Faux Grain Sack Stripes and Vintage Chairs

This summer a couple of estate sales provided us several old wooden chairs. Two were in ready to use shape.

They needed cleaning and a bit of updating.

The white chair, after a fresh repainting with CeCe Caldwell's Simply White was given a faux grain sack set of stripes across the seat

The dark brown chair with twisted wire stretcher supports was lightly sanded only where needed and spots of white paint were chipped up with a thin knife blade. Wiped the chair down, waxed and polished.

 Any wax would have been fine, I tried out CeCe Caldwells Aging Wax but I suspect it would have been better used on an ornate frame for contrasting shades.

I had such fun painting a small box white and adding faux grain sack stripes a few weeks ago so tried the stripes on the white chair.

The chair got 2 coats of Simply White to cover the old worn white paint.

I used a dark blue paint mixed with CeCe Caldwells Chesapeake Blue for the stripes. Picked up some yellow frog tape to make sure I got good edges. Used the 1/4" Rona green tape as well. 

Surprise - pulled tape off right away and removed a small chunk of white/navy to reveal turquoise (a colour that was UNDER the white the chair was painted prior to getting painted Simply White. It took a bit of very fine artist brush dabbing and smoothing to repair. The green tape has a much different 'pull off' than the yellow frog tape.

Finished the white chair with Minwax Polycrylic. I love the faux grain sack look and have been finding many examples on Pinterest.

My front porch mums are beginning to fade so I cut several stems to make in indoor bouquet in a handless silver teapot.

Thanks for visiting.

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