Hi Friends!
How are you? We just got home from an amazing vacation with most of my family at Ocean City, NJ! It was HOT last week and that’s exactly what I love. It made the salty ocean warm enough for me to actually want to swim in it. We had so so much fun! Here are some pics I thought you might enjoy from the trip…
This week’s project was nothing less than a complete delight to work on. Susan has been a huge FunCycled fan since we first made over of her daughter’s bedroom set. We then built a custom maple table and matching buffet for her dining room. She also bid on and won a dresser from our Hope International blog auction. The newest project was designing a room for their vacation lake house in Vermont. She loves grays and greens and all things nature inspired. We custom built this headboard and end stands for the guest room.
Susan also wanted to upcycle something she already owned so she asked me if I could somehow incorporate this dresser to make it work in the room. Or course!!! I love to give new life to furniture our customers already own.
We sanded and stained the drawer fronts with a mixture of gray/brown stains. The outside of the dresser is painted with the color Navajo White by Benjamin Moore. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. We replaced all of the hardware as well.
I really wanted to incorporate ferns into the design of the room. Susan likes ferns and greens and I have always loved ferns. At our first house we had lots of ferns in a little city-sized back yard. I adored them! One day a friend decided to help me landscape and ripped almost all of them out. I was devastated and she may never live that down… I’m a bitter soul. lol On the day she moved into her new home; years later, I brought her a big potted fern. :) All that to say, I enjoyed incorporating something I love so much into a design. Ready for the after?
And a close up of the details…
I free handed the fern on the front. So that part you’ll have to eye ball. ;) Here’s a quick before and after picture for Pinterest!
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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)
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