How’s your week going? I just wanted to share a quick before and after of a really old dresser that we bought a month or so ago. Here’s a look at it before we brought it back to life:
We painted it Benjamin Moore’s Black, lightly distressed it, sanded and stained the top, and then sprayed it all with protective clear coat. We also added leather pulls. Available now in store or online!
This desk is available to purchase on our website or in our store now, but you can check out more new pieces on our For Sale page:
Gray Secretary Desk
Teal and Wood Buffet
FunCycled Stays Airbnb
Mid Century Dresser Set
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Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
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How are you? We’ve been enjoying the beautiful fall weather in upstate NY. Including a walk through Olana Historic Site.
For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share this beautiful desk that we recently redid. We purchased it at a barn sale that we go to every year in Columbia County. All the money they raise goes to an orphanage. It’s my favorite place to buy old furniture.
Here’s the desk before:
We painted it Benjamin Moore’s Gentleman’s Gray, lightly distressed it, and then sprayed it all with protective clear coat. Available now in store or online!
This desk was done as a custom order so it isn’t available to purchase on our website or in our store now, but you can check out more new pieces on our For Sale page:
Gray Secretary Desk
Black Empire Dresser
Teal and Wood Buffet
Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Interior Design
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Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
If you like what you see, please like FunCycled’s Facebook page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We also offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and furniture. We can deliver for customers in upstate NY and also help you ship throughout the US. Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our online shop.
How was your weekend? October is my favorite month for so many reasons. 💗💗 For the hills that exploded with “all the colors of the rainbow” as my son says. For the calm before the storm of the holidays. For the camp fires on cold nights. For apple picking and hayrides. For sweet family time and the reminder of the changing seasons – how quickly time passes. For my favorite dessert – apple crisp. For the dates sprinkled through the month with friends for my birthday. Excited today for a new month and all the joy it brings. 👩🏼💻 + 🍂 = 💗
We enjoyed a hike in Thatcher Park and pumpkin picking this weekend. I loved every minute of it!!
For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a secretary desk that we just finished and will be down at our store this week for you to purchase. Or you can purchase it online!
Here’s the desk before:
We painted it Benjamin Moore’s Amber Slate, lightly distressed it, and then sprayed it all with protective clear coat. Pictures don’t even do it justice. We also added new white rose knobs. Available now in store or online!
This desk is available to purchase on our website or in our store now, but you can check out more new pieces on our For Sale page:
Black Empire Dresser
Teal and Wood Buffet
Custom Built Headboards
Long White Dresser
Tall White Dresser
Mid Century Dresser
Please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture.
Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
If you like what you see, please like FunCycled’s Facebook page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We also offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and furniture. We can deliver for customers in upstate NY and also help you ship throughout the US. Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our online shop.
If you’re a furniture nerd like I am and love to watch the furniture trends online, one you’ve probably seen lately is that people are leaving the furniture legs stained and painting the boxes. I love that look and I’ve been waiting for just the right piece to do that with. This buffet had the legs for it, but it also had beautiful wood graining on the drawer and door fronts. So I decided this would be a perfect piece to combine some wood and some paint.
Here it is before:
To do that, you have to take the doors off, the drawers out, and tape off the legs!
We freshened the wood up with stain and painted the box with Benjamin Moore’s Gentleman’s Gray, glazed it, and then sprayed it all with protective clear coat. Pictures don’t even do it justice. Available now in store or online!
This buffet is available to purchase on our website or in our store now, but you can check out more new pieces on our For Sale page:
Black Empire Dresser
FunCycled Stays Airbnb
Custom Built Headboards
Long White Dresser
Mid Century Dresser
Gray Dresser
Please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture.
Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
If you like what you see, please like FunCycled’s Facebook page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We also offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and furniture. We can deliver for customers in upstate NY and also help you ship throughout the US. Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our online shop.
How was your weekend? We had a great time enjoying our church being back open and an afternoon of my mom teaching all the kids how to make her applesauce. These fall days are some of my favorite days. With crisp nights and sunny days, warm apple apple crisp and pumpkin spice latte. Once the leaves start changing, I think upstate NY is one of the most beautiful places in the country.
