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Quirky Christmas decor: a winter chair makeover with paint and epsom salt!

December 20, 2013 2 Comments

Back in October, I used scrapbook paper and paint to transform a boring thrift store chair into a spooky Halloween “Sit for a Spell” chair to use as part of my Halloween decor  by our front porch.    I decided to give the Halloween chair a winter holiday makeover and use it as part of my Christmas decor.  It’s quirky, but I like it.

Christmas chair makeover using gold paint and salt!

This chair started out really ratty.  When I got it at the thrift store I knew it had potential, and since spray paint cures so many decorating ills, I knew it could make it over.   A lot of black spray paint and funky scrapbook paper transformed it for Halloween.  I loved that I had the only house in the neighborhood with a black candelabra and a funky black and silver chair on the porch.

I wanted to try and recreate that unique look for Christmas.  (Besides, Handsome Hubby told me to get it out of his garage…)

A Halloween chair gets a Christmas makeover

This makeover just took gold spray paint, spray adhesive and some epsom salt and glitter.

I started by spraying the whole kit and caboodle with the gold paint.  Yes, even paint the fabric seat.  When it was dry, I laid it on its back and coated the seat back with the spray adhesive.  Working quickly, I pressed epsom salt and glitter down onto the chair back.

When dry I had a nice sparkly, frosty effect.  (Which is the best we’re going to get as far as frost goes here in Southern California!)

Frosty winter chair 1

There you have it:  Easy, quirky and definitely unique Christmas decor.

Click here to see more of my spray paint projects and click here to see more projects that use epsom salt.

(ps: I’m going to see if HH lets me keep it around and do something with it for Valentine’s Day…)

Filed Under: Christmas, Crafts, decor, epsom salt, glitter, Holidays, spray paint, winter

Comments

  1. Amy Korinke says

    October 16, 2018 at 10:43 AM

    What about the seat?

    Reply
    • Vivienne says

      October 16, 2018 at 10:59 AM

      Hi Amy… I’m not sure what you mean when you ask, “what about the seat?” The entire chair, including the fabric seat was spray painted gold, then the epsom salt and glitter were adhered to the back of the chair.

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