Why buy a new chair for the activity desk when you have a crumby, beaten down, old chair with red faux leather upholstery to enjoy?
And Stephanie to reupholster and paint it.
How To:
Paint:
1. Sand with fine grit sand paper until it is rough to touch, or at least the shine is dulled.
2. Prime.
3. Paint with Living Room trim paint - 2 coats.
Note: In areas, like the flower carving in chair back, the "stipple" method is best. Stippling basically means using your brusk to poke and push the paint into the nooks. It's a "get it into there however you can" method. It just happens to have a fancy name for it.
Upholstery:
This sucker had two layers of nasty fabric, the first of which is the faux red lather, and the second was a turquoise vinyl grasscloth pattern I've never seen and won't find in nature.
1. Unscrew seat from chair (flip it over, there will be screws from the wood frame of the seat into the base of the chair).
2. Carefully remove nails with a hammer. Recycle nails for new upholstery.
3. I reused the foam padding. Cut new fabric (a chocolate colored, staing resistant micro suede) with at least 3" extra around perimeter of seat.
4. Pulling from opposite ends of fabric at a time, nail to wood base of seat. For example, if we imagine a NSEW compass on the seat, nail from North and South simultaneously and start from middle out. Then do the same between East and West. Finish at the corners, folding over fabric as needed for a tight finish.
5. Rescrew seat onto chair base in the same holes.
6. Sit on it and finger paint.
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