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Kitchen Cabinet Painted Hushed Hue by Benjamin Moore

Hi Friends!

How’s your week going? We just got back from a beautiful trip to France and London. I’ll do a post about the trip soon, but this week I have to keep it short while I’m playing catch up at work.

We recently did a kitchen makeover that I really loved and wanted to share photos for you!

Here’s the kitchen before:

We painted the kitchen cabinets with Benjamin Moore Hushed Hue #1520, added new hardware, and sprayed them with a protective clear coat. The client did a beautiful job taking care of the rest: new tile, new hood, beautiful island, moved the sink, altered some of the cabinets. Wow! What an amazing transformation!! You can barely tell it’s the same kitchen.

If you’d like to see how we paint Kitchen Cabinets, click here to check out our video on YouTube.

Ready for the after photos?

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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Behr’s Secluded Woods Dresser Makeover

Hi Friends!

How was your weekend? We had a great one!! I’ll share more details soon, but for this week’s makeover, I wanted to show you a dresser that we recently redid for our store.

Today, John and I celebrate our 19th anniversary! Nineteen years is enough reason to celebrate, but today feels even more special because I was married when I was 19. So this marks the start of being married more than half my life! If you want to see what special ways we are celebrating, be sure to follow our stories on Instagram and Facebook this week.

Here’s the dresser before:

We painted it Behr’s Secluded Woods color and added new hardware. We also removed some of the decorative details on the front that we didn’t like. We also sprayed it with a protective clear coat. 

If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. 

Ready for the afters?

The green from the trees throws off the coloring a bit. For a better representations, check out this photo from Home Depot:

This dresser is available soon to purchase! Head to our Shop Page to check see if it’s available! 

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. 

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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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Sick of peeling off wallpaper? Try this!

Hi Friends!

Do you have any childhood memories where you spent your Saturday’s pealing off old wallpaper? Remember that smell of vinager and water in a spray bottle, the little round tool that would scrape up the paper to let the vinegar and water solution soak in, and then the hours and hours and hours of pealing, scraping, and more pealing??? Well… me, too! That was many of my memories as a kid and I swore to myself that I would NEVER wallpaper a room in a house when I grew up. Never ever. No matter what.

Thankfully, I’ve learned there are some tricky ways around pealing old wallpaper off the wall. Plus, wallpaper has come a long way (a much less messy job to install).

This process isn’t something everyone would pick, but it really looks amazing in our foyer and saved us a SO MUCH time.

Here’s the foyer on the day we purchased our Repurposed Idea House:

If you have any pealing paper or damaged walls, fill it with spackle, sand it smooth, and clean it well before applying the wallpaper or vinyl to the walls.

We added 4′ plastic panels on the bottom half of the wall over top of the wallpaper and added wood strips between them to create board and batten with a top wood chair rail. Just used a little adhesive and a nail gun to hold them onto the wall with the boards supporting it.

We waited to install the chair rail until after we installed the wallpaper.

This wallpaper is a peal and stick wallpaper so it’s mess free to install and easy to remove if you change your mind. You can purchase it here:

We painted the boards and vinyl Simply White by Benjamin Moore.

John built this hallway bench out of an old 1800’s bed and I couldn’t love it more!

This vanity was my grandmothers and I painted it mustard.

My very favorite part of the design was this stair runner! The DIY for that will be in another post soon, but take a look at how beautiful it is!

Do you know how hard it is to find a pretty stair runner? Really hard! :)

Let me know your favorite part of the design in the comments below!

Could your foyer or mudroom use a facelift? Let me help you with the design! Check out more details about our Interior Design Services. 

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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Huge Kitchen Transformed with Paint – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

I’m so excited to share this week’s makeover with you because it’s a kitchen that feels like brand new thanks to painting the cabinet. I also love all the colors we’ve been asked to paint cabinets this year. This is a new color for us and it may be helpful to see on a wall, too:

Wetherburn's Blue CW-580 | Benjamin Moore

Here’s the kitchen before:

Aubrey reached out to us because she just bought this house and moved to the Albany area. She wanted it to feel traditional, but she also wanted a pop of color throughout the space. She really liked the idea of wainscoting on the backsplash instead of tile, and I encouraged her to have it painted the same color as the cabinets. We went back and forth on cabinet color for a bit before we finalized the details.

We painted the kitchen cabinets Wetherburn’s Blue by Benjamin Moore, painted the island Lincoln Cottage Black by Valspar and lightly distressed the island, added new hardware, installed wainscoting as the backsplash, and sprayed them with a protective clear coat. 

If you’d like to see how we paint Kitchen Cabinets, click here to check out our video on YouTube.

Ready for the after photos?

Stunning, isn’t it?? 💕

Thank you for letting us transform your kitchen, Aubrey! We loved working with you and your mom. 

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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Repurposed Idea House Master Bathroom Makeover

Hi Friends!

Hope you’re having a great week so far! I know, I know, it’s only Tuesday, but still! :) We are giddy happy over here because we just finished the makeover of our master bathroom. This bathroom technically worked fine so we made it really low on our priority list even though I use it every day so I really, really wanted to redo it. It’s been about 4 years into the makeover of our Repurposed Idea House. Our goal was to have everything done in 5 years and I think we may finish up a little early actually. We only have two more rooms left. Yay!!!

If you’d like to check out some of the other rooms, click here.

Here’s our master bathroom the day we walked through the house for the closing:

Which do you love more?? The black carpet or mint green walls? So hard to decide, right?

