For this week’s makeover, I’m not sharing a blue kitchen like last week’s makeover, but I AM sharing a navy hutch makeover that I adore. I especially like this one because it’s a unique hutch. Different from most and adorable!
Here it is before:
We painted it Benjamin Moore’s color Hale Navy. Then we lightly distressed it and sprayed it with a protective clear coat.
This hutch is available now to purchase! Head to our Shop Page to check them out!
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How was your weekend? If you have been a friend or FunCycled fan for long, you probably know that I love quality time with friends and family. The busier I am, the more it feels like a special gift. My bestie, MaryGrace, and I decided to skip on gifts for Christmas and wait to do a quick trip with each other instead.
This past weekend, we enjoyed a trip to Hudson, NY. I grew up near Hudson and, man, has it totally transformed over the years. It’s jam packed full of adorable shops, antiques, cafes, restaurants, and beautiful, old homes to drool over. If you’re looking for a fun day trip, I highly recommend trying Hudson out.
I’m just as excited to share this week’s kitchen makeover with you! This one is such a huge change that I get giddy every time I scroll through the photos.
Elizabeth hired me to do the design for her kitchen and we also painted all the cabinets, installed the tiling, and installed the live edge floating shelves.
Here’s the kitchen before:
We painted the kitchen cabinets Van Deusen Blue by Benjamin Moore, added all new hardware, lightly distressed the cabinets, and sprayed them with a protective clear coat. We also installed all the tiling and the floating live edge shelves that their friend made for them.
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?
Kitchen Cabinets: Van Deusen Blue and Lightly Distressed
Thank you for letting us transform your kitchen, Elizabeth! We loved working with you.
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!
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How are you? I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We celebrated John’s birthday over the weekend! John keeps me dreaming, keeps me on my toes while also making me feeling safe and loved. He works every day (except Sunday because he’s big on rhythms of rest) to keep FunCycled projects on time and running smoothly, to keep up on our #repurposedideahouse, and he still somehow makes time to help others.
For this week’s furniture makeover, I’m sharing a mid century modern dresser that we recently redid and added to our shop.
Here’s the dresser before:
We repaired and then painted the box with Benjamin Moore’s color Simply White. Then we sanded and refinished all the drawer fronts. We used Varathane stain and the colors are Antique White, Classic Grey, and Early American.
This dresser is available now to purchase! Head to our Shop Page to check them out!
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How was your weekend? In upstate NY, most people already know that we usually get one decent sized snow storm in March before the snow goes away for the winter. We had another storm here on Saturday and I’m hoping it’s the last one for the year! Here’s hoping, right?!?
For this week’s makeover, I thought it would be fun to share a green makeover in honor of St. Patty’s Day! A kitchen makeover that’s green? That’s right!
This kitchen makeover is near and dear to my heart because it was for Katie and Dan. They started shopping at FunCycled and having us redo their furniture years ago. Since then, they’ve become dear friends!
My whole family also adores their dog, Walter. Walter wanted to be in every single kitchen picture. Hahahaha
Their kitchen wasn’t bad before, but Katie loves color and wanted a pop and fun design in the kitchen. In addition to having the cabinets painted, they also had a Quartz counter and backsplash installed, we installed a new hood vent, shiplap on the back of the peninsula, and all new hardware.
Here’s the kitchen before:
We painted the kitchen cabinets Tarrytown Green by Benjamin Moore 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?
A big thank you to Katie and Dan for hiring us for this project in your new house. The house is coming together and I’m so proud of you both for working through updating an old home. Little by Little 💕
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!
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If you’ve followed my blog for long, you probably already know that I go on an annual trip to Waco, TX to visit Magnolia Market and enjoy all the Chip and Jo Jo makeovers that I can find!
