It’s time for another do-over project.

Usually I call for a do-over when an item isn’t selling, but in this case I’m making over an item that I originally painted for myself and used for many years.

This is your classic child sized schoolhouse chair.  It started out looking like this …

I used this chair regularly both while painting furniture, and also while taking photos of furniture.  It put me right at the perfect height for both.

Then back in 2017 I decided to give it a paint job using Fusion’s Putty.

That made it more presentable to have around the house when I wasn’t using it.

But that was 8 years ago!  Wow, time flies.  It had gotten pretty beat up, splattered with paint, and just basically dirty since then.  Furthermore, I rarely actually use it these days so it was just collecting dust out in my workshop.

So I decided to give it a fresh look before listing it for sale.

I started by giving it a good cleaning first, then I sanded down the stenciled design on the seat and gave the entire chair a couple of coats of Dixie Belle’s Blue Grass.

The Blue Grass is from Dixie Belle’s line of chalk style paint, and it went on beautifully over that original Fusion acrylic paint.

Once the paint dried, I sanded the edges of the chair to distress the paint back to that Putty color.

This is always something to keep in mind when you paint over another paint color and you like to distress your pieces.  That original color is going to show.  I think it works on this chair though.

Next up I added a portion of the I.O.D. Label Ephemera transfer to the seat.

I finished it off with a coat of Dixie Belle’s clear wax, and then I staged some photos in my garden using some vintage books.

This chair is going in the pile of merch that I’m readying for my fall Carriage House sale.  I’m tentatively aiming for the first Saturday in October for the sale, so if you’re local, pencil it in!

But I’ll also list it on my ‘available for local sale‘ page in case any of you locals are interested in it now.

As always, thank you to Dixie Belle Paint Co for the products used in this makeover!