Spray Painting Wrought Iron Furniture
I’ve had some rusty looking wrought iron furniture staring at me from my backyard for years now. It came with the house. And it came from 1960-something.
2 things inspired me to give my wrought iron table and chairs an upgrade:
- My friend Anna (@ohhhbetsy) told me I should spray paint it turquoise. Genius, I hadn’t even considered spray paint!
- I saw this picture on Pinterest and it gave me the inspirational direction I needed:
Spray painting is my new favorite thing! It gives things an instant makeover, is inexpensive, and fairly simple. Here’s how we did it:
Picking the Colors
I wanted the exact same colors in the picture above. I was surprised however to find the fairly limited selection of spray paint colors available at the home improvement store. I expected lots more options. I wasn’t in the mood to wait and I didn’t even think about searching online (heaven forbid). In one quick Google search I did find this great site that has loads of color options: Krylon
Note: choose from the matte finish colors. They look better.
Sand It
You need to make sure you give iron furniture (or iron anything) a light sanding before you put anything on it. You can use a sponge block sanding pad like these little guys from 3M.
Wash It
My husband insisted that we didn’t need to spray the furniture down but I didn’t want little dust flecks and spider webs sealed into my furniture with spray paint. I sprayed all of the furniture down with the house and let it dry completely before we applied primer.
Prime It
We sprayed a light coating of primer on the chairs since they were all ready a red color that we wanted to hide completely.
Painting
In order to NOT spray paint our lawn a festival of colors (and to save our backs from hunching over) we put the chairs up on saw horses.
Finished Product
Voila! Indeed, this is the first time in my life I have felt like a DIY Goddess. Bust out the spray paint and you can too!
Tags: backyard, DIY, patio furniture, Pinterest, projects, remodeling, spray paint, wrought iron, wrought iron furniture, wrought iron paint
Your pretty chairs has given me inspiration to paint mine. How lovely!
Good job! Well done!
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I like your colors. Did I miss seeing them at your house?
Laurie
They were tucked up in the gazebo – where I now eat lunch everyday.
Look at you go! These are so yummy fantastic!
p.s. pls do share the exact colors you chose as i love the combo and have my own wrought iron furniture to make-over (hope you don’t mind a copy-cat!!). currently, our set is a VERY outdated green.
I’ve just got to find the cans!
Stand by!
Loving this! Did you share the colors you used? I couldn’t find on here. Thanks! Amy
I’m glad you commented! I had thought I came back and posted – but I didn’t!
I used Rust-Oleum “Painters Touch” spray paint. I selected all satin finsihes. Some of the colors I used were “Green Apple”, “Colonial Red”, and “Grape” I need to find the exact color for the blue and yellow I used (can’t find the old cans. The satin finish looks better in my opinion.
WOW! What an update!!!! Your new furniture looks amazing.
These are awesome,I would love to do that to my white wicker chairs and table but I’m so scared I’ll regret it.
As the Nike commercials like to tell you: JUST DO IT!
Oh that makes me want to spray paint. Those are way too cute!!
Ooo, so happy! Love it.
You rock star! Now I need to find some wrought iron chairs to DIY!
Those are awesome colors. Makes me wish I had some old furniture to revamp!
Those chairs are so much fun!
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Well done!
I love this. My metal deck furniture is getting all rusty and I was thinking that I’d have to replace it next year. NOT SO. I’m thinking red would be fabulous.
Nice job, DIY Ninja.
Love the colors! Just like new furniture.