80's Barstool no more!

I recently moved into my boyfriend’s condo, yes you heard me. I moved into HIS place. Yikes!

At first I was hesitant, because it's totally not my place and it's not an extremely large! Oh, and did I mention that there is only one bathroom? Ugh!

Who am I kidding? I wasn’t hesitant because it not a ton of room, or there was only one bathroom. I was hesitant because it was a man cave! Nothing about it was pretty, girly or mine!

In order to make this place feel like it too was my home I needed to make some changes, some small and some large! This was going to take a lot and I mean A LOT of work and convincing.

After many discussions on the issue my fabulous boyfriend assured me that I could do whatever I wanted to the place, except paint over two walls. No big deal, because I could live with the two red walls, because I was going to paint every other wall in the place!

Given the economic times and my sanity I decided to tackle one room at a time and with smaller projects, so I started in the living/dining room and with his retro bar stools.

The two 80's looking bar stools looked so outdated and I thought: "I work for a paint company! A little paint and stain will make them look like new!" So that’s what I did.
I sanded down the legs and repainted them with a silver metallic paint, and sanded down the wooden tops and stained them with a cabernet color.

The end result is amazing. I only spent money on the paint and sandpaper! Not to mention that I didn’t just throw something that was actually useful into a landfill, so I felt a little bit green that day!

Now what to do next??? :)

(I used Rust-Oleum Universal Silver Metallic, and Varathane Stain and Poly Spray-Cabernet)