How to paint a leather sofa?

A leather sofa can offer you a lot, including style and comfort. If it is in your usual or formal living room, then it represents a place where you can sit, lie down and relax. Even on the best skin over time, the color changes, or even disappears altogether. Or you could meet a beautiful leather sofa in a garage store or a charity store that is not the color or dirty and spotty. In all cases, the best way to give a leather couch a new life is to paint it. In this article we will tell you how to paint a leather sofa so that it can rejoice for a long time.

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Painting a leather sofa

Before you start painting leather furniture, you should prepare the paint of the color in which you would like to see your sofa. You can buy a dye for the skin in a special store or on sites where such products are sold.

Important! If you can not find the desired shade, you can get it by mixing the others, for example, if you want to get a dark brown color, but your dye seems too light, you can add a little black paint to it, and vice versa - for a lighter tone, use white paint.

What you need:

• Polyethylene or waste fabric.
• Paint for the skin.
• Bottle of water with a spray gun.
• Acetone. Rags or clothes.
• Gloves.
• Finish for leather.

Procedure:

• Take the couch to a well-ventilated area - a garage, a basement, and an outdoor yard will be an ideal place to work.

Important! Before you start painting, remove all the pillows to paint them separately.

• Place the sofa on polyethylene or an unnecessary cloth to protect the floor on which you work.
• Wipe dirt and dust on the skin with water and soap - do not get too carried away by completely soaking the sofa in water, it will be easy enough to wipe it with a cloth soaked in soapy water.
• To paint the sofa qualitatively, apply acetone to the skin - this will help to clean it more deeply and prepare for painting. Dampen a piece of clean cloth in acetone and walk it over the entire surface of the sofa.
• Spray water on the surface if you want the skin to be slightly damp to absorb the paint well, but not soaked with it.
• After wetting the sofa with water, apply a dye to the skin. Apply a little dye to a clean cloth or cloth, and then gently rub it into the surface of the sofa. Paint at the same time small sections of the sofa. It will be easier, and the skin will, as a result, have a more monochrome color, in which you will paint it. Spray the water in one piece, then paint it. Next, moisten the next part, apply a paint on it and so continue until you have painted the entire surface of the sofa completely.

Important! In the process of work, hands must be protected with rubber gloves.

• To wipe off excess dye after carefully inspecting each part of the sofa, use a dry cloth.
• Leave the sofa to dry - usually the drying process takes about 1-2 hours.
• Apply one more coat of paint - you need to apply as many layers of dye as you need to paint the leather sofa at home, exactly the color that you desire. For most sofas you need 3 to 6 layers.

Important! Before applying the next layer of paint, it is necessary to let the previous one dry completely.

• Apply the finishing coat to the surface of the furniture as soon as the last layer of the dye has dried out, as a rule, it can be purchased in the same place where you bought the skin paint. You can choose a matte or glossy finish. Spray the product on the surface of the sofa, rub it with a damp, clean cloth.

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Painting of a fabric sofa with aerosol paint

The old, shabby sofa, which you inherited, can spoil any interior. Of course, you can send it to the trash, but you can do it in a way that makes you look happy. In addition to the above described method, it is also possible to paint the sofa from the fabric with an aerosol dye.

Choose a sofa

If you have an old, shabby and rubbed sofa, it will do just fine. Remember, in this version of the painting it is only a sofa with fabric upholstery. If your furniture with a vinyl, leather surface or a polyester coating, you are more suited to the previous method of coloring described in this article.

Important! Before you start painting, you should test the dye in a small area - if the liquid immediately absorbs into the surface, you can start painting without fear. But if the water forms a ball and remains on the coating, most likely, the material will not be easy to paint.

Choose the color

It's best to choose a simple color scheme, because painting is a laborious task, and the stronger the new color will differ from the old one, the more it will take forces to paint the sofa.

It is advisable to choose either some neutral color or tone that fits to other objects in your interior.

Important! Neutral shades are good because they blend well with almost everything, they can be diluted with something like multi-colored pillows. If you want to use several colors, you need to carefully consider their combination.

Buy the necessary paint

For painting a sofa with fabric upholstery, you will need a special paint that can evenly impregnate the entire surface. Usual aerosol paint for these purposes will not work, therefore as because of it the upholstery can get bogged down. Buy a special paint in a can in a specialized store or order on the Internet.

Important! Paint must match exactly your type of fabric. Make sure that there is an inscription on the can that this paint is suitable for processing the fabric upholstery of the sofa. If the sofa is not listed in the description, then consult the seller.

Prepare furniture for painting

It is advisable to clean the couch with a steam or, if possible, put it in a dry clean. This will remove the surface from stains, dust, sticky pieces of food and other contaminants, so you can paint the sofa evenly.

Prepare a workstation for yourself

Since you will paint the sofa with a can, the sofa should be in a place where the drops of paint can not stain the surrounding objects. In addition, the workplace must be well ventilated.

Prepare protective equipment for yourself

You should buy a respirator and gloves. Also, do not forget to take care of clothes - it's better to put on old, unnecessary things, which you will not be sorry to throw out, if you stain them with paint.

Make a trial color of

Apply the dye to the most inconspicuous piece of furniture( somewhere from behind) to understand how it will lie and how it will look.

Important! In order to avoid any incidents, carefully read the instructions on the package before starting the dyeing.

Paint should be evenly absorbed, after drying do not fall off and look nice. After the painted area dries, apply a small amount of water to it and rub it with a rag to see if the paint is holding. If a colored trail remains on the rag, then this type of dye is not suitable for your fabric and it is better to look for another.

Painting

To paint the sofa from the fabric, break the whole process into several stages: first, treat one area of ​​the upholstery, let it dry, then cover the dye again, trying to achieve an even distribution of the paint.

You will also need these tools:

• Large drops of paint, wash and smear with a brush.
• For the coloring of corners, jewelry and fabric folds, use a thin brush.

Important! If the hair falls out of the brush, immediately remove them, otherwise - subsequently the dried hairs will look very uptick on the upholstery.

What's for painting:

• First paint the back of the furniture - so you will have the opportunity to stop the process if you do not like something.

Important! Try to apply each layer evenly. Do not apply too much paint - you need it to lay a thin even layer.

• Go to the front and side parts - at this point you should create a foundation for the subsequent layers of painting.

Important! If you need to paint the pillows, then do it separately.

So we told you how to properly paint a leather sofa and restore the beauty of furniture with fabric upholstery. We hope that our advice will help you breathe new life into furniture that has lost its appearance.