I'm so excited to finally share the newest addition to my living room! Last week I showed you guys the office chair that I wanted to update. It's very plain jane and didn't go with the rest of my decor so I wanted to make it gorgeous. I wanted it bright pink but instead of painting it, I wanted to see if spray paint would work. I sprayed a little on the legs of the chair and it set pretty well so I sprayed the remainder of it. Boy oh boy, I shouldn't have done that.
Remember when I talked about shiny/veneer wood? The chair had a gloss coat on it, so when I tried to spray a second coat of the pink I got a million air bubbles.
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Talk about heart break. I can't even explain how upset I was. Not only because the air bubbles ruined my chair, but because I wasted an entire can of spray paint :(
Sooooo, I had to redo everything. I went back a couple steps and sanded everything down.
Sorry for the terrible photo, I don't know why it came out so blurry =/. Anyways after 30 minutes of sanding I rummaged through my paints and grabbed the color I painted my bathroom with.
It's a medium toned gray that I felt would go perfectly with the pink/brown leopard (or is it cheetah?) print.
Ok ok I'll stop blabbing. Alas, the long awaited reveal is here! Check out the before and after!
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What do you think? I'm totally in loveeeee...but that's just me ;)
4 comments:
Wow, that is SASSY! Great job, and I know how that is, I never bother sanding things first and I usually live to regret it. Ugh! Turned out fabulous though!
Hi! It's a beautiful chair. I'm doing a similar proyect. What kind of paint you used? Water based or oil?
Thanks! It's a water based satin paint.
This was loveely to read
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