Roadside Chair Makeover

If you follow me on Instagram, you most likely saw my exciting new addition. No, not a person, a new chair!! I fell in love the moment we drove our bikes by it. I had to go straight home, jump in the car and head over to pick it up.

I knew just what I would use it for.

I have been sitting on a bar stool to do my crafting. And although it isn’t too bad, it is too high for when I sew. I needed a normal chair so that I could get my sew on in my new crafting space (more on that coming soon). So this chair got a fabulous makeover to match the rest of my craft space.

I started by priming the whole chair, and then doing a white coat because it would be showing thru in the stripes.

I then taped off my stripes. I made marks every 2 inches on both outsides as well as down the middle. I then met the outside ones, to the inside one above.

The top stripes I just eyeballed….they didn’t turn out even, but oh well! haha

I then spray painted the whole chair this fun teal blue color. It is Valspar’s Exotic Sea
While the paint was still slightly tacky, but mostly dry, I pealed off the tape.

It looked amazing! I was so happy with it, but wanted to do a little distressing. Well, lesson learned. DO NOT distress with a little one around. My baby spilled the wood stain on the seat and got all over my white stripes, which quickly turned grey .

So the distressing turned out great, and although I then had to hand paint some of the stripes again, I am so happy with how this beaut looks.

I cant wait to show it to you in it’s new crafty home…but for that you are gonna have to wait!