Hi Friends!! Happy almost half way through the first month of the new year!!! If you missed it last week, I posted our Top 10 Most Popular Furniture Makeovers in 2014. I just pulled a report to see which pages were viewed the most (aka- what you guys liked reading about the most). I promised this week to share MY favorite makeovers from 2014. They are usually quite a bit different from each other. Without further ado… here are my favorite’s of last year. You can click on any title or picture to see the “how to” for each makeover and a little of the story behind each piece.

1) Mid Century White and Ombre Dresser

I would say of all the styles that I studied and fell in love with this year, stained front with the box painted a color would be my favorite. This one took my breath away! It had all of the right lines… making it my favorite for the year.

2) Black Broken Down Buffet 

This was one of your favorites just like it tops the list of my favorites. This was during a tough season for us. A slow cold winter and life changes with both of us doing this business full time. It’s funny how a furniture piece can say so much about a season of life to me. This one says… take something that everyone else would give up on, work hard on it, and it will become well worth it. We did. We are. It is.

3) Baseball Dresser 

I loved this dresser for so many reasons. It was a new idea that I wanted to try. Jill let me try it. She trusted me without reservation and I wanted her to be glad that she did. It was a fun piece while maintaining a classic, enduring style.

4) Nautical Map Dresser

This is just so much fun!! Another piece for our customer, Theresa, who first came to us for a nursery dresser and now has our furniture in just about every room. She let me design this one as her son moved up to his big boy room and the next baby would enjoy the Chevron Dresser we first designed.

5) Custom Made Pieces

I’m lumping two into one… forgive me please? ;) Last year we started offering custom built furniture. From dining room tables, to coffee tables and even fun upcycling projects like my porch swing. I had been wanting one of these beauties on my porch and a dining room table for years and John made them for me. Makes a girl feel loved… loved equals on the top ten list.

6) Color Consults and Customizing a House

Another huge stepping stone in 2014…  helping customers choose paint colors, custom designing furniture for their spaces, and sometimes even shopping together to pick out all of the accents. In this room, we did the interior painting, custom furniture design, decor and enjoyed every minute of it. Jess and Brent have become more than customers… our friends. This is only 1 of 5 rooms that we designed together last summer and I’ll be sharing more of the makeovers soon.

7) Vintage Teal Hutch with Arrow Hardware

Everyone seemed to fall in love with arrows this year… they were everywhere. I fell, too! I just couldn’t wait to design this whole piece around the hardware. Could anything compliment arrow hardware more than vintage teal and amazing modern fabric? In my opinion, no!

8) Mr. &  Mrs. Sophisticated

This made your top 10 list as well, as soon as I saw these… I wanted to get my hands on them. That sounded weird, but you get the idea. They were so unique and I knew RIGHT AWAY how I wanted to redo them. Thankfully, Mary Kyle was on board and such a enthusiast. She made me feel like a celebrity! Thanks for being awesome Mary Kyle.

9) Aqua Mid Century Ombre Desk

Man it’s so hard to number these! I love this one almost as much as #1! This desk was so unique… I’ve never worked with one like it. Click on the pic to see both side of it and more info about the makeover. It was so cool and it was featured in a magazine. Both reasons that this was a 2014 top 10 design for me.

10) Mustard Custom Wine Bar

This is last but most certainly not least. I loved the transformation of this piece! Everything from the little details about how John made the drawer look complete to how Kevin and Melanie gave me complete creative liberty…. I’m feeling like this is a resounding theme. lol

It’s been a fun year!! Thanks to all of you who’ve ordered furniture from us and a special thanks to those (like all the ones on this list) who gave me the freedom to be creative!! I LOVE working for you and we feel so blessed and humbled to be doing what we love every day.

And the highlights of our year would be getting to be on HGTV’s Flea Market Flip.

And getting to go on the free cruise from Rachel Ray Show!

Remember! If you’d like new furniture, let me paint something to put your furniture in the top 10 list next year! Please, pretty please? You can use our Contact Us form to request a quote to redo a piece that you already own or you can buy something from our Furniture For Sale page. 

Happy FunCycling friends!
Sarah