French Chair

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A French Chair named Fantine

 I found this chair at an estate sale recently.  

I knew it had great potential.

The BEFORE photo makes this chair look much better than it actually did.

The fabric was faded, ripped and smelled like Aqua Net and Ben-Gay.

The upper fabric was glued and stapled to the chair.  I found it was very difficult to remove.  

I removed the front top completely, after removing the seat.

 Under the seat, I found 4 signatures on each corner. 

 I love making up stories in my mind about oddities like this.  

I imagine they were from 4 loving ladies that recovered this chair for their mother or grandmother, 

a couple of decades ago.

 I left the back fabric on the top.  It was not removable without tearing up the foam.

Moving on to the painting technique...

First of all,

I painted the whole chair with Miss Mustard Seed's Ironstone.

 As you can see, it peeled and flaked where it wanted to.

That's part of the magic of milk paint.

 Next, I washed the entire chair (in a very watered down paint technique) using ASCP "Creme".

Then I mixed a little ASCP "Duck Egg" with the "Creme" and using a detail brush, 

I painted in the accents on the chair (see above photo)

I lightly sanded over the paint to allow alittle more wood to show through.

 I covered the seats with this beautiful fabric from Premiere and

I used this pretty trim around the edge.  

It covered my hot glue globs ;)

 And here it sits in my foyer.

Steve says it's his favorite piece that I've ever painted...

and I've painted a lot of pieces!

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