White Dove Hutch Makeover for Loudonville Home – Tuesday’s Treasure

Hi friends!

I hope you had a great weekend! Maybe you have been doing some traveling, or maybe you are currently on a little getaway! Every year, my family and I go away during 4th of July week to a local campground where we can just relax and get off the grid for a bit! I love the simplicity of it and being a little more intentional and quiet with our time!

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!

For one of my clients, Darcy, she and her husband were in the midst of selling one house and making the move to a new location in the Capital Region. As part of their plans, Darcy and her husband wanted to find a way to incorporate a special piece of furniture into the design of their new kitchen. When we met with Darcy to talk through her ideas, Darcy shared some photos of the total the kitchen renovation taking place in her new home and talked about how she was hoping to make her oversized secretary hutch to work with the design. Take a look at some before photos below. The photo in the middle is from our studio as we began prepping to paint!

What I love the most about this type of project is seeing the true craftsmanship of furniture! For Darcy’s piece, there is something extra about it though. I love the scale of it and the fact that it has shelves above enclosed behind detailed glass and ample closed in storage below–all surrounding the desk & accompanying compartments which live at the very center of the piece! To me, it could boast a million uses, but I guess its intent is to remain for exactly its purpose in Darcy’s new home! If you want to know more about the history and origin of secretary desks (sometimes I just have to scratch that curiosity itch!), I found this really cool article: What Exactly is a Secretary Desk and What is it Used for?

For this project, we used Benjamin Moore’s White Dove on the whole piece. I love the warmth of this beautiful white!

And here are some after photos, including some close ups of the detail work on this hutch. See what I mean about the craftsmanship? It is so stunning! You will see that Darcy decided to keep the original hardware for this

And some additional close ups of the beautiful detials!

Bonus: How FunCycled Does Hutches Secretary Desks

I have pulled together some of our hutch and secretary desk upcycled projects over the years! Take a look and be inspired!

Below I have pulled together 3 inspiration photos to share with you in case you are looking to have a beautifully painted hutch or secretary for your home and you would like to see some other offerings that maybe we have not shown above! I would love to take on any of these inspirations for you!

A huge thanks to Darcy or hiring us to do take on this furniture project. We loved breathing new life into this special piece for your new home!

If you have a hutch or secretary desk (or plan to get one soon!) and would like us to restore life back into it, contact me today by visiting our Contact Us page! You can also learn more about our process on our Custom Furniture Painting Page.

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Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ; )