Chair of Despair

I bought this cute orange chair (Chair of Dispair, CoD) at a yard sale in 1999. I thought I’d recover it, and use it at the makeup table in our bathroom. That didn’t happen. Fast forward to NOW, 2014. The chair has just been in the garage soaking up character; the uglier, the better. I recently took a Paint with Annie Sloan workshop. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I discovered you can use Annie’s paint to cover ugly fabric. Woo HOO, is any fabric uglier than this? Yes. Probably, there are lots of ugly pieces out there, but this is mine.

CoD had a skirt on it; it was very hard to paint and wax. The upholstered portion was easy to do and successful.

Practice makes perfect. Chair-of-Despair is now useful for big parties or meetings. I’ll keep it in the garage for now, and drag it out as needed. Here’s the original Chair of Despair:

Chair of Despair

Here’s the finished product.

Renewed Chair