I tried painting a velvet chair to look like leather | DIY faux leather chair

Hello everybody! In this video I show you how I painted this velvet vintage chair to look like leather, I've seen a lot of other youtubers ( Lone Fox, DIY Danie, and Jamie and Sarah to name a few!) trying out this DIY fabric to "leather" trend where you take latex paint and mix it with fabric softener, paint it right on the chair {or couch} and it magically ends up looking like faux leather!
I really wanted to try this out for myself, but with a slight twist... I wanted to see if I could paint a more textured fabric, crushed velvet, to be specific, and have it look like realistic faux leather. I opted to go for a dark brown, aged look instead of the more popular "camel" brown that I see way too much of. Don't come at me, I just think its a little overdone if you ask me..
But I think I did a pretty good job! What do you think?
Thanks for watching as always! It means a lot to me as a small youtuber ..
~~ Rae ~~

[@simplysophi]

I’ve been wanting to try this but was afraid my chair wouldn’t actually end up looking like leather. So I’ve been looking up all videos related. Yours was the most helpful.

[@MyPerpetualProject]

I have one coat of latex paint mixed with Downey on my chair. It has a bumpy pattern & I'm hoping by coat 3 or 4, it will be hidden. Your video is very well done and gives me hope that my chair will actually come out.🙂

[@demetevans7249]

So cool, thanks for showing how to do this. I picked up some great tips from watching you, plus laughed along the way, you're funny and smart, plus brave to try this. X

[@camilamicalski753]

Nice work!

[@merrilew]

Very cool job!! I have two chairs in my garage that I’m waiting to do but they’re not velvet. Great job.

[@aprilsworld9562]

Great job!

[@Monetta007]

Loveeewd it

[@crystalcole888]

Dude, excellent job on the shading 👍

[@carolynyoung2797]

Looks good. 👍🏻🎃

[@themarajoitv3649]

Wow this looks amazing is it comfortable to sit on? Thanks for sharing

[@lorimoss1883]

Amazing

[@mds232s]

I love this. The chair looks so nice. How has it held up?

[@smaasland]

Did you do a 1:1 ratio? At around 5:43 it looks like you did maybe 3 parts paint to 1 part softener?

[@lorimoss1883]

How has it held up? It's beautiful.

[@Monetta007]

Loveeeed it

[@TheLoneRanger1992]

Hi, I’m going to be painting a fabric armchair with chalk paint. I’m just wondering is it best to mix paint with fabric softener and water? Also do I need to wax it afterward?

[@mariaines6673]

Lindo.Lindo 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@jaynestewart720]

Can you use them for sitting

[@tanl7756]

Did you use FLAT latex paint? or satin or semigloss or gloss? I see on the cans one is satin and one is gloss. I've seen other use flat. Please advise!

[@retoldbyrae]

Yes one color was a satin finish, and the other was gloss... I did not notice a difference at all between the two, they both were the same consistency and dried about the same, although the gloss was slightly shinier... I will have to do more experiments with other paints!

[@livingcute427]

The inspo pic just took me out 🤣🤣

[@badmother7615]

I love your video. From a thrift diva-I am concerned you spent $20 for that horrid thing and then spent time fixing it. Gah! $5-10 MAX. Curb finds (depending on your city) and Goodwill. (Goodwill is run by employees who don’t care what things retail for).

[@retoldbyrae]

I agree $20 was too much! I don't know what I was thinking honestly .. But it looks cool in my bedroom now! Lol .

[@lblincoe2094]

Someone charged you $20 for that chair?? 🤯 Gurl, nooo! It's a good thing you are so amazing with the DIY skillz because someone did you dirty (literally lol)!

[@kim99may]

No kidding right! I’ve definitely seen better on the curb. Spray paint was a new one! ❤❤❤