Painting Cabin Upholstery?

SkiPharmer

SkiPharmer

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Jul 27, 2014
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St. Croix River, MN
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2001 Formula 41 Performance Cruiser
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Twin 8.2. Liter Mercruisers Direct Drives
Anyone done this? I wanna get rid of the 90s flower print in my 1995 330 DA. I just got a quote of almost $3,000 to do it. No way. My one buddy suggested I just use a cloth paint. I googled some stuff that people have done (older cloth chairs) and it looks great! Thoughts?
 
awesome...i got a buddy who is handy gonna help me with this. I don't see why it wouldn't work. most of the floral print is on the border of the V-berth and side panels
 
We have been considering this, our walls in the cabin are upholstered and looking a little old. We have been looking into removing it all and redoing in vinyl like the newer 500s. Will be following this to see how it works if you do it.
 
SkiPharmer said:
awesome...i got a buddy who is handy gonna help me with this. I don't see why it wouldn't work. most of the floral print is on the border of the V-berth and side panels
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It cant hurt trying it out... Personally I think it would work out great.. Especially since like you said its on the Border of the V-berth and the Side panels..... Please post pictures of before and after if you do it...
 
You could certainly try it but I think you will be a lot happier if you remove the panels and cover them yourself or have someone else do it.

I have done a number of these including my own boat. It takes about an hour to unscrew the panels. You do not need to remove the old fabric....in fact that may be why they want to charge you that much money. Find the fabric you want, buy 1000 stainless steel staples and an air powered or electric staple gun and you will finish recovering all the panels in a single evening.

A battery screw gun makes short work of installing them back on to the boat.

I can post pictures of the process if that would help.
 
I am familiar with the removable panels. I have already done the entire cockpit, including making a few new panels. Our issue on our boat is the walls in the cabin have padded fabric actually glued to the wood, which is part of the structure, so they are not removable. The headliner in the salon/galley is suspended, not glued to the roof. The headliner goes above all the cabinets, so they need to be removed in order to replace the fabric. This is why I am thinking of the chalk paint thing.
 
so far so good....i will take more pics when i get more done. im painting everything with a gray outdoor upholstery spray paint.
 
I would just remove the panels and recover them myself.
By the time you buy the paint, mask everything off, and spray it you’ll likely have the same amount of time and money invested if you do the panel removal and new fabric yourself.
I’ll bet the fabric is just stapled to the panels. If so, then the most time consuming part of the whole job will be removing all the old staples.
I’ve done cockpit panels with vinyl several times and they are pretty easy. An electric or air powered stapler makes attaching the new fabric with Monel staples really easy.
 
Send me the pics and the paint you use Chris Brock 816-882-2638. I have a 310 sundancer with a lot of similar issues. Thanks in advance
 
One of our members did this, I think it was Scorpio on the Classic forum. I know the photos showed it came out looking super nice but I don’t know how it held up
 
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