line the frames belong to, tape each pad position, and price the new set.

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The Creighton line, briefly

Creighton is one of the few retired O.W. Lee names the company itself still acknowledges — listed alongside Kensington among “the earlier catalog names dealer charts no longer carry.” That official framing is the honest status: the line predates the current navigation, the frames were hand-forged and upholstered to order, and no cushion spec sheet was ever published.

Post-move rebuilds run on the same rails. Certify the line with the cues below, tape whatever survived the truck — pad or deck — and your Creighton replacements are cut to the figures in any of 119 upholstery options, sewn by the floor that sends them out.

Post-move, three things survive to identify by: the mark — O.W. Lee stamps a rail or mounts a brass plaque on each piece; the metal — hand-forged scrollwork on heavy-gauge frames, which imports never match; and any paper that made the trip — nationwide dealer sales mean an invoice or order history names the collection, while a big-box receipt reclassifies the set. The taping walkthrough picks up after that.

Placing your set as Creighton

Start with the maker, not the model: O.W. Lee frames carry a brass plaque or stamped mark on a frame rail, and the hand-forged weight is unmistakable against imports. If your set carries the mark and your paperwork once said “Creighton”, the identification is done — the question is only which pad each piece takes.

Use the order trail: retired-line pieces were sold on dealer tickets that named the collection, finish and fabric. A dealer invoice, an old quote sheet, or email history with the store that sold the set beats frame-guessing — one search of your records usually settles it.

Don’t confuse it with: Kensington, the era-mate it’s listed beside, and with the many places the name “Creighton” appears unrelated to patio furniture. The O.W. Lee plaque and the dealer paper are the two anchors that keep the identification honest.

After the move, sourcing reality: retired-line pads appear almost solely on the factory-store clearance page, in leftover cloth, sized as listed with no re-cut service. Rebuilding Creighton blocks from your own tape figures is the route no inventory decision can stall.

The unpublished Creighton spec sheet

Whatever survived the move, a spec sheet did not: O.W. Lee issues no per-collection cushion dimensions, and delisted runs like Creighton are charted nowhere. Figures on dealer sites, where they exist, cover whole pieces. So the dimension list for the rebuild is written at your place, not ours — three numbers per pad, taped off the frame, and nothing else.

If the move swallowed both the mark and the invoice, email pictures of the frames — we will pin the line together, and each pad position’s three dimensions take the order from there.

Measure ahead of ordering

What the truck left you, measure: width, depth and thickness at the seam for each pad or bare deck position, our measuring guide alongside, recorded per block. No chart exists for the line, so the three figures per pad are the whole spec the Creighton order is cut to.

Closest O.W. Lee neighbors: Chalet and Cambria — retired names with their own identification guides. The wider O.W. Lee family is indexed on the hub page.

Fabric options & estimated pricing

New house, new cloth, same tape figures: cotton linen for the everyday reset, tech fabric for uncovered patios — rain beads off, wiping finishes the job — and premium velvet when the new room calls for polish, claws notwithstanding. At the material lineup in the flow every material prices the same behind the identical measured cut.

The post-move order opens at $168 per typical block and moves only with dimensions and foam density, 35D up to 65D — material never bills extra. Checkout is the last word on price; nothing is cut prior to your figures clearing the second read. Every cover unzips for washing.

The Creighton catalog, piece by piece

Creighton is the modular line of the retired catalog — nearly everything it shipped was a sectional block. Left-arm and right-arm lounge chairs; left-arm and right-arm chaise lounges; armless center units; corner units and corner lounge chairs; sectional chaise blocks; a modular ottoman to close an end or float as extra seating. Where other families mixed dining and lounge bodies, Creighton went all-in on reconfigurable deep seating, sold as blocks that bolt together into whatever shape the patio needed that season.

Modularity changes the measuring job, and not in the way people expect. A Creighton order is not one big pad — it is one pad per block, and the seams between blocks are the whole ballgame: each seat figure and each back figure is taken on its own block, seam to seam, so the run meets without ridges. The arms are where figures drift; measure an arm block’s width at the seam it shares with its neighbor, not at the outer roll where the fabric wraps. Chaise blocks carry the sloped leg section, and their front edge rides higher off the frame than the rear — the slope belongs to the figure, so measure along the pad’s own surface, not the rail beneath it.

Creighton against its neighbors: Studio is the other retired modular family, and the two are confused constantly. Creighton blocks read traditional — heavier rails, scroll accents — while Studio runs cleaner, straighter lines; when the frames are apart, the joinery tells you, and when they are assembled, the dealer invoice does. Either way the cut is identical: block figures, seam to seam, per block.

Design roots of the Creighton

Modular owners live with a quiet advantage at replacement time: blocks can be re-cushioned in stages. Rebuild the three seats that face the sunset this season, the corner and chaise next season, and the run still meets — provided every order cuts from figures taken the same way, off the same pads, seam to seam. That consistency is the entire craft of a sectional rebuild, and it costs nothing but a careful ten minutes with the tape before the first order.

Frequently asked questions

Does the OW Lee outlet carry Creighton cushions?

Nothing stocked remains. Creighton is a delisted run: the factory store’s clearance page lists leftover pads as sized, and the dealer route commissions replacements on an 18–20 week ticket. Here, every rebuild is fresh — your dimensions, any of 119 materials.

Will generic cushions fit Creighton dining or lounge pieces?

After a move is the wrong moment to introduce fit problems. O.W. Lee decks are deep and particular — universals clear the width and then fail the depth or loft, and curves end the discussion. Measured replacements hold the original geometry.

What marks a set as Creighton for certain?

The dealer invoice or original order record names the collection; the brass plaque or stamped mark names the maker. Together they carry more weight than any frame detail — retired lines share vocabulary with their era-mates.

What happens when no official sizing exists?

Yes — post-move orders run entirely on owner figures. Width, depth, seam thickness for every block; a second read against the piece count on our end; the build to your numbers.

How much per Creighton replacement piece?

Orders open at $168 for the typical block, scaled by dimensions and foam density across 35D–65D, never by cloth. Confirmation lands before anything is cut.

How quickly do orders go out?

From order-in to boxes-down: 4–7 business days standard build, 3–5 on the rush lane, flat-rate delivery — the move-in rebuild lands inside 3–6 weeks.

What’s built into every commission

• Decade-plus of building to order in-house — the cut, the fill and the sewing all ours, with no brokering and no dropshipping downstream.
• Nothing unrolls ahead of the check: your three figures per pad get a second read, cross-checked against the piece count, and the bench takes it from there.
• No finished inventory intervenes — any cloth, any piece, from the one that matters most to a forty-block run.
• Post-move orders carry the same terms: cuts over ±½″ (±¾″ beyond 36″), wrong cloth, wrong build — remade at no cost.

Creighton replacements from $168 per piece: place the line, tape what moved, confirm the quote.

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Post-move identity in doubt? Send the photos you took and we will fix the name pre-cut. Not Creighton after all? Build any shape, or retrace via the OW Lee page.