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Repainting an Christy’s Old Painted Dresser

Hi Friends! 

How are you? Today, I want to talk to you about furniture. Not politic or COVID or anything else… just pretty furniture. This week’s furniture makeover was for my dear friend Christy. Right at the beginning of COVID, Christy reached out in the kindest way (as always) to see how she could send a project our way to keep money coming in. That meant more than she even knows and helped our family! 

She had painted this dresser for her son when he was a little boy and now she wanted to use it in a different way in her house. 

Here it is before: 

We repainted it Benjamin Moore’s Simply White and sprayed it all with protective clear coat.

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

We also changed it from pull to knobs and, to me, it doesn’t even look like the same dresser. 

What do you think?


This was done as a custom order, but you can check out new pieces on our For Sale page:

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.

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FunCycles Stays Airbnb Geometric Bedroom Design

Hi Friends,

I’m so excited to share the full sized bedroom remodel that we did for our Urban Industrial Airbnb! Let’s take a look at the room before we started working on it!

I wanted the headboard wall to be the first thing to catch your eye when you walked into the room. I also knew I wanted everything about this room to be geometric and fun. I started by designing the furniture with a triangle pattern.

Then I moved to the headboard wall design. I knew I wanted a shelf to add decor so I used this repurposed barn board that we already had. I also added triangle decals to the bottom area and painted above the board with Benjamin Moore’s color Black.

To save space and add more texture to this wall, we attached antique crates directly to the wall to create end stands.

We also added pendent lights to this wall and made our own Sleep Sign and Troy Sign. If you’d like either sign, we can custom make one for you. Use our Contact Us form to order and pick up locally.

We also used mustard as our pop of color in this space with throw pillows and throw blankets.

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. 

Thanks for being the best funcycler’s around! 

Sarah Trop

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Black Empire Dresser Makeover

Hi Friends!

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!

Ready for the afters?

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

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

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.

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Gentleman’s Gray Desk – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

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!

Ready for the afters?

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

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

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.

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Gray Secretary Desk For Sale – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

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!

Ready for the afters?

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

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.

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Two Tone Teal Buffet Makeover – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends,

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!

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

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.

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French Provincial Dresser Set – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

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.

Here are the completed pieces:

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

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.

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White Basset Dresser Set for Sale

Hi Friends!

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.

Here’s the after’s for you!

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

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.

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FunCycled Stays Airbnb Master Bedroom Makeover

Hi Friends!

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. 

Thanks for being the best funcycler’s around! 

Sarah Trop

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Reusing your hutch as a buffet! – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

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!

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

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.