Last September, my roommates and I moved into a new apartment in which my new bedroom is much larger than my previous one. This is both great, because my last room was literally the size of a closet, but annoying because I spent most of my extra cash on summer happy hours moving that I had very little money at the time for furniture, which I needed, badly! Luckily, my dear friend Hillary was moving from her sprawling one bedroom in Queens to a much smaller, but much more conveniently located apartment in Manhattan and let me rummage through her extra furniture before she gave it to charity. I found this table, that I thought had major potential:

Before, waiting to be painted!

It was wicker, which I thought was cute, and the shape was perfect for a nightstand. It also had two decent shelves that I badly needed for my overload of books. But it’s brown hue didn’t fit my otherwise pretty girly-colored bedroom.

After some thought about what color direction to take it, I decided to go with white. I absolutely love white wicker, and I figured it would look darling in a bathroom or guest bedroom in the future. Wicker can be tricky to paint, so on the advice of my Aunt Kathy, who handily happens to be a furniture restorer, I chose spray paint. The spray paint was super easy to use (just follow the directions on the can!) and gave it solid coloring with a few coats.

Here’s how I did it:

Tools:

1. One can primer (white)

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