Back in May I wrote a guest post for Kari @ Newlyweds on a Budget – All about Re-Habbing, Re-doing, Re-Purposing a Salon Chair for my Little Sister (Cassie) ‘s Salon.
Her salon is getting much closer to being done than when we worked on this chair last Spring. My Dad has been busy working hard at it and I’ve gotta be honest, I’m a bit jealous I haven’t had the chance to get over there and see the progress. You better believe when I do – pics will be coming your way!
For now I thought I’d share with you again that project.
By the way Cass, I think we are due for another project for your Salon! I know you have walls but now you need some art for those walls!!!
Here’s Cass & her chair… the chair wasn’t horrible but she was eager to personalize this one for her salon and give it a fresh updated look.
Our plan was to paint all of the metal and re-apolster the bottom seat cushion as well as the back cushion. We decided to leave the arm rests alone because they were in pretty good shape and I thought the contrast of her fabric with the brown would look best. (Plus, I’ll be honest, I was terrified to work with that arm rest!)
She picked up this AWESOME fabric @ Joanne’s -
It’s a zebra print with black, sliver and a touch of brown.
Off to the races!
We started off rubbing the base with steel wool to even out the rust spots and edges
to get it ready for the primer.
While she was working on the base, I started disasembling the chair.
This is what years of cutting hair will do to your chair…YUCK!!!! At this point we couldn’t stop laughing about the ridiculousness of us disasembling this old chair on her front step. We were pretty certain anyone driving by thought we were insane!
We also decided to remove the rubber piece around the foot pump. It was not looking so hot…
Since the wind was picking up and was whipping the plastic in our faces, we moved into the garage to start spray painting the primer on the base as well as the cage that holds the seat. Probably safer place!
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We used a basic Krylon primer.
After two coats of primer we started working on re-apolostering the seat cushion. My staple gun has three prongs and most of her outlets in her house only have two so we took the seat cushion to the hallway next to her bathroom. Figures. So here we are on the floor crammed in the hallway, trying to lay out this fabric, cut it and not bang our heads together!
We laid out the fabric and cut around approximately 6″from the edge of the cushion. It was then that we realized we really weren’t sure what we were doing! Sitting on the floor, staple gun in hand, we finally watched a Youtube video and got to cracking.
Tip: Start by stapling one staple on each of the four sides and then work
the fabric by pulling it tight from the first staple.
Finally after lots of chocolate, a bit of arguing and lots of laughing, we went back to spray the color.
Cassie picked a Satin Nickel from the Brushed Metallic line @ Krylon. LOVE it!
We let that dry overnight, and the next day we finished
everything off with the Shimmering Silver also from Krylon.
This stuff is AWESOME! I wasn’t so sure about it at first but ended up falling in LOVE! It has the perfect amount of shimmer and also helped hide a few imperfections along the way!
We still had to finish the back cushion which was smaller and a bit curved;
that did serve to be a bit more challenging. But between some more chocolate and a little bit of sisterly aggravation, we nailed it! (Okay, more like stapled it!)
Finally we were able to start reassembling… ![:)]()
Almost done…
Viola!!!
I’m so excited for Cass as she builds her business & I look forward to watching it grow!