Last week, I went again to check things out, but this time I met up with a group of friends on the trip. We started by staying at the Gathering Oaks Retreat which is a PERFECT spot if you’re going by yourself and you want to stay in a tiny house all the way up to renting the whole place out for your company retreat or wedding. Usually, I stay in the tiny house, but this time I stayed in the 2 bedroom cottage and brought my dear friend Nicolle from Bluebird Home Decor. Gathering Oaks invited me to stay with them and asked that I just share about the experience with all of you. I couldn’t have asked for a better experience! The rooms were stunning, the newly remodeled bathroom was jaw dropping, and the outdoor area was a blast! I invited a group of girlfriends over for drinks and cheese. We sat outside and had the option of playing outdoor games like corn hole, ping pong, golf, or enjoy the pool/hot tub. Check out all out in pictures:
One of my favorite parts of staying at Gathering Oaks is the fact that it’s across the street from where Chip and Joanna live, so you can take a quick walk past their house. This is us… being creepy stalkers. Taking a selfie with their house behind us. Don’t worry, we didn’t try to get close. Even if I wanted to! Haha!!
If you want to book a room for a group of girlfriends, I highly recommend the Two Bedroom Cottage.
Ok, now that we’ve got the stay taken care of, let’s talk about what to do and where to go.
If you like to shop and linger, I’d say plan to spend the whole day at Magnolia. Magnolia Press (their coffee shop), opens the earliest at 7am. So I’d say be there around 8am to enjoy a cup of coffee and maybe a chocolate croissant then get in line at the Silo Baking Company because it’s the place that always seems like it has a line when I visit.
Up next, head to the main Magnolia Market area which is beautiful!
Take selfies in the plethora of selfie worthy spots. Say cheese!!
Then head to the cute shops along the back side of the Magnolia Marketplace.
Remember, the market doesn’t stay open really late, so plan to go out to a nice dinner after a day of shopping, or do what we did – go back and have a ladies night at the Gathering Oaks. It was so much fun!
For the 2nd day of your trip, start the day with breakfast at Magnolia Table.
If you didn’t get time to on the first day, head to the Magnolia Home and check out all the furniture and rugs. I love this spot! And look at this mirror installation! It is amazing : )
Up next, head to the Little Shop on Bosque. It’s where everything started. Jo’s first storefront. Now, they sell discounted scratch and dent items there.
There are countless other things to do in Waco! I like to recommend 2 full days in town. That would probably feel like enough!
We also drove around to find Chip and Jo’s new purchase at that time. A Castle! Pop 3300 Austin Avenue, Waco, TX into your GPS to drive by and see it. You can also read my Magnolia Castle Tour post here, which is updated information from when this post was originally written.
You can now take a tour of the Castle which I recommend. You can also check out this article which features some pictures of the Castle before its renovation–pretty interesting, right?!
Hope this inspires you to take a trip with your friends! Make some memories. Be creatively inspired!
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How are you? I hope all of you who are from upstate NY with kids enjoyed the winter break last week! For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a project that I loved being a part of recently.
My brother, Jesse, asked for help redesigning his master bathroom. I love helping family with design projects and if you’ve followed our story for long, you know that Jesse has been a huge help to me throughout the years with FunCycled. So any chance I can get to help him, I’m excited to do so!
Here’s his bathroom before:
Pink Bathroom Before
Jesse made a list of the products that we selected so I could easily share it with you! Here they are (if the word is teal, it’s a link to click and order the product yourself):
Flooring: Dark gray / charcoal diagonal — Fordham Nero 12×24 Black Matte Porcelain Floor and Wall Tile – 70sq.ft.
Now that you have all the details, are you ready for the after photos?
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.
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How are you? I hope your week is going well! For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a recent secretary desk makeover that we just finished and added to our store. You can purchase it anytime on our shop page!
Here it is before:
Even though I don’t often do this with secretaries desks, for this one, I wanted to keep some of the original wood and paint the rest. So we left the desk area and bookshelf area with the wood stain and painted the rest with Behr’s Winter Way. Then we lightly distressed it and painted the original hardware black. If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.
Ready for the afters?
This desk is available now to purchase! Head to our Shop Page to check them out!
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How was your weekend? I hope all went well and that you’re ready for some warmer weather this week! I know I am! I’m really excited to share this week’s makeover with you. Mandy reached out to us to see if we could help her with a project to create a bar out of her grandmothers old organ. She has a lot of special memories around this organ, but she didn’t need it to be an organ anymore. So we went over quite a few ideas for utilizing it as wine storage and a bar area. It’s going to be headed to Virgina soon to be enjoyed for years to come!