We’ve also been adjusting to home schooling. I would say week 1 went much better than the first 3 days. I love having the kids home and I love field trips even more! We went to the Saratoga Battlefield last week and had such a wonderful time. We also celebrated Harmony’s birthday this week. Her gift was a kitten – meet Phoebe!
For this week’s makeover, I wanted to show you this bedroom set that came together pretty quickly for Courtney who reached out to me on Facebook. She had been looking for dressers and a bed that have detailing or French provincial designs. She hadn’t had any luck finding what she wanted so we set up a time to talk and I showed her what we could find to purchase for the bed. I went shopping at an annual barn sale and found just what she was looking for with the dresser. Here’s all the pieces before:
We took all three pieces and painted them Simply White by Benjamin Moore and then did a slightly more than light distressing and added new hardware. We also sprayed them with a protective clear coat.
This set was done as a custom order so it isn’t available to purchase on our website or in our store now, but you can check out more new pieces on our For Sale page:
Custom Built Headboards
Mid Century Dresser Set
Gray Buffet
French Provincial White Hutch
Navy Hutch
Please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture.
Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
If you like what you see, please like FunCycled’s Facebook page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We also offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and furniture. We can deliver for customers in upstate NY and also help you ship throughout the US. Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our online shop.
How was your weekend? I hope all went well, and that you were able to enjoy what felt like the first fall weekend in upstate NY. Autumn is my favorite with all the seasons best. Pumpkin spice lattes, apple picking, crisp nights and camp fires, fall decor, and hayrides. 💕
For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a dresser set that we just added to our store.
Here are the dressers before:
We painted both dressers with Benjamin Moore’s Simply White. Then we spray painted the hardware gold and also sprayed the whole piece with a protective clear coat.
This dresser set is available to purchase on our website or in our store now, but you can also check out even more new pieces on our For Sale page:
Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Mid Century Dresser
White Buffet
Gray Buffet
White French Provincial Dresser
Please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture.
Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
If you like what you see, please like FunCycled’s Facebook page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We also offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and furniture. We can deliver for customers in upstate NY and also help you ship throughout the US. Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our online shop.
Who doesn’t love a beautiful bedroom when you go somewhere to escape normal life for a bit! Today, I’m sharing the master bedroom makeover in the airbnb. If you’re looking for a place get away and relax; book your stay here!
This is the master bedroom when we went to look at the building to purchase it.
It doesn’t look it, but the walls were a light gray and my least favorite part of the room was the huge pine baseboard! It was 12″ tall!
So we ripped that out and repurposed it to be shelving in the kitchen.
We painted the headboard wall Newburg Green by Benjamin Moore in a Matte finish and the rest of the walls Simply White.
We custom built the headboard with lights and end stands on it to save floor space and to be the focal point of the room.
We also repurposed an antique dresser for this room and built an adorable ladder. At the footboard, we took an old piece of reclaimed lumber and added hairpin legs to give it a rustic, modern feel.
Queen Master Bedroom
We also added a little electric fireplace and a tiny office off the master bedroom.
It would mean so much if you would share this link with any friend you think might be interested. You can book your stay on Airbnb’s website today!
We loved being able to do all the design for this space. We focused on using as much repurposed items we could for accents and furniture throughout the space! Making it green, beautiful, and one of a kind for your home away from home stay.
If you’d like me to help you with design in your home (can be done virtually to help anyone in the US) or if you see anything in the photos you’d like in your home locally, let me know. We made most of the signs ourselves and build many of the furniture items throughout the space.
How was your weekend? I hope all is going well! This week, I wanted to share a simple way to update an older hutch. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good hutch makeover, but sometimes a hutch can also be completely transformed by keeping just the bottom of the hutch and turning it into a buffet. It really modernizes the piece and also gives you room above it for some exposed shelves or decor.
Here’s a hutch that we recently redid in that way:
We painted the buffet/dresser with Benjamin Moore’s Simply White. Then we lightly distressed it, sprayed it with a protective clear coat, and added new hardware.
Doesn’t it look like a complete different piece?
Adding glass knobs made it look so much more farmhouse, chic!
