I love rustoleum paints. I spray painted a metal storm door this summer and it looks great.

What parts of the chair are wood and what is fabric? You could upload a picture to photobucket and post a link. This way everyone can get a look at the chair and you can get the best answer possible. assuming it is simply the seat. look on the underside. Sometimes the upholstered parts of the chair are fabric around a piece of foam atop wood. This is usually fixed into place with screws from the underside of the chair.

Sonicmom - The chairs feel like they did before they were painted. If you want smooth, start with a smooth chair (sanded if necessary) and apply maybe three thin coats of paint. If you want to decoupage, there will be raised areas and how raised depends on the thickness of your cutouts. If they're wallpaper they will be a little thicker but if they're tissue paper or napkins they will be thinner. CEFreeman, I have three terracotta pots I fill in the summer and keep in the garage in the winter. I did latex and spar varnish inside and out and they've lasted for years. The decorations on them I used acrylic craft paints. These were something I just threw together fast just to get some color on my porch steps. I'm thinking these would be a great Girl Scouts project for Mother's Day! The checks were done with a flat brush and the dots were done with a q-tip. I quit using the saucers because when it rained or I sprinkled they held water and were drowning the plants. Then I have two matching ones I painted the same and I think I did not coat the insides all the way -- trying to remember. They stay out all the time. They got wet and then froze, then thawed, then started to disintegrate. :( I need to replace them now but they each have plants in them and they're not small pots. The other mistake I made was hand painting a small detailed design on them. You can't see it from the street. Duh me. Anyone know what I should replace them with? I'm thinking plastic is what will endure the weather. Does this cracking up happen to all terracotta pots? I love that your creativity is going. Be sure to post pictures! Grlwprls - My neighbor lost her bird bath in the same winter I lost my pots. I'll tell her about your dad's secret, thanks! Thanks about the chairs, too.

I think you have some very pretty things in your room to work with! I also think you have some limitations due to all the yellow/golden tones of all the oak in the room. Then you are also keeping the drapery and rug, which further might limit your choices. My first thought is a richer green, which I think would show off the rose colors in the fabric and rug, and play nicely with the oak. But you have ruled that out, I guess because you feel you have enough green already elsewhere. The drapery does have some other great colors, but I am afraid that many of them will end up making the oak look even more yellow/gold, rather than showing off the pretty colors in the fabric and rug. Warm yellow can be wonderful with pinks and roses, but again I worry about the furniture. I think Jejvtr is on to the right idea of going into the brick tones, as seen on the edge of the trumpet shaped flower on the top of the closeup pix. Otherwise, the best thing might be to just do a creamy soft ivory, and bring the color in through other means. I could see artwork matted in burgundy, some color added in the china cabinet in the form of some pretty vases or large platters in the back in deeper colors. A runner on the table in the deeper tones of the greens and burgundies would be pretty. Or a centerpiece in a cachepot that has the rich colors on it, with more shades and colors in the greens and florals - the glass vase just gets lost on there, imo. Candles, perhaps painting the rattan (I think) plantstand by the window in a richer color, etc. One other thing that might make a difference would be to make slipcovers for the backs of the chairs with matching seat cushions, or just a slipcover for the whole chair. Something in a companion print of a pretty stripe or plaid would bring more color into the room and break up all the oak.