It's a pretty Prins life: Double Dipper

Happy Tueday! If you follow me on Instagram you have seen a few clues to todays project. Maybe a gray and white striped chair leg and a pic of ikat fabric?? Well you probably guessed I was working on a little chair redo. Back in my early DIY days I re did this chair from a cherry finish to the black paint you see now.

I have changed the cover a few times, but this pic shows it in its beautiful original moss green velvet. I know you are probably saying why would she even want to touch that beauty?? But as you can see it is far past its glory days! As you have noticed I have been working on my office and this chair sits in here as an extra. I knew that I wanted to paint the chair white, but I also knew I wanted to give it some character. I am loving the dipped leg chair trend and I found a picture of a double dipped leg I loved on Pinterest!! So began my quest to come up with something similar. I sanded, primed and spray painted the chair in a white semi gloss.

At this point it was starting to really look promising. This is when it gets a little trickier. I tried two different methods for the leg dipping. The first was to tape off the legs approx. 12 inches up and wrapping the part I wanted to stay white white in garbage bags.

This was not exact and or perfect as you can clearly see. This worked pretty well except for a few stray spots that didn't get fully covered by the plastic bags. I resprayed a few small spots, but here it is with just the gray legs.

After two days of fully drying I decided to attempt the metallic champagne portion. I found a beautiful color that was not to gold and not to silver. Hence the champagne name. I taped off the legs leaving approimately two inches of the grey showing and lightly sanded the portion I would be spraying.

Then on a beautiful afternoon off from work I sat out on my deck and painted the legs. It took quite a few coats, but it seemed to cover really well. The tape came off ok. I did have one spot pull a little of the champagne part off, but I was able to touch it up relatively easily. Aren't these some beautiful legs!!! I have to say I was extremely pleased with the color and how they turned out.

Here are the paints I used on the frame.

Now, on to the seat cover. I searched the fabric store as well as a few T.J.'s and I brought home a shower curtain, a yard of fabric and a king duvet cover. All would have been great options, but the ikat duvet was perfect!!! It had a little gold/yellow, a pop of blue and an almost identical dark gray to match the legs. I used the front to one of the shams so I still have a duvet cover, and another sham if I ever want to use the fabric again. Which may happen because I have fallen madly in love with it!!