This buffet/dresser is available to purchase on our website or in our store now, but you can also check out even more new pieces on our For Sale page:
Mid Century Dresser
Gray Dresser
Gray Buffet
Gray and White Tall Dresser
Navy Hutch
Kitchen Cabinet Painting
Please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture.
Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
If you like what you see, please like FunCycled’s Facebook page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We also offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and furniture. We can deliver for customers in upstate NY and also help you ship throughout the US. Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our online shop.
How’s your week going? I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I wanted to share the kitchen remodel at our #funcycledstays airbnb. Here’s what we started with – basically an empty room that needed a lot of love.
The first thing we did was rip up the subfloor to find hardwood floors underneath. I forgot to take a picture of the kitchen with the subfloors. Here’s where you can see what we ripped up.
Finding the wood floors was such a nice surprise! It gave the room a lot of character and we were able to repurpose something old instead of buying something new.
A nice part about the kitchen was that it had all the plumbing and electrical in place so we didn’t have to do anything like that, but it had nothing else.
We had some cabinets from the first floor of the new building and also took cabinets that were going to be trashed from a kitchen job that we redid. So we took them and painted them Newburgh Green by Benjamin Moore. Colorize in Clifton Park offered to let us try their new paint product called Gemini EVO. It’s a water based lacquer for kitchen cabinet painting. I’ve heard great things about it, but wanted to wait for a project for ourselves before we tested it out. I wanted to see how it sprayed and check the durability before I offered it to our clients. We use an air sprayer for the doors and drawers and brush the boxes. Both applications of this product worked really well. It went through the sprayer without thinning it out and it rolled onto the cabinets without showing brush marks. We loved using it and will now be offering this option for our clients for an upcharge (because it costs about double what normal cabinet paint does). We also waited and did a scratch test and it adhered really well to the cabinets. Thanks to Colorize for keeping us up to date on all the new products and for providing stellar customer service.
We installed IKEA faux concrete counters. The light above the island wasn’t in a good spot so instead of moving all the electric, we built a box and installed two island lights from Ikea. Then we installed subway tile and black grout.
We removed the baseboard that was 10″ tall in the master bedroom. Why would anyone install that big of a baseboard?
Then we repurposed the wood from the baseboard to create exposed shelves in the kitchen.
We took an old white dishwasher and spray painted it black! It still worked great, so, why not? Thanks for the dishwasher, Christine!
The island was a buffet from FunCycled where we extended the top to make it a place for people to sit an eat. We purchased the bar stools on Facebook marketplace.
Installing barn board to the soffits gave it visual interest and charm.
We are so happy with how this little space took shape into a one of a kind place for people to stay, enjoy cooking together, and make family memories for years to come!
It would mean so much if you would share this link with any friend you think might be interested. You can book your stay on Airbnb’s website today!
We loved being able to do all the design for this space. We focused on using as much repurposed items we could for accents and furniture throughout the space! Making it green, beautiful, and one of a kind for your home away from home stay.
If you’d like me to help you with design in your home (can be done virtually to help anyone in the US) or if you see anything in the photos you’d like in your home locally, let me know. We made most of the signs ourselves and build many of the furniture items throughout the space.
How are you? I hope you’re doing well! We had a beautiful weekend! Took whole Saturday off and enjoyed kayaking and having dinner out! It was such a fun time!
I wanted to share a buffet makeover that we just finished and added to our shop online and in our store.
Here’s the buffet before:
We sanded and primed, then painted it with Benjamin Moore’s Advanced paint. Color: Kendal Charcoal. Then we lightly distressed it and sprayed it with a protective clear coat. The hardware is all new. I could not love this one more! If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.
This is available to purchase on our website, but you can check out new pieces on our For Sale page:
French Provincial White Hutch
Navy Hutch
French Provincial Teal Buffet
Please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture.
Happy FunCycling Friends, Sarah ;)
If you like what you see, please like FunCycled’s Facebook page to keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We also offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and furniture. We can deliver for customers in upstate NY and also help you ship throughout the US. Send us a note with what you would like using our contact page. Or buy something that we’ve already designed from our online shop.
