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DIY: Transform an Old Wooden Chair (Part 2)

April 4, 2014 By A Spoonful of Sugar - 15 Comments

{DIY PROJECT} Paint a Chair(Sponsored by White Knight Paints)

A few weeks ago, we found an old chair that was on the roadside awaiting the bulk rubbish collection. We bought it home as we had a vision on how we could transform it from someone’s old cast off furniture, into a signature piece that we could use at home and as a photo prop. You can see how we prepared the wooden chair in this post.

The final stage was to spray paint the chair. To do this, the man of the house, moved our cars from the garage and then spread some old sheets (that we use as drop sheets) over the floor of our garage to protect it from the paint. We decided to paint the chair in the garage as it was very windy outside.

He propped the chair on top of an old box to make it easier to get under and around the chair. Then he spray painted the chair. He wore a face mask as the fumes inside the garage were quite strong. He used a full can of White Knight Squirts on the first coat. He allowed the chair to dry which took around an hour. Then sprayed a second coat of paint.

Paint a wooden chair

Squirts is a quick drying, hard wearing, enamel paint. It gave a terrific finish to our chair, with a smooth coverage,  and it looks very professional. It was so easy to use and at around $8.00 a can, it makes for a inexpensive makeover. Squirts comes in a wide range of colours. I think we will be on the lookout for more furniture to paint.

We couldn’t be happier with how our chair has been transformed from an old colonial style wooden chair into a bright, modern chair. It is such a lovely shade of red.

DIY Paint a wooden chair

We have been having fun using our new chair as a photo prop with some of our quilts and sewing projects.

DIY Paint wooden chair

Paint a Wooden Chair DIY

We can’t wait to find some more old furniture to transform.

DIY Project  Paint a Wooden Chair

 

Disclosure: We were provided with the White Knight Rust Guard All Purpose Primer and White Knight Squirts to use in this project. All opinions and photographs are our own.

Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: spray paint

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Comments

  1. Sandie @ crazy'boutquilts says

    April 4, 2014 at 7:02 am

    I love your chair!! I am never lucky at finding discards, but if i ever do, I’ll be bringing it home to make it red too!

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      April 4, 2014 at 7:16 am

      We are so thrilled with how it looks. We now need an aqua chair as well so will be on the hunt for more discards 🙂 We had so much fun positioning it around our home with different quilts etc. It is going to be a well loved piece of furniture.

      Reply
  2. Mrs. Lucky says

    April 4, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    Oh, what a darling! Very clever of you to transform it into such a beautiful chair around the house and a gorgeous photo prop.

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      April 4, 2014 at 5:25 pm

      Thanks Mrs Lucky – we are so pleased with the finished result. We are looking around our home to see what we can spray paint next!

      Reply
  3. Stephanie says

    April 5, 2014 at 3:19 am

    The red chair is fantastic and really will pop in photo-product shoots. I have to ask; any idea what the pattern is for the Blue Sashiko style quilt? — I absolutly LOVE IT!

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      April 5, 2014 at 7:10 am

      Thanks Stephanie. The Sashiko Quilt was one of the first quilts I made back in 2000. You can see more photos of it here: http://aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/2008/03/east-meets-west/ It was based on a pattern in an Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine from around that time. One of the features i love about it is that it has Japanese yen stitched on to it. I was living in USA at the time and asked on a Quilting Board if anyone had any ideas on how I get some coins and a lovely American lady stationed at a military base in Japan sent them to me.

      Reply
      • Stephanie says

        April 5, 2014 at 9:44 pm

        Thank you so much for the reply. The title of the quilt was very helpful in finding some additional pictures to use as a visual to try and duplicate. My Mom came home from Holland last summer with a gorgeous group of blue fabrics. As soon as I saw your picture….I was like “this is it”, this is the pattern I have to use for them.

        Reply
  4. Annette says

    April 5, 2014 at 3:56 am

    Hello! The idea to re-purpose a discard is great! The White Knights products used really made this transformation. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      April 5, 2014 at 7:12 am

      Thanks Annette. It was a fun project.

      Reply
  5. Nat@DearLittleHouse says

    April 5, 2014 at 9:35 am

    What a great colour choice! Love it 🙂 Need to get around to painting a few dingy chairs I have kicking around Dear Little House!

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      April 5, 2014 at 9:57 am

      Thanks Nat. It is very satisfying to see them go from dingy to colourful.

      Reply
  6. Lisa says

    April 7, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    Wow! It looks fabulous! Now I want a red chair too 🙂

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      April 7, 2014 at 9:17 pm

      Thanks Lisa – I am sure it will be appearing in a lot of our photos. So many uses for a red chair.

      Reply
  7. Amy Fahy says

    May 17, 2015 at 6:41 am

    Fantastic! I would love to do this, if I ever find the “right” chair, or have the room in my already cramped house for another piece of furniture! Ha!

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      May 17, 2015 at 9:05 am

      It really makes a statement! I would love an aqua chair now. Just need to find another chair to paint.

      Reply

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