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Painting leather with Fusion Mineral Paint
Greys Stain & Finishing Oil

Painting leather with Fusion Mineral Paint

Finding an accent leather chair to suit your interiors can be pricey, however painting one you find or already have is a great inexpensive way to have the accent chair you want, find out how painting leather withΒ Fusion Mineral PaintΒ is simple and easy to do.

Supplies needed

What you will need for this project:

  1. FusionsΒ TSP Alternative
  2. Staalmeester brush
  3. Fusion Mineral Paint inΒ Ash
  4. Stain and Finishing Oil Ebony
  5. Chip brush
  6. Medium gritΒ sandingΒ sponge

First, clean your leather really well with Fusion’sΒ TSP Alternative, and a clean rag, for more information onΒ how to use TSP clickΒ here. Once it’s clean and dry apply a thin coat ofΒ FusionΒ with a good quality brush like aΒ Staalmeester. Give the first coat of paint a good drying time before applying your second coat.

Around the edges of the chairs where the leather meets the wood, we opted to use aΒ Staalmeester ONE Series Flat BrushΒ to make a neat edge. The finished look is so good it almost looks like the leather was this colour to begin with.

FusionΒ has a built-in Top Coat so there is no need to add anything when the paint is dry. If you’d like a little more sheen you could add one of our fabulousΒ waxes.

Sometimes there can be a tacky feeling after painting leather, it is rare but it can happen. There is little that can be done to prevent it from being tacky, it is one of the risks of painting leather. It may, or may not happen!

Staining the wood

The warm-toned wood was changed using ourΒ Stain and Finishing OilΒ in Ebony, which was applied using a cheap throwaway chip brush,Β  the wood was first given a light scuff sand using a medium-fine grit sandpaper and then 2 coats ofΒ EbonyΒ applied with a day between coats to allow the SFO to dry properly.

To prep the wood, we simply cleaned it withΒ TSP, and then applied the stain and finishing oil in Ebony over top and did not wipe back, leaving full solid coverage. This dries in about 12 hours.

Voila! A new-looking contemporary accent chair.

Have you painted leather? we’d love to see your projects over on our Facebook group Paint it Beautiful.

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