Here’s the organ before:
She needed a counter top area to serve up the drinks so we removed both levels of keys and created one, larger counter top area. We talked about doing wine storage on top, but Mandy didn’t want it to be too tall. So we gutted the base of organ and installed an X for wine bottles, wine glass hangers, and a shelf from one of the rows of keys. We also removed the music holder for a flat, top surface for more counter space. The legs needed side support so we build that into it as well.
We painted the outside Chelsea Gray by Benjamin Moore lightly distressed it. If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. We also removed the top of the hutch to give it a more updated look.
Check out the afters!
Organ Recycled into a Wine BarMade a shelf out of the old keys.Built in an X for wine bottle storage.Got rid of the buttons, but kept the logos and framed them out.Wood counter top sealed with a food safe tung oil.Added supports for the front legs and lightly distressed the piece.
This project was a custom order so it isn’t available purchase! Head to our Shop Page to check out the other items available though!
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How are you all? I hope you had a nice weekend! It’s been a little rough over here because I’m going on 2 weeks with kidney stones. The pain is no joke! This weekend was also our 10th anniversary celebration at FunCycled. Thank you for all who came out to celebrate with us! It was so nice seeing everyone and reflect on all the blessings over the last 10 years.
My brother, Jesse, snapped a few photos for me during the celebration so I thought I share some of those with you.
Here’s to 10 years! One of my favorite things about FunCycled is the friends we’ve made over the years. Friends like Katie and Dan who went from customers to dear friends!Thankful for Monica’s support every step of the way. Even when she couldn’t be at the event she sent flowers. My brother and his family have helped me so much throughout the years. He created our website, gave me my first professional camera, and offered so much helpful/advice along the way.
For this week’s makeover, I’m excited to share this kitchen makeover. Mostly because it’s different from the typical kitchen makeovers we do because Tim and Sumer went with Black paint for the cabinets.
Here’s the kitchen before:
We painted the kitchen cabinets Black by Benjamin Moore and sprayed them with a protective clear coat. We also installed shiplap on the back of the island, added new hardware, and took the scalloping above the kitchen sink down and wrapped the crown moulding on either side of those upper cabinets.
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!
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How’s your week going so far? If you read my blog post last week about the recap of our year, you’ve already seen a quick glimpse of this makeover, but I wanted to share more details of it with you, too.
When we bought our house, it was divided into a 2 family, but we wanted to convert it back to a one family. The first floor of our house has a half bath that we redid already. It’s part of the living room area which makes for an awkward night with friends. If you have to pee we are all sitting and chatting in the same area so we’re all going to know. Hahha It’s also in the middle of the house so anytime we have friends over and the kids were playing or anytime John came in with dirty boots… you betcha, it would track all through the house. A cleaning nightmare! :)
So we decided to take this small kitchen and turn it into a half bath:
It was a rough space… holes in the ceiling and a floor pealing up. We needed to keep the front half of the room where the fridge and stove are for a closet and mess sink for rinsing paint. So, it made the room even smaller, but it does what we need it to do. It’s right off our back door/mud room and is a cute space for staff and friends to use the bathroom.
One thing I love to do in small bathrooms is add a surprise element. It’s fun because when a room is small we can add something that is a little more expensive and not break the bank. It could be a unique, expensive tile, a one of a kind vanity, or beautiful lights. In this case, I went with a bold, beautiful wallpaper. I couldn’t love it more! The colors were perfect. My favorite colors all in one wallpaper. Teal, coral, mustard, black, and white. On top of that, the large floral design in a small room feels like just the right amount of sophistication.
We painted the walls with Valspar’s Lincoln Cottage Black. One of my favorite black colors for the wall. We also did board and batten on the bottom half of the wall.
To build the vanity, because it’s such a tiny space, we decided to order this sink top and build the vanity. I love when John builds a vanity instead of buying one because it can be just the right size and we can hide the plumbing. So in this case, you can’t tell from photos, but the vanity on the bottom has a fake back that hides the plumbing.
I also bought this beautiful door from a barn sale and frosted the glass so some light comes in, but still has privacy. To use normal door on a slider track, it has to be a large door so it’s tall enough to cover the opening. Barn door sliders bring the height of the door up a bit.
So here’s a quick items list just in case you want to order any of it for your own home.
How do you like it?? I don’t think I could love it more!!
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