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Large Breakfront Hutch Makeover – Tuesday’s Treasures

White Sand Hutch

Hi Friends!

I hope you had a great weekend! Mine was fantastic both personally and professionally! We hosted our Earth Day Upcycling Contest this past Saturday. It was such a great event, and I am so grateful for those who participated. My hope is that perhaps it served to inspire others to think creatively and to consider repurposing and upcycling! Congratulations to Tami, our Grand Prize Winner and to Ryan, our Staff Pick Winner!

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At FunCycled, we love working with clients to help restore and breathe new life into old pieces of furniture. Whether it is a chair, a side table, or bedroom furniture, taking something that is tired and refreshing it truly brings life to me and my team!

My friend and past client Brielle reached out to me to see if I could help her find a hutch for her dining room. She had a large, empty wall so we knew we had to find something large and tall. She gave me her budget and I got to work! In less than a day, I found this beauty and picked it up for her. It’s over 85″ long, and so full of character!! Take a look at the before photo:

We painted the whole piece (inside and out) in Benjamin Moore’s White Sand (image below). White Sand is a beautiful neutral color which met the goal of brightening up this hutch and yet keeping it warm.

And just check out this lovely transformation! With a lighter color paint, you are now able to appreciate the details of the molding at the top and edges of this hutch. Plus, the lighter color helps highlight the window lattice on the glass doors. Put simply, it is beautiful!

Here’s a closer look at the details! We also changed the hardware for our client to bring a more modern touch to the finished look!

A huge thanks to Brielle for hiring us to do take on this furniture project. We are so glad you love the outcome! We do, too : )

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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Reimagining for Impact: Funcycled’s Earth Day Contestants

Hi friends!

I hope you had a great weekend!

Since the start of April, it has been a crazy whirlwind of life! Every day I am thankful for so many opportunities and especially when we get to make an impact within the Capital Region! In today’s Tuesday’s Treasure, I want to give an update on FunCycled’s Upcyling Contest.

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Just over a month ago, we launched the 2024 Earth Day Upcycling Contest and for the past several weeks, we have been organizing, compiling, and planning for our conclusion of this contest as we host the Earth Day Upcycling Contest Award Ceremony Celebration which will be this coming Saturday, April 20th at Sand Lake Merchant. I know we have had a flurry of activity, but read on to get all of the details about the upcycled projects, how to vote, and to find out when we’ll be announcing the winner at our Award Ceremony!

THE CONTESTANTS & THEIR PROJECTS

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE

If you have not yet had a chance to vote for your favorite, you still can! Voting remains open until tomorrow, April 17th until 9 pm. Here’s the scoop!

Links for Voting:

CELEBRATE WITH US – AWARD CEREMONY & GRAND PRIZE

We invite everyone to gather at Sand Lake Merchant to enjoy some Upcycled creations and celebrate our winner! 

Thanks to everyone who is supporting this event and recognizes the importance of repurposing and upcylcing!

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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Creamy and Confusing to Bold and Beautiful: One Capital District homeowner makes RED her color of inspiration!

Red and Cream Kitchen Makeover

Hi Friends!

If I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times, your home should reflect you! Today, I want to give a shout out to Josephine, a recent client located in East Greenbush, who was bold enough to take her too many shades of cream kitchen and transform it into a bold new kitchen space, featuring one of her favorite colors, RED!

When we first met, Josephine shared with me that she is not afraid of color and after a quick tour of her home, that sentence became true fact! I love when clients know who they are and are not afraid to let that shine with the choices they make in their home! Join me as I share her story and kitchen update with you.

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It’s ALL cream, so why doesn’t it look right?

Take a look at these before photos of her kitchen. Note the 5 (at least) shades of cream and beige happening. Her walls were one color, the cabinets another, the crown molding yet another and NONE of it matched her lovely dining table and hutch (both also a creamy color of some kind) which sit within her kitchen space. It’s all cream, so it goes, right? WRONG!

