Before You Pitch Those White Resin Chairs...

by Bethany P

$35

1.5 Days

Medium

Living in Florida with a screened (but no roof) pool, means we're sort of married to plastic pool furniture. We had three used-to-be blue chairs that had faded over time and we had inherited a couple of white plastic chairs when we moved into the house. All but one of them had been stacked by the shed gathering all manner of nastiness for the past year and a half.
When I decided it was time to deal with the awful seating situation around the pool - I hated the idea of pitching 5 plastic chairs, only to spend about $100 to replace them with 5 more ugly plastic chairs. After doing some research, I figured it was worth giving some plastic paint a shot. Here's the results!

before you pitch those white resin chairs

We used to be blue - now we're just BLAH!

Gathering dirt, leaves and stains!

Rustoleum Ultra Cover - I chose the brightest, tropical colors I could find!

I painted the under side/back of all of them first. I single coated the backs/bottoms and double-triple coated the fronts and sides.

After the first two I was so delighted with how they were turning out, I couldn't wait to get them all done!

Just a little tip - red and orange took a lot more paint to cover the chairs. Not sure why - but each of these got a third coat.

Then it was time for some "customizing"!!

I used a printed image - simple chalk transfer and then painted the image on the chair.

EDITED: I'm including instructions for this as I've received a lot of questions about chalk transferring.

Print any image from your computer. Rub chalk all over the back of the image page (I use sidewalk chalk because it's bigger). Turn it over and lay it, chalk-side-down, onto your project. Trace over your image with a pen or pencil. When you remove the page you will have a chalk outline to paint.

Had to represent our Florida Gators!

And then some tropical fun!

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Mar5365451 on Sep 29, 2016
What paint did you use for the chairs? Did you use varnish the chairs after the paint dried?

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Sybil Wilson on Jul 09, 2017

What do you think would be the equivalent paint in the UK as I don't think I have ever seen the paint you used over here ?

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S on Oct 02, 2018

I tried this and the paint peeled! Did you treat your chairs with something prior to painting them? And how many cans per chair?? Yours look FAB!

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Alysha Gomez on Aug 29, 2018

Wow!! Saw another project w/ glue & napkins but this looks much easier!! I have several white plastic patio chairs. This will really brighten up the patio.
Thank you for your wonderful idea.

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Diane on Jun 20, 2021

I love this idea. My 2 chairs would love a fresh coat of paint.

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