DIY || Vanity Stool

BEFORE

For the past couple of weeks I've been doing DIY project after DIY project because I'm going to be going back to school and moving into a new apartment in a little over a week. First I stained an Ikea bed, then I made a slipcover for an Ikea couch, and repainting my dresser is on the list for this weekend. In between these fairly major projects I slipped in this little guy: the vanity stool "makeover." I'll be posting about my bigger, better projects later on, but I figured I'd start with the simplest one first.  

The reason I wanted to redo my brown vanity stool was because, as you can see, my vanity is white, the drawers I use to store my makeup in are white, and the stool just looks like the little black sheep of my vanity family. I actually used to have the crappy white stool that came with the vanity, but that broke years ago. For a while I was actually considering buying a completely new vanity stool, but I decided against it as stools typically go for about $30 and a can of spray paint only costs $5. (By the way, when I move I'm going to replace my well-worn, plastic Target drawers with the small Alex drawer unit from Ikea. I'm excited.)

AFTER

It took the entire can of spray paint (FYI: I used Rust-Oleum White Lacquer Spray Paint), and my finger felt like it was about to fall off by the time I was done (am I the only one who finds the little spray paint buttons incredibly hard to push?!), but I'm really happy with the final product. The best thing was, it was a super easy project. All I had to do was unscrew the cream-colored seat from the brown legs, and then spray the brown until it was an opaque white. Once it dried it re-screwed the seat on and voila!

The before and after pictures weren't taken at the same angle, but you get the idea. It's just a small change, but I feel like my whole vanity area now looks more like a single makeup station now.