Dearest Husband, I hope you don't mind. While you were at work today, I painted our leather couch :)

My Dear Amazing Husband,  Love of my life, Man that I adore,

I painted our couch.  You know how I had been talking about painting the furniture....and you were like....I don't know...paint is hard to the touch....well...I did a lot of research and I was relieved the other day when you said you trust me with our home, so....I painted the couch.

So here are the steps I took....I know you will want to see everything.  :)

First, here is a reminder of just what it looked like before hand.

In general seating area leather rubbed off pretty good

This was dirty water from cleaning it

Kids marker on the couch

Leather rubbed off of the couch

So, I went scrounging around in the shed and came up with the paint that we used to paint the boys room.  A nice light grey color.

I got my unsanded grout, and water and the grey paint and mixed it together...and went to work.

I used a large mason jar to hold the "chalk paint."  I added 1/4 cup unsanded grout, 1 cup water and about 1 1/2 cup paint, (more or less).

I had to stir this paint up pretty good before using it.

Then I started painting the couch.  I did the back first and then the rest.  Here are the results babe, I really hope you like it.

 Next came sides and front:

And last but not least here are the final pictures of how it looks now :)

I know you can't see that it is grey on here....most likely it looks pretty much the same...but it is not...it is grey....now for the chairs!! :)

With all my love,

Your wife and forever companion,

Rachel J. Barnard <3 <3 <3