Painted Fabric Upholstered Wing back chair (Pottery Barn knockoff)

I love wing back chairs as these are big, comfy, best place to curl up with a good book and nice music. I have been eyeing on this thatcher upholstered wingback chair from Pottery Barn to add to guest bed room for a while. Price tag always deterred me.

Source : Pottery Barn Thatcher upholstered wingback

Someone I know for a while, upgraded their family room furniture and were planning to get rid of beautiful wing back chairs. I picked up chairs, loaded these babies into our van and came home happily. They were in good shape, the fabric was little faded but no rips and best of all, these were FREE. I had two options, either upholster the chairs or paint the fabric. Since the fabric was in a good condition, I decided to paint the fabric. Yes, paint the fabric upholstery :)

This is how it looks today and how it looked before

One more comparing with inspiration and my painted chair.

I could wash the cushion cover and rest of the chair was cleaned per these details . There are plenty of tutorials in the blog world on how to paint the upholstery. I followed the instructions from this post from hypheninteriors.

Love the outcome. Hubby liked it so much that he wants the other chair also to be painted. I have other plans for that chair :)

Here are few photoes during the process.

First coat barely made any difference. I felt like I made terrible mistake, but decided to carry on. My little ones encouraging words kept me going.

After the second coat. I started to like the way the chair looked.

After final coat

I normally work on one project at a time and never start on the other before finishing. This project was an exception. It got pushed around so much. I had started this before summer vacation started, I am happy that its finally done.

Here it is in the Guest bedroom.

One more from the guest room...

Have you painted any fabric upholstery?

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