Rolling out the red carpet for Cassie!

Friends I am so excited to have Cassie from Primitive and Proper here these days!

She is an amazing buddy, blogger and talent and I am so satisfied to roll the red carpet out for her!

So Cassie take it away!

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Hello 551 East fans!  I am Cassie from Primitive and Suitable and I am SO excited to be right here!  I just adore Julia- she is super sweet, adorable, and freaking talented beyond all get out, yo.  She clearly brings out the gangsta in me due to the fact she is that cool.

Julia and I each really like to dabble in furniture makeovers and we each share a enjoy of color, a small bit of funk, and a little bit of glam, mixed with a dash of bohemian.  I thought I would share a satisfied colored makeover with you today.

I located this dresser lately on my nearby craigslist.  Whenever I find this style for a decent cost, I attempt to obtain it.  I just really like it is classic appear!

The only drawback to this dresser was that typically instances, the wood tends to bleed by means of primer and paint when the finish has been sanded off.  To save myself that problems of sanding and dealing with bleeding I decided to make my personal chalk paint.
I use my excellent friend Ann Marie's recipe: 1/2 c. plaster of paris mixed into 1/two c. warm water.  Once that is mixed add it to 1 c. flat or eggshell paint and mix effectively.  Then you are excellent to go- no sanding or priming necessary!

I gave this dresser two coats and then distressed it by hand with 150 grit sandpaper.  Then I employed a wax brush to apply a all-natural wax finish.  Once the wax dried, I buffed it for a smooth like buttah feel!  Here is the right after:

DIY chalk paint is one of the easiest and most low-cost approaches to go!  I strongly advocate attempting it!
Julia, thank you SO significantly for obtaining me right here these days!

Yellow Kitchen Concepts

Hello buddies, summer time is quickly approaching and this is the time of year when the appreciation for light, bold and beaming colors take more than and for me I never ever thoughts since it’s the ideal time of the year at least that is how it is for my family members. So why am I talking about summertime when this is a kitchen post? Properly because I have the sudden tendency to look at kitchen in the bold considering that lately. In my last kitchen post I talked about the bold color orange and I wanted to know if you would use such a colour in your kitchen so why not remain on row, how about yellow kitchenswould you ever paint your kitchen cabinets yellow or perhaps purchase kitchen cabinets that are yellow?  What about yellow walls?

Well I must admit I have a kitchen with yellow walls but that is as far as I went with the yellow in my kitchen in truth when individuals come over to my property they in no way say ooh I adore your yellow walls but however I usually get a nice compliment like I enjoy your kitchen and most don’t recognize the yellow walls due to the fact of the other things we have going on in the kitchen.

Friends I place collectively some fairly great yellow kitchen for you to admire and you will notice that some are extremely yellow and other folks are subtle and just have hints of the color yellow as accessories and I should warn you there are more than 60 yellow pictures of beautiful yellow kitchens so without further ado check out these out of this world yellow kitchens.