My first PARA Paints Blog Crew project: The little chair makeover

Finally, my little chair is all done and ready to make its debut :-) And this is also my first PARA Paints Blog Crew project – Woot!

It’s been a while since I started this project, so here’s a reminder of how my little chair looked when I first got it from my cousin’s wife:

It had been sanded down except for that one side of the front leg. I used that colour as my inspiration for the new paint colour. I decided on PARA’s P5168-51 Time Will Sell.

The chair most likely had a gut wound seat, but I have no idea where to buy gut or how to make a gut wound seat, so I opted to go with a cushioned seat. I already had this fabric that matches the paint colour perfectly.

I wanted to preserve the wood with its bits of original paint here and there, so I decided to just paint some accents – the inside of the legs and the top of the back.

But I didn’t really love it – it looked kind of busy to me. I mentioned a while back that this chair is most likely an antique Habitant chair, made in Quebec around 1860. All of the Habitant chairs I’ve found online had originally been painted. Sometimes it’s cool to give an old piece a modern twist, but in this case, I decided to go back to the chair’s roots and just paint the whole thing Time Will Sell. Except for the inside of the front leg, I kept that just as it was :-)

I lightly sanded the edges to add just a touch of age and for the wood to peek out just a bit.

See how non-uniform the rungs are? :-)

I love the circle fabric {thanks hubby for the upholstery job!}

Voila! My new old Habitant chair!

Thanks PARA Paints for selecting me for your Blog Crew – this small project is just the start, I have lots of big projects coming up soon! And thanks to Susan for the chair and Heather for the fabric :-)

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