Painting Velvet With Chalk Paint®, Say What?!
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Grungy Galz
Did you know you can paint that velvet chair that granny gave you? Yep, uh-huh, you sure can!! It's CRAZY easy. They key is water, more water and sanding! It's all done with Chalk Paint® Decorative Paint by Annie Sloan.
Here's what I started with...Not that bad, right?
Here's what I started with...Not that bad, right?
There was a couple of stains near the back of the seat and it was missing two corner brackets. The corner brackets were an easy fix, but the stains wouldn't come out :0( Sooo, because I wanted to try painting velvet with Chalk Paint®, this was the perfect piece to give it a try!
I did not measure paint to water... It was lots of water and hardly any paint. After three coats of Chalk Paint® and sanding between each coat I got this!
Doesn't it just blow your mind!!! I'm so happy with it!
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My cousin and his wife live in Lichfield park... They too have five kids... Four sons and a daughter. I'm going out there Saturday. She is a very crafty mama and their house looks like it feel off the pages of country living magazine! I know she goes junking and yard sale treasure hunting too. I'll show her this post as an idea for another way to country-fy!
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I finally got around to painting an old 60s velvet chair. I wet the fabric with a spray bottle of water and then applied two coats of dark chalk paint. It Looks fab but the fabric is quite stiff and crunchy feeling. I figure I have to apply a couple coats of wax to the whole thing but am not sure if the crunchiness will go away or if the wax will transfer to clothing when people sit in it.
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