So what do you do when it close but not quite right?

We knew that there were several things that would remain in this space, so we began there:

  • the appliances
  • the floor
  • the backsplash
  • the counters
  • and you guessed it, her red decor living around the room!

After realizing what would stay, we needed to determine how to pull eliminate the clashing shades of cream and pull all of the other elements together. Oh, and in the process, it was determined the the red clock (pictured in the lower left photo) was a piece of inspiration! With a little planning and discussing with Josephine (and the help of her SIL), we had a plan!

Here was the plan of ACTION!

  • Paint the upper cabinets in Benjamin Moore Natural Cream
  • Paint the lower cabinets in Benjamin Moore Heritage Red WITH a glazed finish
  • Paint the walls Benjamin Moore Swiss Coffee
  • Make sure the trim and furniture pieces coordinated with the rest of the room – so we painted the large hutch and dining table in the same Natural Cream as the upper cabinets
  • To add a layer of sophistication, we decided to paint her dining chairs in Valspar’s Lincoln Cottage Black

Voila! The outcome is stunning! Check out these after photos!

Red and Cream Kitchen
Red and Cream Kitchen
Black and White Dining

A huge thanks to Josephine for letting us work with you! We loved this project, and we are so glad you chose FunCycled to to do the kitchen cabinet painting  and accompanying work for you!

It is a beautiful transformation!! 

Could your kitchen use an update? We’d love to help!! We can help pick out colors, finishes, product and do the cabinet painting, tiling, add new hardware. You can use our Contact Us form to request our design services or a quote for painting your kitchen. Please check out other kitchen projects on our For Sale page. We’ll need to see a picture of your kitchen, a list of how many doors and drawers there are, and where you are located to email you an estimate. This change ups the value of your home and gives you a whole new look at a fraction of the cost of new kitchen cabinets!

Don’t Forget to VOTE: Earth Day Upcycling Contest sponsored by FunCylced

If you follow along, you know that we are sponsoring an upcycling contest in honor of Earth Day. Voting opens this week, so be sure to watch on our social media channels to select your favorite upcycled project and cast your vote! Click on the image below for additional information and details.

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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Flipped Furniture Frenzy!

Hi Friends!

If you follow us on social media, you probably know that FunCycled has been generating some really great furniture flips recently, and the best part…EVERYTHING you see here is IN STOCK!! But what you might not know is that furniture flipping is how FunCycled first began!! Join me down memory lane and also to get a full overview of our current inventory, plus our latest Featured Furniture Collection.

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Memory Lane

In 2012, my husband John and I saw an opportunity to share our passion and know how for furniture flipping! I have always been creative, and I found this creativity to really take flight when I found moments to restore something broken or unused by refreshing it, repurposing it, and transforming into a new treasure! Check out some pics from back in the day!

Current Pieces

From this painted and stained buffet to vintage storage trunks (great for coffee tables or toy corralling!) to end tables and night stands, FunCycled has some amazing pieces in our inventory! Take a look! Be sure to click on each image to get full details. BTW, the cutie black end stand with gold legs is a set of two! Can you stand it?!

If you see a treasure that would be perfect for your space, reach out to me on our Contact Us page or you can email me directly and let me know what piece you would like!

Featured Collection

This collection comes with a larger piece which could be used as a dresser or even a buffet or sideboard as well as two side tables for night stands or even end tables for a living room! Also check out that before photo!

Check out some close ups and details of this collection! The double stripe and black and gold hardware add a touch of flair and I can’t get over how much I love the retractable doors the open to additional storage! LOVE!!

Each piece has been painted in Benjamin Moore’s Steam and stained with a mix of gray and brown stains that I had on hand–sometimes that just the perfect shade!

Again, if you see a piece (or more!) that you would like for your home, reach out to me on our Contact Us page.

Want some helpful tips on how to complete your own furniture flip, check out this how-to blog: HOW TO PAINT FURNITURE LIKE A PRO!

