My painted chair project - Pinterest Inspiration

I found this tutorial on pinterest “the painted chair” http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/before-amp-after-painted-uphol-144133 I wanted a chair for a studio prop like this but could never find on in my budget that I liked the color of,  so I found this chair on craigslist for $25 (please forgive my bad iphone pictures)

I thought, I can paint this chair and if I mess up it was only $25 right?  I then doubted that it would come out good and called a local furniture reupholstering company to find out how much it would cost to re do it, “how much?” $225 and that’s if I supplied the fabric.  Ok so painting the chair it would be.

I followed the instructions on the website above but instead of using household latex paint for the remaining steps I used acrylic paint the entire time.  I used 1 part fabric medium to 1 part acrylic paint then I added water, I don’t remember exactly how much water but I went for a very watery consistency. I ended up only using half a bottle of each on this chair, I kept my paint in a Tupperware container and closed it after each coat and that one batch lasted the entire 4 coats.

I sprayed the fabric very well with water before I started and painted a very light coat for the first coat.  I let it dry (it actually didn’t take too long to dry) Then repeated the steps 3 more times, so I did a total of 4 light coats).  The fabric didn’t feel like it was painted at all and the design on the fabric comes through very nicely

My last step was to paint the wood surface, I used white spray paint,  this to me was the hardest part, I had to tape off all the fabric areas which was a pain, if I chose to do this again I would find a chair that didn’t have so many wood surfaces.

And the final product, which I have to say I’m pretty happy with, since I’m not very crafty.

Before and after