Mary's first furniture rehab attempt

The idea of painting furniture started with my daughter introducing me to an interesting thing called "pinterest". You have probably heard of it. And you probably joined it years before I ever found it.I became caught up in the idea of painting and rescuing old furniture. This was my first attempt at "furniture rehab" as I began to call it. I found a chair at a local thrift store for $2.50. Here are the before and after pictures. I'm not at all happy with the result but I thought I would start out honest and show the good, the bad and the ugly(this is both bad and ugly)  I now see the chair looked better before the ghastly gloss red spray paint! 

thrift store chair before

before

chair painted and lightly distressed, seat recovered

The redeeming factor for this chair is the cute fabric I covered the seat with.And also the fact that I have learned a lot with each piece of furniture I have painted.

Things I learned from the thrift store chair: 

• prep is important
• spray paint is not going to give me a quality finish
• gloss paint is bad bad bad
• think the piece through before you start painting!