DIY OLD Chair Upcycle

This old dining chair has been in the family for over 70 years.

It has worn its natural varnished oak, and it's been dressed up in white and then grey chalk paint in a French Country style, with the seat fabrics changing from tapestry, to butterfly embossed linen, then to tropical palms.

But now it is time for yet another upcycle!

But this time we will be completely funking up the colour palette.

This chair is going to be painted bright banana yellow.

To upcycle the chair into something new I needed:

Sandpaper

Primer

Paint

Fabric to recover the seat

A staple gun and staples

After a sand, and prime.

The yellow paint was applied.

Then it was a serious matter of 'careful what you wish for!'

The yellow was BRIGHT!

(It looked good on the paint swatch!)

I had my little OMG moment.

Then sanded and repainted it adding white paint to the original yellow.

The yellow now has a lime-green undertone. Eeek!

I thought, well it will grow on me!

But it didn't!

Third time lucky with the colour after adding orange to the said paint I was finally happy with the colour.

The seat was recovered with a cushion cover I already had in my stash.

Removing the layers of fabric and staples took some work before the new fabric was stapled on.

To become a yellow tropical-themed funky kitchen chair.

The chair now has a new lease on life once more.

For the full blog post about this chair, visit https://miabellapassion.blogspot.com/2024/10/diy-old-chair-upcycle.html