DIY Chair Makeover

I was searching around on Pinterest one day and saw a picture of a DIY office chair makeover and Kristin and I started talking back and forth about how to do it. Matt told me one day that his Papa Perry had a lot of chairs down at his furniture store that would be good to re-do. I went down there and fell in love with one of them! I like the style, it's rocking/swivel ability, and liked the fact that it had handrails. I asked Perry if I could have it and he of course said yes :) Matt said that the one I picked out was actually the chair he used to sit in when he spent time down at the store when he was little. So it's cool and sentimental.

Anyways, one weekend Shannon and Kristin were in and I asked Kristin if she would help me re-do this chair. Little did I know, that it would take more than just the two of us to do this "little" project. Kristin, Matt and I started taking it apart and then went to get fabric for it. When we got back, we all started working on different parts of it. Clay, being the great brother-in-law that he is, along with Kim's helped, offered to spray paint the individual parts of the chair. We used clear plastic Krylon to start (1 can), covered it with regular "Blue Ocean Breeze" Krylon spray paint (2 cans), and then coated it again with the clear plastic paint. Krylon didn't make the plastic spray paint in the color I wanted, so this was our solution and so far it seems to have worked well! Kristin and I worked on putting the fabric on the chair with hot glue, and duct tape (a little ghetto...I know.. haha). We were going to use staples, but the the plastic backing of the chair was too hard and the staples wouldn't go through it. While we were doing this, we made sure not to pull the fabric too tight so it would have a little room to stretch when someone sits in it. Finally, Shannon, Matt, Kristin, and I worked to assemble the chair back together. Needless to say, I LOVE this chair and am so thankful for everyone's help! :)