Painting Fabric With Paint

It was a dark and cloudy day.....  (really)

I was out of scheduled posts......  (which took 3 months to happen)

At 6:53 the night before, I read a post from Andi at Delusions of Ingenuity........

And by noon the next day I was painting wing back chairs with Annie Sloan Old White Chalk paint and CeCe Caldwells' Virginia Chestnut, on a quest to use up all my different remnants of paints.

Also very skeptical of the process, but I trust Andi's opinion.

The two wing backs are old dining room chairs in a burgundy fabric with sage green around the edge of the leaves.  The pattern is raised with a slight texture.

They are 20 years old.  However not one spot on them is coming undone, although the fabric on the seats is getting thin.

None of the piping is loose, still taut and firm.  I don't know what kind of glue they used but I need some of it for my 20 year spots that are no longer taut and firm!

Since they were so well made, I wanted to have them recovered by the same place I ordered them at all those years ago.

Not happening.  The cost was going to be more than they cost new, even without knowing a fabric choice.

So I am painting the fabric and covering the seat myself.

At first I was going to cover them in drop cloth to match the dining room chairs I re-did, but that didn't seem to be first on my list of jobs to tackle so I figured I'd give the paint brush a chance.

I have not decided if the wing back will get some graphics other than a grain sack stripe.

The chairs were almost out the door, so I thought why not be brave like Andi and try painting the fabric.  Nothing lost other than paint if they don't turn out.

Check out Andi's awesome chair transformation {HERE}

I will need to see how far I can stretch the remaining old white, and Virginia Chestnut paint.  Two chairs, two less-than-half quarts of each.

If it works there will be a reveal yet this week.

If it doesn't work I have to go shopping for two chairs.

One coat down......