Lawn Chair Makeover

When I married my husband and we moved in to our forever home we merged our stuff. Now granted, not all my stuff was in great shape but nothing was as bad as his lawn chair.

He has had this lawn chair for over 15 years and no matter what convincing argument I came up with he refused to part with it. 

I know...its not really that bad. Definitly better than the ugly recliners that some men come with. So, for that reason I decided to figure out a way to make it look better (and be safer). With a little spray paint and some new webbing I turned that old lawn chair into a beautiful piece of outdoor furniture. Enjoy!

  

First I took the old webbing off. I was able to reuse the webbing clips.

 These are the old ones but you can purchase them here. 

After removing the old webbing I took these picture 

for the blog but also as a reminder of how to use them later.

Next I spray painted the metal frame...

Note: I tried spray painting directly onto the metal but it scrapped off really easy...not good. I then decided to start over using a layer of primer followed by a layer of the blue spray paint followed by a layer off clear glossing top coat. It worked...no scrapping off when I did the re-webbing.

Then I re-webbed the chair with new webbing. I bought mine at the local hardware store but you can buy it here.

And here it is again all decked out for the 4th!

 

 Thanks for visiting,

 

 

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