Give New Life to Your Faded Sofa for $5.00

Jodi
by Jodi
1 Material
$5
3 Days
Easy
This is our brown micro-suede 3 piece sectional sofa. It was in our sun room. As you can see the sun did a great job fading the fabric which was exposed to the windows and sun.
Our comfy sectional sofa wrecked by the sun!! Only the back and top were faded. The sofa was otherwise fine.
We didn't know it was faded till the movers delivered it. Or I would have left it and not moved it. Hum what to do?? I decided to spray brown rite dye on the fabric. What did I have to lose? 1. I poured the rite dye into a spray bottle, I did not dilute the dye. 2. I placed cardboard from the moving boxes under the sofa to protect our new floors which you can see. 3. I let the sofa dry over night. 4. I sprayed the sofa again the next day and followed the same process a 3rd time. 5. Be sure to wash out the spray bottle between applications. I used dollar store bottles and did need to use the second spray bottle. In this picture you can see the before and after. While its not perfect it is 90% better then it was. Only problem is if you lean over the fabric, you may wear a little of the brown dye. In the last picture you can see our new sofa/dining table placed behind the sofa along with the dogs crate. No more leaning. This sofa is so comfortable and you can wipe up the kids and dogs food and drink spills, so we did not want to replace it for now.
After picture of sofa dining table behind.
Suggested materials:
  • Spray bottles, Rite Brown fabric dye, floor protector, water clean up.   (Craft store and dollar store)
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  • Anita Anita on Oct 21, 2018

    Yes Doing it today! I do have a question. Why would the dye come off while leaning over the sofa? Doesn't that mean it would also get on your clothes from the other parts of the sofa? Why isn't it dry or won't dry when you lean in it?

    Thx. Anita

  • Maryanne Margiotta Maryanne Margiotta on Jul 31, 2020

    Great job! Looks good!

    I'm looking for a table for behind the couch... I love yours! Where did you get it?

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