Inspire: Yellow

Traditional Nightstands And Bedside Tables design by Home Depot

Inspire: Green

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Contemporary Table Lamps design by Lighting Fixtures Lamps Plus

Inspire: Pink

Traditional Dressers Chests And Bedroom Armoires design by frenchboutique.com.au

Traditional Nightstands And Bedside Tables design by Maisons du Monde

Eclectic Nightstands And Bedside Tables design by PBteen

Traditional Chairs design by Furniture And Accessories Horchow

Eclectic Dining Chairs And Benches design by ABC Carpet & Home

Simple and Simply Blue

I love colored dressers and the color blue. If a piece doesn't "speak to me" like the pink and white chevron dresser, I usually opt to paint the silent piece blue. It's my fave; soothing, sincere, comfortable, constant, playful, and fresh. Fresh like water, not fresh like, "are you getting fresh with me?" 

The only thing I would do differently is maybe stencil a design on the drawers to give it more character and texture. 

This is what the dresser looked like before (thanks, Rebecca!):

First, I primed it with Zinnser water-based primer which is a huge step up from the leftover drywall primer I have been using. (Zinnser primer has an oil based primer too, but I wanted water based...I'll get adventurous and try oil-based one of these days. I heard it's great!)

Second, I painted 3-4 coats of Color Place (the Wal-Mart brand) Timeout Turquoise in semi-gloss using a mini foam roller brush (also from Wal-Mart) and that was it! No sanding or anything. 

Color Place True Turquoise

Mini foam roller from Wal-Mart

One last look:

This baby will be at the Fall Festival in Cameron, Missouri on Saturday (October 20th, 2012). I'm so totally excited for it! 

Thanks for looking!

Inspire: Blue

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Traditional Dressers Chests And Bedroom Armoires design by Furniture And Accessories Horchow

Modern Buffets And Sideboards design by Room Service

Asian Side Tables And Accent Tables design by Dc Metro Media And Blogs Beth Connolly

Contemporary Chairs design by Fossil

Inspire: Purple

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Eclectic Mirrors design by Neiman Marcus

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KARE - Purple Dresser (clipped to polyvore.com)

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Inspire: Boho Chic

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Yellow Nightstand Giveaway

This is our first time doing a giveaway! So excited! 

The only catch is that you must live in Missouri and be willing to pick the piece up. Remember we are located in Kidder, Missouri. Not many people know where that is…just Google it!

Here are the rules: 

1. “Post” a comment with your name at the bottom of this post to be entered into the drawing. 
2. “Follow Us” through email—it’s on the right side of the page!
3. “Share” this post on your favorite social media site. Tell your friend to mention your name in their post and you will be entered to win again!
4. Check back on October 3^rd, 2012 to see who won. 

You may only comment one time to enter. Again, if your friend mentions that you sent them to this post your name will be entered again! And again, and again, and again, depending on how many friends you have :)

If you have any questions, contact us.

Ready. Set. GO!

Faux Fireplace Mantle

I found this awesome mantle at a yard sale for ten bucks.

A little corner got broken off then glued back on, so I fixed it with a little wood filler.

I found a mustardy yellow quart of paint in the reject isle and swooped it up. and that faux fireplace became this:

I'm totally in love!

A Tufted Seat

Last week I tried tufting for the first time. I took a bench that looked like this:

And with a button kit, upholstery needle, duck cloth, and love made it look like this:

Hooray for first tries! I want to try diamond tufting next. You know, the really incredible stuff that looks like this:

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A Very Merry, Yellow-y Hutch

I had a neighbor friend ask me to paint a pine hutch for her.

This is how it turned out: 

A very merry, yellow hutch! 

I removed the top door because it was breaking, and honestly, I like the look better.