DON’T FORGET

FUNCYCLED IS SPONSORING OUR UPCYCLING CONTEST! (Click the image below for more details.)

Earth Day 2024

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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Outdated Oak Kitchen gets the Full Makeover Treatment!

Hi Friends!

We recently spent time with one of our clients whose kitchen was not only stuck in the past, it was not the most functional, and our clients knew they needed a change! From freshly painted cabinets & new hardware to new counters, adding backsplash and helping to customize their island (the wow factor at the end!), our clients made the most of everything, and the outcome is AMAZING!

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Take a look at the before photos. The kitchen has a decent amount of storage, but the layout of the cabinets was not ideal. These cabinets were outdated and needed new life, and the shelf below the small high up cabinets was not functional, so we needed to make sure that was corrected!

First, we took these tired, oak cabinets and painted them in Benjamin Moore Simply White (a perfect go-to) and added new hardware. We also replaced the microwave shelf and small uppers with a full sized new upper cabinet for more storage. Then we installed backsplash and new counters. This quartz counter is durable and beautiful, and the tile selection is such a great complement to the refreshed island!

Next, we moved on to the kitchen island. To really make this island stand out, we added shiplap around the base, painted it in Benjamin Moore’s Smokestack Gray and installed a beautiful farmhouse sink (AKA apron sink) with a coordinating faucet.

Check out this amazing view of the before and after of the outdated oak island to island turned statement!

To complete the room, we added board and batten, then our client painted it Benjamin Moore’s Simply White, around the room to add texture and timeless character to the space.

If you’ve with me long enough you know that to really finish a space you have to consider all of the details, and that is just exactly what we did with this kitchen makeover! It is beautiful! Check out some final pictures!

A huge thanks to Stephanie for letting us work with you! We loved this project, and we are so glad you chose FunCycled to to do the kitchen cabinet painting  and accompanying work for you!

It is a beautiful transformation!! 

Could your kitchen use an update? We’d love to help!! We can help pick out colors, finishes, product and do the cabinet painting, tiling, add new hardware. You can use our Contact Us form to request our design services or a quote for painting your kitchen. Please check out other kitchen projects on our For Sale page. We’ll need to see a picture of your kitchen, a list of how many doors and drawers there are, and where you are located to email you an estimate. This change ups the value of your home and gives you a whole new look at a fraction of the cost of new kitchen cabinets!

REMEMBER, FUNCYCLED IS SPONSORING OUR UPCYCLING CONTEST! (Click the image below for more details.)

Earth Day 2024

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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Spring is Here, Capital Region!

Vintage Turquoise Buffet

Hi Friends!

Happy first day of Spring! Sometimes we are tempted to think it will never come, especially after a cold and snow-filled Winter (which we have not had), but here it is! Spring has arrived!

In today’s Tuesday’s Treasure, I want to share some inspiration for all of us as we transition from Winter to Spring.

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Colors for Spring

At this point in the year, most of us are ready for something a little brighter in our homes. Check out these Spring inspired pieces of furniture we have been able to complete over the years!

Choosing the Right Color

With so many choices, it can be hard to know the how to make the right selection. To add a touch of Spring, I suggest choosing colors that are light and bright and remind you of what is happening outside as Spring arrives. Because the full bloom of colors doesn’t typically arrive until May and June in Upstate New York, I like to introduce greens and blues along with shades of white and gray. But you can also select other pastel colors to add a touch of color while still feeling bright and airy! Here are a few tips for making the selection for you:

  • Keep in mind the style of the piece of furniture and what type of hardware it has or will have if you plan to change it.
  • Consider what other colors you have in your space. Remember, they don’t have to be an exact match, but they should coordinate.
  • If this is a new color you would like to introduce to your home, make sure to add a few other touches of that same color around the room.
  • Take note of a bigger vision you have for the space, keeping in mind this might be a first step toward that vision!

