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Airbnb Set Up and Design Services

Welcome friends!

As you may already know, we purchased a building in Troy in the middle of the pandemic and redid it completely to create a large airbnb space. Within the 1st year, we more than doubled any other airbnb income in Troy.

We had a game plan, marketing strategy, and one of a kind design. We believe that is the recipe for success in the Airbnb industry.

What you may not know is that we offer interior design and set up strategies for clients who are looking to start an airbnb or already purchased a building and want one of a kind design to set them apart from other listings.

Check out some of our Airbnb designs:

Before you decide if you should open an airbnb, we recommend asking these questions.

  1. What is the draw that would bring a lot of people to the area? Think venues, colleges, destinations.
  2. Am I ok with being on call all of the time? If not, am I ok with paying a property manager up to 35% of the income I make?
  3. Do you like meeting new people? Do you like the idea of people you don’t know in your space (if it’s located in your house)?
  4. How many other airbnb’s are there in the area? If the market is saturated, is your design, location or amenities unique enough to have people choose your airbnb?

Once you work through those answers, if you’d like to move ahead, I highly recommend hiring someone to do the interior design work (unless you have a really good eye for design). The design really does set you apart from other airbnb’s. I’ll pick a uniquely designed airbnb over others despite the price any time.

If design isn’t your thing, hire us! We can help you no matter where you’re located in the US. We can give you tips to get reimbursed easier when there is a problem, tips to make the experience one of a kind for your guest, and show you products we’ve used and loved over the years… and that’s in addition to helping you with design!

FunCycled Airbnb Design Services

Contact Us today to get the help we know you’ll need!

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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Kitchen Table Update – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How was your weekend? We had a great weekend at home and I was able to check off the list another one of my 40 new experiences before I turn 40! I went to a ring making class at Sawtooth Jewlers and made my own ring with my friends Heather and Aubrey! It was so much fun!! If you’re looking for something different to try with a friend, I recommend this!

For this week’s Tuesday’s Treasures, I wanted to share a kitchen table makeover that we recently did for a client who had us redo her kitchen. While I was there she said, once we do this kitchen, the table isn’t going to look right. How about we redo that, too!! Perfect plan to me!

Here’s the table before:

When a table set is sturdy and just the right size, that’s the time I recommend giving it an update instead of replacing it. So we sanded the top and stained it with Classic Gray, primed and painted the chairs and legs Benjamin Moore’s color Black. We also added 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 set was done as a custom order so it’s not for sale, but I still wanted to share the transformation. Be sure to visit our SHOP page to see what pieces we do have available for purchase. Or contact us to get a quote to let us redo your furniture for you! 

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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Shaker Trim Upgrade to Kitchen Cabinets – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How was your holiday weekend? We spent it on our friends small homestead/farm. We try to go once a year to catch up on life. Chrisie and I have been dear friends for over 16 year.

We even got to see the baby pigs before they went to their new homes. So cute!

For this week’s makeover, we painted the kitchen cabinets which I, of course, love! In addition to that, I wanted you to see how much adding shaker trim to the side of the cabinets and the back of the island really elevates the look of the cabinets. It’s a fairly simple to install and makes the kitchen look like high end, custom cabinetry.

Here’s the kitchen before:

Kitchen Before
Kitchen After
Shaker trim on the side of the fridge.
Shaker trim on the side of the base cabinets.

In addition to adding the shaker trim, we also painted the whole kitchen with Benjamin Moore’s Kendall Charcoal and added all new hardware.

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

Look at the fine finish on these cabinets! So beautiful!

What an beautiful transformation!! 

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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Antique Mirrored Dresser Painted White- Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

I hope you had a beautiful weekend! If you didn’t see it already, I’m planing to do 40 new experiences in the that I turn 40, and I’m sharing the adventures along the way! The next one to check off the list; luxury sheets! I asked for luxury sheets for Christmas, and my friend Jo Ann bought them for me!

They are so silky and soft and I love them! You could get a pair here!

For this week’s furniture makeover, check out this adorable mirrored dresser makeover.

Here’s the dresser before:

It definitely could use an update! So we smoothed out any imperfections, primed and painted it Benjamin Moore’s color Simply White. We also 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 set was done as a custom order so it’s not for sale, but I still wanted to share the transformation. Be sure to visit our SHOP page to see what pieces we do have available for purchase. Or contact us to get a quote to let us redo your furniture for you!

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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Dresser Set Makeover – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

Happy 2023!!! This month marks our 11th year in business! I can barely believe it and want to say thank you so much to each of you for sharing our business with your friends, buying our furniture, hiring me to do design work for you, or asking us to paint your kitchen cabinets. Without YOU there is no FunCycled.

This year, I’ll be turning 40 in October! To celebrate, I’m planning to do 40 new experience this year! I’ll share them as I do them to give you some ideas to try yourself if you’d like to join in with me. If you have a unique experience you’ve done, please share it in the comments to give me more ideas.

This week, I checked 2 off the list! I colored my hair an unnatural hair color for the first time ever. I went with rose gold which is hard to tell from photos, but here it is:

Rose Gold Hair #40before40fun

I also got a second ear piercing! Harmony has been wanting one so I thought this could be another new experience that she could do with me.

2nd Earring #40before40fun

If you’re on social media and would like to follow along as I do these throughout the year, follow hashtag #40before40fun to see them in your feed!

For this week’s furniture makeover, I wanted to share a dresser set that we updated with paint!

Here are the dressers before:

We kept most of this piece as is; just painted it with Benjamin Moore’s Steam AF-15, glazed it, 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 set was done as a custom order so it’s not for sale, but I still wanted to share the transformation. 

