I Went and Did it

I went ahead and did it...I combined this blog with my new "life" blog. It's just much easier to maintain one blog. I will still be posting furniture make-overs and DIYs over at City Chick to Country Chic.

Thank you to all of you who have visited, shared, and participated in the giveaways! You can follow me here if you want to keep seeing all of the stuff I do.

Thanks again, and I hope to see you at City Chick to Country Chic!

Post Christmas Project Time

I hope you all had a very lovely Christmas! 

I've been a slacker over the holidays. That's just how it goes! Just as a heads up, I may be combining this blog and a new blog I have started...but I haven't decided for sure though. 

Anyway, I've had this dining table since the fall, and haven't done anything with it yet. 

I started working on it today. You will see more next week! 

Once Upon a Time...

Remember how, once upon a time, I started this really awesome project for some real life clients then never showed you how it turned out? 

I totally forgot to take a picture after it was done! I know right? SO. The lovely Lacey's sent one to me and I am so grateful! 

Here she is:

I love how it turned out! Their inspiration for the table came from this table I did this past summer:

The process is really simple:

1. Sand the table top to the bare wood
2. Stain the table with your favorite stain
3. Stencil the table in your favorite color

That's it! Thank you, Lacey's, for letting me makeover your table! 

Thanks for reading!

Winner of the Colored Chalkboard Giveaway!

I didn't post much about this giveaway...as soon as I told you about it I went on a family trip to see my brother graduate from Marine boot camp. Here he is with our mom:

Anyway, that's why I've been slacking. Without anymore nonsense, the winner of the Colored Chalkboard Giveaway is...Megan!

Congratulations, Megan! Contact me (by commenting on this post, or sending an email) within 48 hours to claim your colored chalkboard! Yay, you!

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway!

Colored Chalkboard Giveaway

I've been a slacker lately, but we have a giveaway! It's this cute little colored chalkboard with a distressed white frame. I used to hate chalkboards simply because I hate chalk, but discovered a trick thanks to Pinterest: if you get your chalk wet it doesn't make a gross sound! 

This would be a cheap {aka free} and cute Christmas gift for a little girl or for yourself! 

Anyone in the continental U.S. can enter. I will ship the chalkboard to you if you win. If you live locally I will deliver it. 

Here are the rules: 

1. “Follow Us” through email—it’s on the right side of the page! If you do not have a blogger profile or follow the blog anonymously you must leave an email address in the comment box. {required}
2. “Like” our Facebook page {required} for a second entry.
3. “Post” a comment with at the bottom of this post letting me know that you have followed the blog through email and liked our page, or if you just did one. 
4. Check back on December 11, 2012 to see who won!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Remember, if you "Follow Us" and "Like" our Facebook page you get two entries. Good luck!

Inspire: Yellow

Traditional Nightstands And Bedside Tables design by Home Depot

Inspire: Chevron

Eclectic Chairs design by Etsy

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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

Guys.

Guys, I changed my button! I miss the Beatnik Barn Unicorn already, but since I made this image, I can use it freely. If the time ever comes where I can either choose to be myself or a unicorn, I will still choose the unicorn. Even if I cheated on the unicorns with my new button. 

Check it out:

Ignore my amateur design skills, and just be happy with me about this. You can only do so much with zero design knowledge and Google draw. If you want a piece of me (aka Beatnik Barn), grab the button text in the sidebar or the text in the box below. It would make me feel awesome....kind of like a unicorn. 

Enjoy!




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DIY Upholstery: Cinderella Chairs

I don't know why I call them "Cinderella Chairs". Maybe because I worked on them all night. And they are super girly.

Here is what they looked like before: 

Just ignore the horrifying mess in my kitchen. It's still under construction. 

First, disassemble, sand, and prime. 

While your primer is drying, start working on your cushions!

Give your chairs some love, and paint the crap out of them. I painted three coats on my chairs. Sand between coats if you like. 

Enjoy!

Inspire: Green

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Contemporary Table Lamps design by Lighting Fixtures Lamps Plus

Some Stuffs

I finished a table this week, but I can't post pics until the couple sees it first!

This week I'm going to paint this baby for our bedroom.

It seriously took me ten minutes to get the drawers figured out. Don't judge.

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

Real Life Clients

Thanks to the Fall Festival I got a couple of real-life clients! One of them is a super sweet couple, Lora and Charles, and I get to refinish their dining room table.

Lora really liked the look of this table I finished that ended up in a local quilt shop:

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She requested something similar, but with a turquoise base *squeal*

Here are the before pics (it’s not set up, sorry about that-I didn’t think ahead-but you get the idea).

Thanks for the opportunity guys! I can’t wait to see how it turns out!