Painted Desk Chair

My desk chair is sporting a new lighter color.

From the time I first saw this chair, I loved the shape and elegance of it.  But since I bought it new I had not thought about altering its original color.

That was until I started noticing the finish coming off the seat.

I will say I am actually quite dissapointed that after the little use this chair recieve, how easily the factory finish was marred.  These chairs were on sale from Basset.  I got this one on clearance, but the original price per chair was at a price that I would have assumed could handle daily usage.  This chair was not used much, it was brought out for an extra chair at holidays, and that was it.

Initially, I thought of just painting the chair a solid fun color- I settled on yellow. But the yellow just did not work like I wanted, so I went over it with white and sanded down to reveal the yellow and darker finish underneath.

It is a very subtle effect, but really makes a difference.

So what do you think?

-Laurie