Painting a car interior with Fusion Mineral Paint.

Painting a car interior with Fusion Mineral Paint.

painting a car with Fusion Mineral Paint.
Interior of the car.

Painting a car interior with Fusion Mineral Paint.

Um yeh, I know it’s absurd! and right off I’d like to say that Fusion Mineral Paint was designed as a furniture paint. But the product is excellent and hardwearing and can be used on so many surfaces, so I’ll explain how we got our weirdest commission ….to date 😉

A few posts ago we did an interior revamp for a lovely client and ended up painting her leather armchair. It no longer went with her design and it was headed for the local landfill, so we thought why not! fast forward to a couple weeks ago and her husband who is a car dealer asked if we could spruce up the leather interior of a Mercedes convertible. You see he sits on that leather armchair night after night, the kids jump on it and so does the dog. His thinking was that if the paint held up to all that it should work just great in the car.

We explained to him that it wasn’t meant for this purpose and we couldn’t guarantee that it would have a long life, but he decided he wanted to go ahead.

Here is a before of the car interior.

painting a car with Fusion Mineral Paint.
Seat with yellow insert

Prep 

We were asked to paint all the yellow parts of the interior, and he decided he wanted to go black. The seats we knew would be easy and durable but the dash board etc was made of a combintion of rubber type material and plastic.

It took a bit of time to prep and tape everything up, it was cleaned and prepped with a lttle sanding using our fabulous Sandi Hands. They came in useful in the hard to reach areas.

painting a car with Fusion Mineral Paint
It’s all in the prep work

 

painting a car with Fusion Mineral Paint.
masking the door panels.

 

It probably took just as long to prep as it did to paint, but this wasnt the type of job you could just start over.

painting a car with Fusion Mineral Paint.
Hard at work

Starting the fun part.

Once all the prep was done and we were sure we had masked everything, it was time to start painting. We were so excited! and at one point we had maybe 5 men all standing around the car, arms folded shaking their heads and mumbling under their breath! sooo funny.

It took about 2-3 coats all over, a variety of different brushes were used including a roller for the leather seats.

painting a car with Fusion Mineral Paint.
First coat applied with a roller.

 

painting a car with Fusion Mineral Paint.
centre panel being painted.

Everything was given one to two thin coats the first day and left overnight. The third coat is were it all started coming together.

painting a car interior with Fusion Mineral Paint.
Looks better even after one coat!

 

painting a car interior with Fusion Mineral Paint
The dashboard and door inserts after 3 light coats.

 

The car had to be kept inside on day 2 as it was raining and we needed the roof down , so the pics could be better but I think even in this light it’s clear there is a massive improvment.

painting a car interior with Fusion Mineral Paint.
nearly done, just the tape to remove and touch ups to be done.

 

After the 3 light coat the tape was removed and a few touch ups done and it was ready! We are dissapointed we haven’t got a beauty shot with the car all washed in some pretty location, but the weather had been real bad and before it cleared up the dealer sold it !

painting a car interior wit Fusion Mineral Paint.
Still drying but a huge improvement from the banana yellow.

 

painting a car interior with Fusion Mineral Paint.
Finishing touch ups done.

 

In the picture above the chairs are still drying but the centre panels and dash has dryed to a lovely matte finish. It was a intricate job but we really enjoyed the challenge.

We often say in our trade that we would ‘paint anything’ and now we can tick a car off the list.

We would love to hear what you think , leave a coment and let us know.

Sarah x

 

to see the leather armchair painted in Fusion Mineral paint click here.

Painting leather with Fusion Mineral Paint

 

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  2. Jessica Moore

    This is EXACTLY what I needed to see to paint my Jeep interior. I had the paint sitting in my cart unsure of how good of a job it’d do on my vinyl interior. Thank you so much for this! Yours turned out great!

  3. john adams

    what green car paint to paint seats do you have

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