Hey there CSI readers!  I’m Barbara from Chase the Star and I’m thrilled to share my Rocking Chair Up-cycle tutorial with you today!Â
Recently my friend asked me to breathe a little ‘life’ into her dilapidated rocking chair. Â She’d kept it in her back yard for a few years, where it got rained on and just beat down by the elements.
Even one of its legs had come undone; this one needed some major surgery to bring it back to the land of the living.
Oh yeah, I was so up or this challenge, BRING IT ON!
Here’s a quick recap on how this ugly duckling became a beautiful swan!
1.  This chair had a lot of weather damage, so I had to sand it down with an orbital sander, and then go over the smaller nooks and crannies by hand.
2. Â Once it was sanded down as much as possible, I used Zinsser Cover Stain as a primer.
3. Once the primer was dry, I rolled on the paint, and used a brush in the hard to reach corners.  I chose a pale blue, ‘Prelude’ by Behr, to give it a fresh look!
4. Â As a last step I sprayed a few coats of exterior semi-gloss polyurethane over the entire piece.
Back to life!
This took the better part of a day to completely overhaul, but my bestie was so happy with her newly rockin’ rocking chair! Â It made all the work totally worth it!
There you have it folks–hope you liked it!  Come see me at Chase the Star soon!
