If you have West Elm furniture, you have no doubt discovered that it is less durable than you’d hope. After just one year outside on our COVERED AND ENCLOSED ON THREE SIDES north facing patio, our portside low sectional in Weathered Cafe looked awful.
I contacted customer service to see if they sold touch up paint or could assist me in obtaining touchup paint. They were unable to help.
I decided to try Sherman Williams paint matching. For less than $20 and in less than three hours (including time to drive and purchase the paint!) the furniture looked like new! I chose their premium outdoor paint and added enamel to help it last longer this time around.
Tip: I unscrewed one of the legs off the coffee table and took it with me to be color matched (versus dragging in an entire piece of the furniture).
To prepare the area, wiped it down with a damp cloth and used a basic cleaning brush to get any paint flakes off. For painting we used a foam brush and a regular paint brush (mostly because we didn’t have two paint brushes). The foam brush was good for quick coverage, but I did go over any foam brushed areas with the real brush to keep the texture of the wood.
The good news about this not-yet-a-year-old-but-needs-a-touch-up is that the texture of the furniture couldn’t be more ideal for retouching. You don’t have to worry at all about brush marks and the whole thing looked good as new when we were done!