Find these inspirational color pallets for your next project!

(photos credit to M4 Designs FL care of Etsy)

Ways to Style

This is where you get to have a lot of fun! A “go to” item for me is styling with books! They add height, texture, and interest. Or grab a vase or pretty glass bottle in a bright or complementary color and add fresh greens. Depending upon your style and what you love, use the surface to display a special heirloom or antique, like this vintage camera atop the beautiful teal and gray-washed credenza.

If you want to buy one of our repurposed pieces of furniture, visit our Shop page.

If you have a piece in your home and you want it custom painted, we can help! We work with clients all the time to bring new life to their old, tired pieces of furniture. Reach out to me on our Contact Us page.

To learn more about custom painting and tips to do the job right, visit our Custom Furniture Painting page.

REMEMBER, FUNCYCLED IS SPONSORING OUR UPCYCLING CONTEST! (Click the image below for more details.)

Earth Day 2024

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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A Celebration of GREEN!

Green Kitchen Cabinets

Hi friends!

Well it is just about here and in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, let’s celebrate green! I mean isn’t that what we should do?! Speaking of green, remember that we’ve launched our Earth Day Upcycling Contest. Redo something and share before and after photos HERE for a chance to win!

Earth Day 2024

Over the years we have refreshed, updated, and repurposed countless numbers of kitchens, making them over into new and fresh spaces our clients want to spend time in with friends and family! Join me as I share some of my favorite GREEN kitchen makeovers, and I hope you will stick with me to the end to learn a few cool facts about St. Patrick himself and to gain a better understanding of why green is so essential this time of year and how to bring that into our homes!

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Here are some of my favorites over the years!

DID YOU KNOW?

Originally, the color of St. Patrick’s Day was blue (it’s true-Google it!). Seen in this early depiction of St. Patrick himself, blue garments were donned during early feast celebrations in honor of St. Patrick. It wasn’t until the late 1800’s when the color association shifted from blue to green (TIME magazine article).

Mosaic of St. Patrick

Image Credit to FLIKR c/o Pinterest

WHY GREEN?

Okay, so besides the festivities of St. Patrick’s Day, what is it about green that we love so much this time of year?

Green elicits feelings of harmony and peace and is associated with growth and renewal. I think all of these emotions are things we all want to feel and cultivate in our everyday lives. For that reason, green makes a great color option for anyone’s home! Whether it is embracing a full paint project in your kitchen, refurbishing a tired piece of furniture, replacing pillow covers, or placing fresh greens inside or out, green is more than just a color for St. Patrick’s Day-it’s a color we can love any time of year in any place in our homes!

If you would like to know more about getting your kitchen painted (green or otherwise!), or maybe you have a piece of furniture that could use a facelift, check out the links below to learn more about those services! I would love to help!

Kitchen Cabinet Painting

Furniture Makeovers on our Projects Page

Or you can reach out to us on our Contact Us page where you will find additional details about working with us!

DON’T FORGET THE EARTH DAY UPCYCLING CONTEST HAPPENING NOW! Click the image below for more details!

Earth Day 2024

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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FunCycled Announces Earth Day Upcycling Contest

Earth Day 2024

Hi friends!

I hope you had a great weekend!

For today’s Tuesday Treasure, I want to shift gears a little and get us pumped about an upcoming event near and dear to us here at FunCycled. As you may know, one thing we love to do is give new purpose to items that may seem old or outdated and refresh them with new purpose. After all, that is the mission and heart of what we do!

A few years ago, FunCycled began hosting a special contest in honor of Earth Month, recognized during the month of April. Over the past few years the contest has changed a bit, but today we are so excited to share that we are once again hosting this contest- all of which will culminate with a VERY special event on April 20, 2024 with the BIG REVEAL of our contest winner! Below are all the details you need to know.

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WHAT IS THE EARTH DAY UPCYCLING CONTEST?

