How To Paint: Wrought Iron

I’m declaring this How To Paint Week.

We’re going to let Bob Vila teach us how to paint several different types of furniture.  This article will teach us how to paint wrought iron.

Krylon has the best color options, and opt for a matte finish—it always looks better.

1. Sand. You need to make sure you give iron furniture (or iron anything) a light sanding before you put paint on it. You can use a sponge-block sanding pad.

2. Wash. My husband insisted that we didn’t need to spray the furniture down, but I didn’t want little dust flecks and spider webs sealed into my furniture, so I sprayed all of the chairs down with the hose, letting the furniture dry completely before applying primer.

3. Prime. We sprayed a light coating of primer on the chairs, since they were a bright red color that we wanted to hide completely.

4. Paint. In order to NOT spray paint our lawn a festival of colors (and to save our backs from hunching over), we put the chairs up on sawhorses.

It’s just that simple!  So grab a can of spray paint and enjoy.

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