Me, reading the Internet. Every. Day.
Reupholstering furniture with paint? I know this idea seems a little crazy, because even I thought it was insane at first. Seriously? Using a latex paint on furniture fabric? Eew. It sounded horrible. How could it be possible? Talk about ruining your furniture.
That was pretty much my internal dialog while I quickly clicked over AND READ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE about it. It’s a little more involved than just slapping on the paint. And ultimately, as with everything else I read the Internet, I decided I could do this (see right).
The original: Poor, ugly little fella.
So I did. The best part? IT WORKS! It actually, really works.
I have two chairs — potentially nice chairs that are super ugly that I have every intention of doing something with — but I didn’t want to use the chairs as my test cases. I’m gutsy, but also a big chicken.
While thrifting a few weeks back I stumbled upon a faded, velvet footrest for $3.50. With some latex paint, textile medium, water and patience (mostly my husband’s, what with me doing this on our front porch and all), I was able to transform what had lived in someone’s great-grandma’s living room for about 40 years into something kinda chic and funkified.
Traci
Traci Arbios is a founder of TheFullMoxie.com. She also loves cheese. LOVES. E-mail her at traci@thefullmoxie.com
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How cute that foot stool turned out!! I saw it when it was a work in progress, and since I don’t have much of an eye for design – couldn’t picture it. I love it! (I hope it’s okay for your Mom to make a positive comment ) (:
Thank you dear reader who is entirely impartial and doesn’t know me at all. You probably also love me bestest of all the writers on this site and as well as all of writerland. I understand. What’s not to love? It’s likely due to my general good looks, keen intelligence and general humble nature — all of which I got from my mother. :^)
Absolutely!!
Great tutuorial! I wonder if the fine details could be airbrushed. I know somebody who’d be all over a furniture project like this.