bright and bold chair: before and after

14 March 2011

I told you all that we are going bold and bright in my daughter’s room. You remember the $3.99 Goodwill chairs? Here is what we did with 2 of them for her room:
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Re-covering chairs like this is easy peasy.
1. Remove the screws from the bottom of the chair with a screwdriver or drill.
2. Peel back the top fabric and see 3 decades of fabric underneath
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3. Take your new fabric, fold, and staple with a heavy duty staple gun (no one is going to be looking underneath your chairs)
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4. Replace screws
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Almost forgot~
On painting the chair:
1. wipe it down with liquid sandpaper (found at home improvement stores, walmart, etc)march 2011 116 2. Give it a coat of spray paint primer
3. give it a couple of light coats of spray paint (we used Krylon cherry red)
chair collage
I didn’t know how my neutral, safe self would handle bright and bold,  but I’m kinda liking it…
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