Author: Sarah

I am so excited about this week's Tuesday's Treasures. Do I say that too often? Not only was this a really fun and different redesign, it went to an amazing couple and their two beautiful little girls. (Who both of…

Hello Friends! This week's Tuesday's Treasures brings you another piece that went to my friend Tiffany... this baby was what started the entire process and led to Dining Room Chairs, that led to a Red Chandelier, that led to a vintage…

Happy Tuesday, everyone!! We've had an awesome week thanks to the Anchor No. 5 debut, filling my friend Tiffany's house with 12 transformed pieces and taking in lots of custom orders. Thanks everyone! I can't thank you enough for your…

Hi All! Thanks to Petra over at Anchor No. 5 Boutique in downtown Troy, we are now featuring new furniture pieces each month at her shop.  I thought it would be fun to post each month letting you know which…

Here's another makeover for you. I found these beauties along side the road for free. Who throws something like this out?? Ahhh... ! Want a quick history lesson about them? No... yeah sure you do. :) They are called Panton…

I hope you all were able to enjoy the weekend! We had a really fun, relaxing weekend with my dear friend Theresa and her family. On this week's Tuesday's Treasures, I wanted to share a book case makeover. Here she is!  I…

Happy Tuesday everybody! I haven't had much extra time to tell you what I've been up to lately. My dear friend Tiffany, over at Invitealiscious, emailed me a month or two ago to ask if I could design a couple…

I hope you are all having a great weekend. I just couldn't wait to share these colorful chairs with you. We just created them as a custom order for my friend Tiffany. Stay tuned for this weeks Tuesday's Treasures to…

This week's Tuesday's Treasure started in shambles - read through and you'll see what this beauty was to begin with. Here's what she looked like before. I really couldn't even do a before picture of the mirror because it was…

Tomorrow is the 4th of July! I hope you all have some fun plans for the day. We are planning to take the kids to the roof top of a parking garage in downtown Albany to watch the fireworks. We…

Hope you all had a great weekend! This week's redesign was a lot of fun! It was one of those project where everything went RIGHT for once. :) Gotta love those! My friend Jo Ann and I went shopping at…

Hello to our new fans and to all those we met at the Troy River Street Festival this past weekend. I hope you had a great time at the festival, I know we did! It was so much fun working…

If you aren't a fan of our Facebook page, you may not know yet that I quit my job. I officially finished last week and I'm nervous, but really excited about having the extra time to devote to FunCycled and…

Have you spent hours and hours working on a piece of furniture, got to the final step of sealing the piece, and the Polycrilic turned your piece yellow in spots? I've read so much about the fact that you shouldn't…

I've been wanting to do something with a chevron design for what feels like a bazillion years. OK - maybe 4-5 months and here it was, finally - this dresser screamed "give me chevron!". My mom called me because she…

As you know, we've been busy here and I'm not complaining!! I'm loving the custom jobs and new creations! It's just that I haven't had a ton of time to post all of the fun things. I simply MUST make…

We've been busy here redoing a few different end tables. Instead of doing a post about each one, I thought I would show you the before and after of them. To see how we painted each one, visit our post…

Ok, please don't hate me, but I forgot to take a before picture of this next piece. How could I do that?? I'm sorry! So, it was all wood and it was in good shape, but just looked outdated. I…

This dresser was in really good shape to start with so it made for an easy makeover. To see the steps on how to paint furniture so our post How To Paint Furniture We used Benjamin Moore Low Luster Wood…

Some projects that we work on go quickly, some are tedious and some are just a huge pain in my booty! This dining room table was redone so many times, but it also shows that you shouldn't settle for less…

I liked the shape of this coffee table from the get go and wanted to buy it. John gave me a look in front of the guy selling it like, Are you kidding me! Then smiled and said, "If you like…

This little book case was given to us by a man we met right near our house who was throwing out a dresser. My dad saw it and asked if we could come get it. We started talking to him…

I fell in love with the design of this dresser. I know you can't tell from this picture, but even the handles of the middle drawer are lion heads. I wanted to give this a distressed look. If you want…

Here's the before picture of this monster! It was in pretty rough shape, sitting at the end of the road, waiting to be junked. It was right down the road from our house and John and I were on the…

Hi FunCycled Friends!! Are you stopping by to see how to transform your furniture? We're here to help you repurpose your furniture piece! Since painting has the same steps no matter what the piece, we've created this page to help everyone!…