The Earth Day Upcycling contest is designed to showcase your creativity or share your innovation by upcycling objects and giving them new purpose. Take a look around your house and I guarantee you will find something that might be headed for the trash, but if you look at it with a different lens, you can repurpose it and make it new again!

WHAT ITEMS CAN BE UPCYCLED?

Here’s the fun part! ANYTHING can be repurposed and submitted for the contest. You can upcycle clothes, wood, furniture, books, metal, or any other thing that is headed for the trash and you see a way to upcycle it into a new treasure!

For some inspiration, check out these upcycled creations! (photos from Pinterest – click photo for original source)

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Anyone and everyone! We invite all people from around the Capital District to join in. The point is to encourage ALL of us to take something old and make it new again by giving it a new purpose! Even if you aren’t too sure if this project is for you, tell someone else about it! And you never know, as you share, it may spark an idea!

HOW DO I ENTER THE CONTEST?

Here are the details of how to take part in this fun project and enter the contest!

  • Make a plan for your vision (remember to take before photos)
  • Create you new up cycled item
  • Submit your information, including a before and after photo of your project to FunCycled by completing this FORM (reminder, photos due by April 7th.)

HOW IS THE WINNER DETERMINED?

Once we have compiled the submissions, we will share everyone’s creations and begin collecting votes. Here’s what you need to know:

  • FunCycled will share the submitted photos on our social media channels (Facebook, Pinterest, & Instagram Stories) on April 10th
  • We will ask for people to cast votes for their favorite creation by liking the corresponding photo
  • Voting will conclude on April 17th at 9 pm
  • The photo with the most votes on our social media pages wins!

HERE’S THE SCOOP ON VOTING

Click to watch the video!

HOW IS THE WINNER ANNOUNCED?

After we have tallied all of the votes, FunCycled will host a special event at our Award Ceremony Celebration on Saturday, April 20, 2024, hosted by Sand Lake Merchant. We invite all participants and their friends and family to join us to celebrate the winner and to champion efforts in Upcycling and repurposing in honor of Earth Month. Contestants can feel free to bring small Upcycled projects to the award ceremony!

WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON APRIL 20, 2024?

Mark this date and remember to keep it open because you could be the winner! That day, we invite everyone to gather at Sand Lake Merchant, located at 2869 NY Highway 43, Averill Park, NY 12018, to enjoy some Upcycled creations and celebrate our winner! Keep an eye out for more information on our social media channels as we get closer!

SO WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT?

Your next step is to collect your thoughts and gather your materials to get your creation going and then submit to us ASAP! Oh, and don’t forget to share about this contest with your friends and family! The more, the merrier!

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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Rundown to Renewed: This Cohoes Home Gets a Kitchen Makeover

Light Gray Kitchen

Hi Friends!

Have you ever considered giving your kitchen a new look, but not sure where to begin? In today’s blog, I want to share with you the story of my clients who recently purchased a 3,200 square foot Colonial home in Cohoes, NY. While the house boasts ample living space and plenty of storage, the style of the home didn’t quite match the style my clients were seeking to express in their new home. That’s where the FunCycled team comes in!

With over 12 years of experience working in the Capital Region, we have worked with several clients to understand their personal style and needs, so completing this kitchen makeover to match the outcome for them was our joy!

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Take a look at the before photos. The kitchen is large and functional but the cabinets were outdated and needed new life.

Now check out the after photos! What a difference!

We kept the layout completely the same, and the counters as well as the backsplash remained in place. Simply painting the cabinets gave this tired kitchen the facelift it needed!

Cabinets were painted in Benjamin Moore Stonington Gray and the Island in Benjamin Moore Slate Teal, both with a lacquer finish to ensure the paint is sealed well.

Please note, the true color of the island was not well translated in these after photos, but the finished product was too beautiful to not share it with you! And check out that hardware transformation! What a difference. The black and gold (curiously the same I used in my own home!) really elevates this kitchen and also make it an easy match for other hardware choices in the home!

