refinished Kitchen Step Stool

We bought this step stool at IKEA years ago with the intention of finishing it but years later here it is, still unfinished. After I completed my child's chair project this seemed a good next project to finally get completed. 

The things that stand out to me in our kitchen are the purple floor and red mixer that lives on the counter. Since I had some extra red paint around and left over purple floor paint I decided this would be a good way to use them and not need to buy anything new.

I began by painting the whole stool red and left it to dry completely. 

I didn't want to overcomplicate the design on the stool or create too big of a challenge for myself so I began by adding purple down the middle of the stool, all this took was some painters tape to paint between. Then I used a simple stencil I had to add a little more interest. 

Once the purple paint was dry. I gave the stool two coats of poly so it will be easy to keep clean. 

And once that was dry it was ready to be used!