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!

A Blue Side Table

Turns out, I'm not very good at "creative" titles for my blog posts. I'm okay with it. Lately, people have been giving me their reject furniture out of the goodness of their hearts. That's how I got this little side table: 

It was in great shape except for the bottom piece. It was breaking and falling off, so My Honeypie just removed it. I used some of my left over paints and mixed them together to get the color and do-do-doo-blue!

I plan on taking her to the Cameron Fall Festival. One last quick look:

Thanks for looking!

Inspire: Colorful Couches and Sofas

Contemporary Sofas design by Viesso

Modern Furniture design by Furniture And Accessories prettypegs

Sofas design by CB2

Contemporary Sectional Sofas design

Eclectic Sofas design by Anthropologie

Modern Sofas design by Charlotte Furniture And Accessories CoCoCo

Eclectic Love Seats design by Anthropologie

Eclectic Love Seats design by Furniture And Accessories IKEA

Modern Sofas design by Skandium

Contemporary Sofas design by Jonathan Adler

Vintage Side Table in Mint

 

 I have always wanted to paint one of these tables! My sister-in-law gave it to me when it looked like this:

It wasn't in bad shape, but it just needed some love!

This cute thing will be at the Cameron Fall Festival October 20th. So excited!

Delicious Plum Purple Children's Dresser

I recently (like two days ago) decided to participate in Cameron, Missouri's Fall Festival. This means I will have a booth that I need to fill up with stuff from Beatnik Barn! I'm totally excited. Hopefully I will see some of you there!

I got this dresser for pretty cheap. I was just plain, wood dresser. I got it before I started this blog, so there is no before picture. It was originally redone to look like this: 

and didn't end up loving it like I thought. I decided to take my re-done dresser, and re-do it again for the Fall Festival. This is what came out:

I like it a lot better! 

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!

An Orange Surprise!

Once upon a time I hated orange. Then one day I realized it was just certain types of orange. Like construction cone/vest orange. So bad. And orange orange, as in, oranges. Anyway, back to business. I got this dresser off the side of the road, for freeeee! 

In perfect condition! I think it was made of some sort of wood and laminate yuck-i-ness. This was part of my sneak peek for last week, but I couldn't drag it up the stairs by myself, so I waited until My Honeypie could help me. I turned it into this:

Since I overestimated my awesomeness, I didn't get all of my sneak peeks finished last week, so there is no sneak peek this week!

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. 

Beatnik Be's

Just taking a quick minute to phlog here and tell you about our new look! I guess we can't really consider it "new" considering the blog is only maybe two weeks old.

At any rate, let me explain it: I call the header the "Beatnik Be's":

Be Colorful
Be Creative
Be Curious
Be You

Not just as a reminder to myself, but to everyone! Be different. Be a Beatnik!