A Blue-and-White Striped Cabana Dresser

I just discovered the online store White Berry Reinvented and fell in love with the collection of painted furniture it offers. Holly, who blogs at Life in the Fun Lane, is the creative woman behind it.

I think this Striped Cabana Dresser ($240) would be right at home in a beach cottage. Holly says she painted this dresser white but felt it still needed something more. One day it came to her: blue stripes! You can see the rest of her painted furniture here.

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Indian Key Chest

I spotted this Indian Key Chest on the Cottage & Bungalow website and wish I had an extra $2,645 sitting around to buy it. So pretty--especially in the beach house setting.

I even like the description of the colors: "Shown in Butter Pecan with Blueberry Crisp accent." Yum. Sounds good enough to eat.

Today is Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host on my other blog at the end of the week to celebrate the things that make us happy. Come join us!

The Sailboat Chair

When I first spotted this piece of furniture on the Anthropologie website, I admit I was a little puzzled. It looked sort of sailboat-like, sort of hammock-like. It was sitting on a dock, near the water, but had legs like a chair. Hmmm. A furniture mystery! So I had to investigate.

They call it a suspension chair. To be precise, it is a $558.00 "design marvel crafted of chestnut-hued wood and a carefully strung cradle of taut jute." (Hand that copywriter a medal for Most Creative Description of a Strange Sailboat-Shaped-Chair-Hammock Thing.) Oh, and it costs an additional $75 to ship. *Cough*

I'd be tempted to get it except, well, I don't have a dock to set it on, and I'm not sure how well it would look on dry land (aka my living room). What do you think?

Let the Sun Shine In

I'm in a yellow kind of mood. I find myself ripping pictures out of magazines and catalogs like these that have pops of bright, sunshiny color.


I came "thisclose" to buying this yellow cabinet from IKEA recently. Looking at it now makes me think I might just have to go back and get it. Surely I can find someplace in my house for it?

And I love this chair from Anthropologie. Hmmm. Where, oh, where, could I use a yellow chair?


Do you have a certain color that's been calling to you lately?

I've read a couple of books about color theory that say that when you're craving a color, it represents something that's lacking in your life. Like light blue represents creativity (which is why I painted my home office light blue recently!). Purple means you have a longing for spirituality. And yellow, as I recall, stands for communication.

(Photo at the top from BHG.)

P.S. I'm giving a tour of the Queen Anne Victorian home used for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" over at my other blog today. If you've ever been curious about what it actually looked like inside, take a look!

Some Beach House Lighting for Lampapalooza

The Nester is having a "Lampapalooza" blog party today, and everyone is showing, well, lamps and lighting! Here are a few examples of pretty beach house lighting that caught my eye this week:

These two turquoise lamps from a room in Southern Accents really "pop," don't they? I think they pull the whole room together. Here's another pretty blue lamp in a bedroom featured on HGTV.com. Really like the beachy blues in this room, and how the lampshade kind of coordinates with the bedding:

Speaking of a lampshade that goes with the bedding--check out this cheery yellow and aqua bedroom from James Solomon's portfolio (which I originally found at House of Turquoise):


Head over to Nester's to see the lamps and lighting everyone else is showing today for Lampapalooza (do you know how many times I had to check to see if I was spelling that right?).

Oh, and I've got a post on my other blog I'm entering in the party, too--an example of what not to light an old French cottage with (click right here to see that).

Hooked on Russell & Mackenna's Beachy Buffets

I've always loved painted furniture, so I was excited to discover Russell & Mackenna's fresh and beachy painted furniture when I wrote this post about the owners' home recently.

At Russell & Mackenna, you pick the piece of furniture you want and then tell them what color to paint it. The little girl in me would love to fill my house with one of everything from their catalog--and with each piece painted a different bright and happy color.

Check out the Russell & Mackenna website to see more. They have a lot more than just buffets! And if you missed my post about the husband and wife team behind it, then you have to see their house.

I'm adding this post to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I throw on my other blog each week to celebrate the things that make us happy. Head over to see Brooke's beautiful beach house--the other thing I'm hooked on today!

Hooked on This Blue Sideboard

This is exactly the kind of sideboard I've been searching for to use in my dining room. I'm trying to get a beachy vibe in the room and this would be perfect! I found it at Wisteria and couldn't stop staring at it. So I posted it here so you could stare at it, too.

Unfortunately for me, it's $499, and another $100 gets tacked on for shipping. There are a few more important things I'll need to use that $600 for besides a pretty sideboard table, but hey, a girl can dream, right?

*Sigh.*

I thought it would be fun to join my own Hooked on Fridays blog party--something I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things that make us happy. Hop on over to my other blog to see what everyone else is hooked on today!

Beach Chairs

I spotted these "Beach" chairs on the porch of a house for sale in Seaside, Florida. How fun are these? If the chairs were mine, I think I'd paint them yellow. Or a nice turquoise blue. How about you?

To see the gallery of photos these chairs came from, click here.