I picked this chair up for $6 at Goodwill because it was the perfect size to coordinate with the oak desk that I also made over. The chair had dark brown glossy paint and a dirty yellow, textured vinyl seat. It was the definition of drab!

I began by removing the chair cushion, and then gave the chair two even coats of Rust-Oleum white gloss lacquer spray.

Once the lacquer was dry, I brought the chair in the house to give the legs a "gold dipped" finish. To get the "dipped" look I measured and used a pencil to mark of the bottom 3.5" of the each leg. I propped the chair upside down to give me easy access to the legs for painting. With a soft bristle art brush, I painted right up to pencil lines using Rust-Oleum's Metallic Accents paint in Gold Flake. I applied the paint in thin coats, and it took three coats for me to get the coverage I wanted on the chair legs.

Next up, I recovered the seat cushion using blue and white upholstery fabric.

I wanted to add one final detail, so I decided to add two campaign corners to the back of the chair. For my campaign hardware, I purchased a set of stainless steel flat corner angle brackets, and then painted them gold - first priming them, then using the same Metallic Accents paint in Gold Flake that I used for the chair legs. You can also buy gold corner braces, but the stainless ones were less expensive and painting them myself allowed me to match them to the chair legs exactly. I installed the corner brackets at the top corners of the chair back and called the drab to fab makeover complete!

1920s Desk Chair Goes Chic