Inspire: Yellow

Traditional Nightstands And Bedside Tables design by Home Depot

My Dresser Got The Blues

Blue, blue, blue, blue! My go-to color. Also the main color in our room. Since we are keeping this dresser, it became blue to match the bed in our room.

We got this dresser from a neighbor who was moving out of state. It was missing one of the plastic deco things, so we just got rid of all of them and put on some wood trim. 

I primed the dresser with Zinsser's oil-based paint because it's all the rage with DIY furniture makeovers, so I thought I would give it a try. In all honesty, I don't see what the hype was all about. Zinsser's water-based primer is just as good, and I don't have to use mineral spirit to clean my brush/self up, or throw the brush away. and omgosh, oil-based primer smells SO BAD. So bad. The oil-based primer also takes about 1,490,099 years to dry.

While I was waiting for the primer to dry I spray painted the hardware gold with Rust-Oleum Metallic spray paint.

We have been working on our house for over a year. It’s a work in progress. We officially moved into our house in April earlier this year, and have slowly been furnishing it. So excited to have this baby in there!

Inspire: White

Traditional Dressers Chests And Bedroom Armoires design by Home Decorators Collection

Eclectic Side Tables And Accent Tables design by Inside Avenue

Traditional Dressers Chests And Bedroom Armoires design by Etsy

Traditional Dressers Chests And Bedroom Armoires design by Art For Kids

Inspire: Green

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Contemporary Table Lamps design by Lighting Fixtures Lamps Plus

Inspire: Stripes

Traditional Dressers Chests And Bedroom Armoires design by Out There Interiors

Eclectic Side Tables And Accent Tables design by frenchheritage.com

Modern Coffee Tables design by Etsy

Modern Chairs design by PBteen

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!