Dyeing Leather Chair

[jyl]

Our living room leather club chairs are looking very tatty after something like 25 years. To the point that they live covered up. Very classy.

I’m looking on Facebook Marketplace and see some very cool leather chairs, but they are the wrong color. Which has me thinking, can you re-dye leather?

Say, turn a blue leather chair into a dark brown one?

Anyone do this?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Yes you can. Years ago this was a regular topic on the Technical forum here. Leatherique was consistently lauded as the best. Also that these aftermarket leather dyes are not really true dyes but are closer to paints.

[LWJ]

I have done this long ago on my E36 seats with Leatherique. It worked pretty well. I did a less than perfect job and it looked like a good job.

[Dixie]

Do yourself a favor. Find chairs in the color you want.
Not all leather chairs are equal. On most, only the seating surface is leather and the rest is vinyl. There's also different ways of dying leather, from aniline to painted. Attempting to dye the chairs will most likely end in failure.

[Crowbob]

My lazy-boy was in critical care but pulled through.

Oh. Wait.

Nevermind.

[Tim Hancock]

When rebuilding my wrecked motorhome about 5 years ago I had to dye my fronts seats as the coach had sat open to the weather before I got it. The leather front seats were horrible. I used some dye I found on-line that a fellow rv'er recommended called Rub n restore.

https://rubnrestore.com/?srsltid=ARcRdnqFVjxd8O2JCgfgBSRltLtmTko5vfe382tgI VT7K9LFRLqtvZKR

It worked pretty good and seats still look good.

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