We ripped the carpet out first thing 🤮 and pulled down some of the tile, but we had to leave the shower tile. Here’s the shower as well.

I mean… the struggle was real in this tiny space.

Ready for the afters?

Stunning, isn’t it?

I feel like I get to shower in a high end airbnb every day!

Let’s go over some of the details.

  • The top half of the walls are Valspar’s Lincoln Cottage Black.
  • The bottom half is shiplap painted Benjamin Moore’s Simply White and installed vertically instead of horizontally.
  • John built the new vanity because we didn’t see anything the right size and price; then he added this sink top to it.
  • Kept the original mirror.
  • Installed a new vanity light.
  • Spray painted the radiator gold.
  • Displayed beautiful tiny portraits from my friend Beth, who’s an amazing artist.
  • Installed new flooring that I LOVE! It looks just like concrete and it always looks good! It doesn’t show anything!
  • For the shower, installed a floor pan, wall tile, nook tile, half wall, shower faucet, and stool.
  • Installed wainscoting on the ceiling and stained it with 50% special walnut and 50% classic gray.
  • Installed Roman Shade
  • Installed a new door that we bought from the Historic Albany Foundation Warehouse and then put it on a slider.

Here are some close up shots for you!

Artwork by Beth Norwood and gold radiator
Long nook with gray penny tile
Wooden roman shades, hanging plant, black walls with vertical shiplap.
Old door reclaimed into a sider door with frosted glass and powder room sign.

Could your bathroom use a facelift? Let me help you with the design! Check out more details about our Interior Design Services.

My brother, Nathan, who owns Revival Renovations was the contractor who actually did most of the work on this project. Reach out to him if you’re local and need a bathroom remodel!

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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Simple Benjamin Moore Blue Note Dresser Makeover

Hi Friends,

How are you today? I hope you had a nice weekend! We had a beautiful weekend celebrating Josh’s 14th birthday and Mother’s Day!

John also added a screen door on our front door for the first time this weekend which looks great!

For this week’s furniture makeover, I wanted to share a simple dresser makeover that we recently did as a custom order.

Here it is before:

We painted it Benjamin Moore’s color Blue Note and sprayed it with a protective clear coat. We even kept the original hardware as is.

If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. 

Ready for the afters?

This dresser set was done as a custom order, but head to our Shop Page to check out other available items! 

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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Heavily Distressed Black Dresser Set

Hi Friends!

How was your weekend? We had a beautiful one! Filled with church, friends, and family. One of my favorite moments was doing ministry side by side with my daughter. This is one of things I’ve dreamed about for years. I started a bi-annual women’s event called Ignite for women in the capital district to be encouraged in their faith and to also build community. We had an event last Saturday and Harmony helped with the hospitality team. Such a joy to my heart!

For this week’s furniture makeover, I wanted to share a transformation style that is absolutely timeless; check out these dresser before:

Tim reached out because these were his grandparents dressers, but the style didn’t work well for his house.

We painted it Benjamin Moore’s color Black then we heavily distressed it, painted the hardware black, and sprayed it with a protective clear coat. 

If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. 

Ready for the afters?

This dresser set was done as a custom order, but head to our Shop Page to check out other available items! 

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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Simple Bathroom Design Update

Hi Friends!

For all of you in upstate Ny with kids in school, I hope you all had a nice spring break last week and were able to enjoy time together as a family. We went on a weekend trip with friends to Gettysburg and it was so beautiful! Look at this old house:

For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a bathroom makeover that I recently helped design for my brother Jesse. They didn’t want a complete remodel, but did want to update the space a bit.

Here’s the bathroom before:

They had vinyl plank flooring left over from remodeling their downstairs flooring so they decided to use it in this area which I thought was a great idea.

They kept the original mirror so we had to pick a new vanity that would fit exactly and then they framed out the mirror with barn board instead of leaving it just a mirror.

They installed new lights above the vanity.

Wall color: Balboa Mist by Benjamin Moore.

Ready for the afters?

My other brother, Nathan, who owns Revival Renovations was the contractor who actually did the work on this project. Reach out to him if you’re local and need a bathroom remodel!

A huge thanks to Jesse and Jessica for asking me to be a part of this project. 

Could your bathroom use an update? We’d love to help!! We can help pick out colors, finishes, product for you. You can use our Contact Us form to request our design services.

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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Custom Painted Hutch

Hi Friends,

How are you? I hope your week is going well! We have had fun, busy month! Working hard to create beautiful spaces and repurpose as much as we can along the way!

For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a hutch makeover that we recently did for a client who was also getting her kitchen cabinets painted.

Here’s the hutch before:

We painted it Benjamin Moore’s color Hale Navy, painted the back of the hutch top Simply White, spray painted the hardware gold. Then we sprayed it with a protective clear coat. 

If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. 

Ready for the afters?

This hutch was done as a custom order so it’s sold, but head to our Shop Page to check out other available items! 

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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White Distressed Dresser Makeover

Hi Friends!

This week’s makeover is a cute, small transformation that makes a huge difference. We made this piece for FunCycled, but it sold before I could do a post about it.

Here it is before:

We painted it Benjamin Moore’s color Simply White. Then we heavily distressed it, added new hardware, and sprayed it with a protective clear coat.

If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. 

Ready for the afters?

This dresser is sold, but head to our Shop Page to check out other available items! 

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 ;)