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Stop by your local flea market or neighborhood tag sale to find a couple (or a bunch) of plain wooden chairs. The best chairs for this project will have a dull, un-glossy finish.
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Give them a good wipe-down. Wash with clean warm water and detergent (liquid dish soap would work great). Let them dry.
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Working one chair at a time, cordon off two sections of the chair with painter's tape, one on the back and one on the seat. This should be the biggest paint layer on each section, roughly 1/3 of the chair's seat or back.
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Now the fun begins. Choose your base color layer — it should be the darkest (we went with Calypso SW 6950) — and lay it down. A mini roller and a sponge brush will work well for this. Peel off the painter's tape while the paint is still wet (this prevents chipping), and let this layer dry.
TIP: Brush away from the edge of the tape into the section you want to color to help keep the edge crisp when you peel the tape back up.
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Create 1–2 more color sections by blocking off new sections of the chair with more tape strips. We got the look we were looking for by using lighter colors there than with the base layer, namely Dishy Coral SW 6598 and Belize SW 6945.
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Now, lay down your second and third colors.
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Peel off the tape and let these layers dry for a happy geometric reward. We decided to create some isosceles realness here but you could easily do the same thing with multi-tonal colors and horizontal lines to create a sophisticated, happy gradient.
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Emerald® paint and primer in one by Sherwin-Williams is great for easy, long-lasting projects like this. They're good for happy walls, too (we're looking at you, Swimming SW 6764).
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