What You Will Need:

  1. An old camping stool
  2. Scrap wood. Mine had already been white washed, so I left them like that.
  3. A drill or screwdriver
  4. Screws 5. Low VOC spray paint
  5. Sand paper

How To Do It:

  1. Sand your camping stool. Then, clean it with a damp rag.
  2. Remove the fabric portion of the stool. This is an optional step, but I removed mine because it was in such a bad condition.
  3. Paint the remaining base portion the color of your choice. I chose a nice gray color– the same color I used for the vintage metal cart redo that I shared on Feel Good Style.
  4. Once your paint has dried, arrange your scrap wood on the top of the stool.
  5. You’ll basically flip everything over (like the picture below) and then screw the base of the camping stool to the wood. Make sure you choose a screw that is long enough to reach the wood top, but won’t break through. No one likes a sharp screw coming through the top of their table, right?

Now your side table is ready to go! Style it with some DIY projects like a sheet music tree (pictured above), recycled map art, graphic text art, button art, or an old book picture frame (just to name a few). If you have an old camping stool that you want to use as a table, but don’t want to alter at all, you can simply add a metal tray to the top like this How To Recycle a Camping Stool tutorial from Jaderbomb, too!

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