From Persimmon to Cuban Cigar. The story of a chesterfield...

She was glorius

and flirtatious

in her day

The bright orange chesterfield that I brought home for a song

 ..But after a few years

her color was

well

a bit limiting....

and she needed to move to the family room. 

And Orange wasn't gonna cut it.

After a bit of searching

and calling around to local upholstery and leather refinishing places

I recieved a quote of over $1000 clams to change Orange to brown.

nope.

 Then... I came across a product that 

promised it could

 restore....and re-color leather.

Enter: Rub N Restore

Created by a mother daughter team in California...

the site is full of hopeful testimonials and pictures...even videos.

after a phone call with the owner

I decided to plunk down the 39 bucks and try it out...

The hardest part was picking the dye color...

Even got MY  87 year old Mamacita in on the game

yes her shirt says OBVI. as in ...ously

yes. Grandma B is cool.

It was unbelievably easy...we sponged it on

and it took less than an hour.

I kid you not

I wanted to allow some of the orange to show through...as wear

or a bit of distress. I didn't want a single color

but the look of time and age...

I got out a thin paintbrush to finish around cording and other hard to reach places

It was stunningly easy.

Easy Peasey easy.

 From Persimmon Orange

to Cuban Cigar Brown

Just. Like. That.

That was fun.

It has been jumped on, pawed at, slept on, played on

...and is holding up beautifully

And it has the Finnegan and Pearl

seal of Great Dane approval.

'cuz if they ain't happy....

.

 well, you know.

Re-do thee some leather.
stat.