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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Kitchen Repurposed for the Holidays

Hi Friends!

We pray you had a wonderful Christmas last weekend! We hosted Christmas and it was a day filled with family, reading through Luke 2; celebrating our Savior’s birth, singing Christmas carols around the piano, laughing until it hurts, and eating delicious food!

Check out how John stole the show with his Christmas shirt at church this year… lol

This week, I’m sharing a kitchen transformation that we finished just in time for the holidays.

Here’s the kitchen before:

This client started by hiring me to do the design of the kitchen. We met for an hour and selected colors, talked through counter and tile options, and selected new hardware.

That was just the planning stage in early 2022. Then she carefully budgeted and planned out the next steps. She had the new counter installed and then booked us to paint and tile in November so it could be done before the holidays.

We painted the kitchen cabinets Benjamin Moore’s Simply White. We also added new hardware, and sprayed everything with a protective clear coat. Then we removed the old tile and added new tile. The accent tile above the stove is one of my favorite parts about the tile design.

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?

What an beautiful transformation!! 

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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Vintage Thermos Winter Mantle Design – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

Merry Christmas from our 1802 home to yours! This year, I thought it would be nice to show you how I decorated our mantle for the winter season! John loves decorating for Christmas, but I thought I wasn’t much of a seasonal decorator. Although without having a storefront to decorate this year, I enjoyed decorating our home for Christmas more than any other year. It was exciting to find new items to decorate with and make the house feel fresh again! I may have just used all my design energy on the storefront over the last 8 years so it was nice to have that energy for our home this year!

John and I found vintage thermoses from one vendor at a holiday craft show. I was so excited and told John I wanted them. He asked, “How many?” I said… “All of them!” He gave me the look that said, you’re crazy and I have no idea how this will look good, but I trust you! I wanted to do all vintage thermoses on the mantel mixed with pine trees and lights. That way, it’s not just a Christmas mantel, it can last all winter and look great!

So, that’s just what we did! We bought all the vintage thermoses that the vendor had and started adding them to our mantel!

Vintage Thermos Mantel

I loved it, but it needed something more… colored lights. I usually ONLY like white lights, but with this vintage feel, the colored lights felt right.

Isn’t that better?

What else could make a thermos mantel any cuter? Gnomes I say!!!

Look at these cuties that I found in a shop in Saratoga Springs during their Victorian Walk.

The mini coffee cups in their hands!!! Stop it! I just can’t take all that cuteness!

So let’s recap the beauty of this design… It’s repurposed vintage items mixes with new locally sourced items, and topped with LED colored lights and pine tree art. What do you think? Will you decorate your mantel with vintage thermoses next Christmas?

Oh, and one other design tip. If you’re light on decor or just want to bring the beautiful outside indoors, try cutting pieces of pine trees and adding them to your favorite pitchers. I did that here:

Isn’t it so cute!

Now let’s take a look at the mantel from afar:

Could your house use some new decor or design? We’d love to help!! We can help pick out colors, finishes, and products that will give your house a refresh in the new year.

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,

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Coffee Table and End Stand Repurposed – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

I hope you had a nice weekend! It was a rough one here with a surprise root canal on Friday morning and the flu the next day. The kids and I are hacking our days away on the couch. Good thing I can type and not talk to share this week’s makeover with you.

It’s been a bit since I’ve shared a custom order with you. This coffee table and end stand set was already owned by one of our clients. Here’s what they looked like before:

We painted this set with Benjamin Moore 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:

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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Kitchen Design and Cabinet Painting Project

Hi Friends!

How was your weekend? We had a festive weekend with the Saratoga Victorian Walk and the Troy Victorian Stroll! It was so much fun!

I’m really excited to share this week’s kitchen makeover with you! One thing that sets us apart from other kitchen cabinet painting companies is that we also do interior design. So when we come to your house to paint cabinets, we’re not just thinking about what colors would work for your space, we can also make design recommendation to completely update the kitchen. With this project, Amy started by hiring me to do a design consult to help them pick flooring, counters, hardware, paint color, etc. After all of those details were selected, we did the kitchen cabinet painting for them and added new hardware. They had a contractor who did the rest of the changes to the kitchen.

Here’s the kitchen before:

Kitchen Before
Kitchen Before
Kitchen Before
Kitchen Before

We painted the kitchen main cabinets and peninsula Benjamin Moore’s Simply White. We also added new hardware, and sprayed everything 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?

Kitchen After

What an beautiful transformation!! 

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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My Favorite Sage Green Kitchen Cabinet Color

Hi Friends,

How are you? I hope you’re back into the routine of normal schedules after a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and that your hearts are full from the practice of giving thanks. It’s such a good discipline in the valleys or on the mountaintops. We all have something to be grateful for!

For this week’s makeover, I’m excited to share a kitchen makeover where I did the design and then we painted the kitchen cabinets. I feel like we most often paint kitchens white, but in this case the kitchen went from white to green! If you’ve ever tried to pick a medium sage green, you can know how tricky that process can be. We went back and for on this kitchen, but landed on Benjamin Moore’s cedar mountain 706. I couldn’t love it more!! It’s hard to photograph this green because it looks so different based on the lighting, but click the link above to see the color on Benjamin Moore’s site.

Here’s the kitchen before:

Kitchen Before
Kitchen Before
Kitchen Before

We painted the kitchen main cabinets and peninsula Benjamin Moore’s cedar mountain 706. We also added new hardware, removed the wine fridge in the island and made a shelf for a microwave to free up more counter space, and sprayed everything with a protective clear coat. 

What an beautiful transformation!! 

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 After
Kitchen After
Kitchen After
Kitchen After
Kitchen After
Kitchen After
Kitchen After

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 ;)