Reimagined Monday: Child's Colonial-style Bed Update

Yes, it is one of our favourite days... Reimagined Monday!

Today's post is a great example of how to update an older style bedframe to something fresh and fit for any child's or youth's room.

Here is the headboard and footboard in it's natural state... pretty common and plain:

Mista Zaugg pondered the colour options and came up with a fabulous combination that works well for a boy's or girl's room.

After some jazzing up with Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint in Kitchen Scale, and a few touches of Emperor's Silk in Chalk Paint® by Annie Sloan, Voila!

Youth bed - MMS Milk Paint in 'Kitchen Scale'

Just the right amount of Chalk Paint® in 'Emperor's Silk'

The finished project:

If you love this bed, it can be yours. As much as she had fun reimagining it, Mista is selling it (side rails included) for just $225 and is already prepping for her next project.

To purchase, contact us at Apple Box Boutique, or email Mista at cscliegh@gmail.com.

What have YOU Reimagined?  

Send in your project pics and be entered to win our Reimagined Monday draw!

Reimagined Monday Draw

We would like to highlight more customer projects!  Send us your before/during/after pictures and tell us about your creative process and you'll be entered into our monthly Reimagined Monday draw.

Each month we will give away a different item like paint, brushes, books, supplies, gift certificates and more. You don't have to be featured to be eligible... the month you enter is the month you will be included in the draw. 

Send your name, pictures and story to:

info@appleboxboutique.com and win!

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Apple Box Boutique

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The Colours Behind The Inspiration: Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint

'The colours behind the inspiration' are those in Miss Mustard Seed's new line of designer Milk Paints and we are very happy to announce that all twelve are currently in transit to Apple Box Boutique.

We have been eagerly awaiting its arrival, and are SO excited that in just a few days all of us will be able to bring that inspiration to life!

We have a feeling this first order won't last long so we've made the full line of Milk Paint available for purchase in The Apple Cart, our online shop. That way all of our out-of-town customers can dream in colour too!

Watch our next Reimagined Monday blog for Miss Mustard Seed's final paint colour reveal project.

In the meantime we thought we would share the piece in our studio that has been awaiting its MMS Milk Paint transformation:

We'd love to know what your first project will be.

Don't keep us in suspense... what will you be painting?

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Apple Box Boutique

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Our Big News: Pre-Order Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint!

Over the last week we have been featuring projects by Miss Mustard Seed using her beautiful new milk paint and your enquiries have been pouring in.

The biggest question has been, "when will it be in the boutique?" There is so much anticipation about rushing in to get some before the first shipment sells out that we asked for the green light to do something new... and today we get to share the happy news!

Are you ready?  We are!...

Yes! Starting today we will be offering Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint to our customers before it is even on the shelves!

We couldn't be more excited!!! 
 

Visit our website at
www.appleboxboutique.com

and select Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint from the Shop Online menu.
or

Click here to be the first to be notified of our upcoming milk paint classes! 

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Apple Box Boutique

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Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Reveal - Day 5

It's day 5, the last in our week of Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint reveals!  Today we will feature two more colours, bringing the grand total to 8 of the 12 this designer line will launch with.

Why just 8, you ask?  Because the focus of our reveal series was to share real-world projects using the paint, and Miss Mustard Seed is diligently working away on the other 4.  Oh, the anticipation!

In the meantime, lets get straight to it!

We thought we would wait until today to show you the very first colour created and then the most recent colour to have been photographed, and at the end of this post we'll give a sneak-peek of the final four colours!

As Miss Mustard Seed herself would put it, "Say Hello To..."

Shutter Gray

Shutter Gray was the first colour in Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint line. Just a touch of blue makes this a lovely cool grey, reminding Marian of a perfect set of chippy grey shutters she owns and loves.

The test piece is this French dresser -- gorgeous lines but very orange!

One of the coolest things about Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint is that you can leave the bonding agent out of the mix, allowing the painted piece to chip and 'wear' naturally.

It doesn't happen every time, in fact it can be downright unpredictable and not chip at all. We know this isn't for everyone, but for folks like us at Apple Box Boutique it is like Christmas... after painting, hit the sheets and wake up the next morning to some glorious shabby chicness!

Like this...

Oooooo... the perfect amount of distressing, au natural!

We are loving Shutter Gray!

Next up... as promised, the latest Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint reveal project to be completed.

Be still my vintage-loving heart!  Here comes...

Kitchen Scale

Miss Mustard Seed wrote:

"Here’s how this piece started…

Yeah, it’s hard to believe it’s the same piece, isn’t it?

Here’s why I named the color Kitchen Scale…

The color isn’t exactly the same.  My aqua has more green in it, but this scale was my inspiration.

I love how this paint finish turned out.  It only chipped in a few small places, but the entire finish had this wonderful texture.  You can see it if you look closely…

I decided to jazz up the dresser with some branches and blossoms.  I’ve enjoyed the decorative painting I’ve done lately and it seemed fitting for this piece.  It’s a very petite dresser, so it’s perfect for a little girl’s room or guest room.

It chipped just a little bit around one of the knobs.

Since it’s a busy pattern, I kept the decorative painting to the drawer fronts only."

OKAY!  We can breathe again ;)

If the first 8 colours look this fantastic, just imagine how the final 4 will look life-sized:

Recap

If you missed our posts fetauring the other colour reveals, here they are…

Flow Blue  

Mustard Seed Yellow 

Lucketts Green  

Tricycle 

Typewriter 

French Enamel

This is so much fun, and we are really excited to have you along for the fun!

If you like what you've been seeing this week, stop in at On The Apple Box again tomorrow for another big announcement!

[ Insert squeals of delight ]... We can hardly wait!!!

Click here to be the first to be notified of our upcoming milk paint classes! 

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Apple Box Boutique

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