Below are the swathes for the two paint colors

Benjamin Moore Slate Teal Paint
Photo courtesy of Pinterest
Benjamin Moore Stonington Gray Paint
Photo courtesy of Pinterest

A huge thanks to Laura and Greg for hiring us to do the kitchen cabinet painting work. 

It is a beautiful transformation!! 

Could your kitchen use an update? We’d love to help!! We can help pick out colors, finishes, product and do the cabinet painting, tiling, add new hardware. You can use our Contact Us form to request our design services or a quote for painting your kitchen. Please check out other kitchen projects on our For Sale page. We’ll need to see a picture of your kitchen, a list of how many doors and drawers there are, and where you are located to email you an estimate. This change ups the value of your home and gives you a whole new look at a fraction of the cost of new kitchen cabinets!

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )

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Magnolia Castle Tour Highlights

Chip and Joanna Gaines Magnolia Castle

Hi Friends! 

I hope you all had a great weekend!

A couple of weeks ago (as some of you know), I spent a few days down in Waco visiting one of my favorite spots – Magnolia and the Silos. During my trip, I ventured to the Magnolia Castle with my mom and girlfriends and discovered firsthand why this place is so special! The castle was my favorite part of our Waco trip!

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Although the castle first began to be built in 1890, it didn’t reach any sort of completion until 1913. From this time to 1977, the property and castle structure thrived and in 1977, under the guidance of its owner, the castle received historical designation. Unfortunately, during the 1990’s until 2019, the castle wasn’t well maintained, causing damage and the need for great repair. That’s when the heroes of our story (hint, that’s Chip and Joanna) stepped in and purchased the castle. And, of course, their main mission: to restore the castle to its intended glory! To learn more about the castle and the story behind its renovation, click here.

Although I had seen enough pictures, watched plenty of videos, and dreamed plenty of dreams to feel like I had been there already, I realized quickly that there was no way everything I viewed or dreamed could capture the magnificence of the castle and the experience it gives you!

One thing that left a big impression is that the design throughout is careful to maintain the integrity of the original structure, even its earliest iterations from 1890. While I love the style we now so quickly associate with the dynamic Gaines duo (who doesn’t love all things Magnolia?!), I appreciate that this project displays the value of keeping the history of the castle in tact, even down to the design elements and choices. Here are a few of my favorite photos that I took during our trip.

It was not surprising to find special moments around every corner, but as soon as I walked into the dining room I was just amazed! The level of detail is outstanding, and I LOVE that the vibe is completely moody! From the wallpaper selection to the painted black ceiling, guests at this table must feel completed enraptured by the moody colors and the dark atmosphere, exhibiting the perfect touch of ambiance.

Because the style of the castle is so very different from the many projects completed by Magnolia, during the process, Joanna Gaines developed a full line of paint colors to complete every room. Though encompassing a range of colors, including a family of white tones, this line is rich and full of deep tones, giving a beautiful nod to the history and story of this enchanting structure. Check out the full line here.

Photo credit to magnolia.com

Also, while we were there, we ate at a fabulous Italian restaurant nearby. Characterized by authentic Italian cuisine, Moroso more than delivered on service and taste! It is an ABSOLUTE MUST when visiting Waco! Below our some pics of the yummy dishes we ordered: Ravioli Di Zucca, a delicious butternut squash ravioli with sage, & classic wood fired pizza, Margherita style!

I want to give my girls a big shout out for being my traveling buddies and happy companions during our visit and tour of the castle! I would do it again in a heartbeat!

And in case you missed it, this is not my first trip to Waco, in fact it is my 7th trip : ) In a recent blog post, I shared all about our stay at the  Gathering Oaks Retreat Center and announced that I’m considering doing ladies Waco Trip for any FunCycled fan in early 2025 and renting out the whole retreat center!! To read the full blog, click here. AND If you’d be interested in learning more about this, and being on the email list for more detailed information, please fill out this form.

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