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Birch Tree Dresser – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope you’re having a great week off with your kids (if this is  your school break). We are visiting friends and getting some valuable (and fun) family time in!

With this week’s furniture makeover, I had my mom in mind the whole time. She loves birch trees, she says that they make her smile!

We started with this dresser:

I don’t know how many of you know this, but I use to paint… like paintings you would hang on the wall. I didn’t paint furniture first. So I find it really relaxing to paint designs on furniture. One of our plans for this year was to have me clear some other things off my schedule so I could get back to the paintbrush again. I find it so inspiring and freeing to create designs I’ve never seen before.

This dresser seemed like the right layout to add birch trees. The top two doors  almost looked like two canvases just waiting for a hand painted finish. I did a drippy finish on the paint job using Benjamin Moore’s Sea Haze and a black enamel. I did everything from watering it down to create the dripping to splattering the black onto the dresser. Whatever I could do to add a lot of texture and visual interest.

Then I did the hand painted birch tree design on the front.

Here’s the whole dresser! We also added new hardware and sprayed it with a protective clear coat:

Blue Birch Tree Dresser

This dresser is available online and in our store now! Check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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Rustic Bohemian Vanity for Sale – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends,

How are you? I hope you had a great weekend! We were busy, busy! We even did a pop up shop with a bunch of other downtown Troy shop owners at Colonie Center this weekend. A big welcome to all of you who are stopping by the blog after meeting us for the first time at that event.

Here we were… all set up!

For this week’s furniture makeover, I wanted to show you how we redid the vanity that was for sale at the show. Now…. this isn’t everyone’s style but it’s a hand painted finish that I have been studying for years now and really love the look of. It’s more like using furniture as a canvas instead of a typical paint job. You may even like the vanity more in its original state:

Let me start by sharing the quotes from my children when they saw me working on it!
“It looks like someone got shot and the blood is dripping down the dresser” -Harmony
“No, it looks like someone blended up rotten food and strawberries and dumped it all over it!” -Josh
“No, no! It looks like strawberry juice and bird poop dumped all over it.” -Harmony

Wow guys! Thanks so much! lol Good thing I really liked it otherwise my feelings might have been hurt!

This finish was actually really tricky… I blended Grand Hotel Flower Red and Mohair Blue paint that we sell in our store. It’s RePurpose Chroma Color paints that don’t require sanding or priming before you paint. I did a drippy, distressed finish. Then sprayed everything with a protective clear coat and added new hardware of course! Ready for the after?
 

THE BEST NEWS?? This vanity is available online and in our store now! Check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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From an Old to a New White Kitchen – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope your week is going well! Everything is going really well around here. I can’t take professional pictures of our most recent basement project until all of the accents are installed, but I wanted to share a sneak peak of some of the work we’ve done so far… we built a custom barn door, built a new wall, and added a kitchenette area.  

Susan and Jerry also let us install a black shiplap wall and black floating shelves. 

For this week’s Tuesday’s Treasures, I want to show you a recent kitchen cabinet job that we finished. Not that the kitchen cabinets were the biggest part of the transformation, but I still thought you’d enjoy the before and after. It’s hard to tell in the before pictures but the white cabinets were more of a creamy white and in need of an update. Here it is before:

We painted the whole kitchen with Benjamine Moore’s Chantilly Lace and sealed it with a satin clear coat. We added all new hardware as well! Klassic Stone in Albany replaced the counters with a gorgeous quartz that looks like marble. Rory and her husband did a great job picking out wall colors and tiling.
Here’s the after!

Would you like your kitchen redone? Use our Contact Us form to let us know! Just email us a picture of your kitchen, a count of how many doors and drawers, and let us know where you are located. Then we can send you  an estimate for redoing them for you! It will up the value of your home at a fractions of the price of buying new cabinets!
Please also check out new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY.

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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Two Cedar Trunk Makeovers

Hi Friends,

How was your week? We started a mid-century modern basement renovation project so that has been a dream come true for me. I love mid century designs and it’s not every day that someone is willing to go with that style. Susan has been a dream client; trusting, patient and willing to let me think outside the box. Can’t wait to show you all, the finished project!

This week’s project is as far from mid-century modern as possible, but it was a sweet Christmas present that we were able to custom make for Charlotte’s kiddos. They had a rough year.

Vera loves birds so we went with a gray trunk with yellow birds! People often ask if I use stencils, but these designs are not with stencils; they are hand painted originals by yours truly.

For a little more masculine vibe, we went with a dark gray trunk with birch trees for Raymond.

These pieces are not available to purchase, but you can check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

 

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Benjamin Moore’s Wind’s Breath Painted Kitchen Cabinets

  1. Hi Friends,

How are you? I hope you’re having a good week so far! I’m excited to show you this week’s makeover. This kitchen project is different because I thought the kitchen was pretty to begin with! The painted cabinets only enhanced the beauty of this kitchen. Here’s the kitchen before:

I loved the old wood in the kitchen so I recommended adding barn board to the back of the island.  Check out the difference:

Our clients also asked if we could take the glass out of the upper cabinet doors and install wood instead. I’m so glad they requested this option, I think it made the kitchen much more updated. We painted the whole kitchen with Benjamine Moore’s Wind’s Breath and sealed it with a satin clear coat. We added all new hardware as well!

Would you like your kitchen redone? Use our Contact Us form to let us know! Just email us a picture of your kitchen, a count of how many doors and drawers, and let us know where you are located. Then we can send you  an estimate for redoing them for you! It will up the value of your home at a fractions of the price of buying new cabinets!
Please also check out new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY.

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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Light Gray Dresser Set

Hi Friends!

How was your week? We had a nice one and the boys even went camping… in a cabin! :) I was happy to stay home in the warmth and hold down the fort until they came back!

For this week’s furniture makeover, I’m excited to show you this dresser set that was redone as a custom order. It’s hard to tell from the picture but there was a lot of surface damage on these pieces. Scratches and dings!  Here they are before:

We painted it using Benjamin Moore’s color Silver Fox. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we distressed it lightly and sprayed it with a protective clear coat. New hardware always helps.

Ready for the after??

These pieces are not available to purchase, but you can check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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Empire Dresser Makeover

Hi Friends!

How was your first week in the 2018? If you’re not from upstate NY you may not know that we’ve had record cold temperatures this week! Cold temperature and paint don’t like either other too much. So we had to crank up the heat to keep our paint building warm enough for the paint to cure correctly. I’m a little scared to see what our heat bill is going to be this month. Also, our 1805 house is pretty drafty! Last year was so mild that I forgot what a typical upstate NY winter was going to feel like in our old/new to us home. We also decluttered from Christmas and I love seeing the house come back together again!

For this week’s furniture makeover, I want to share a gorgeous empire dresser that we think is probably from the late 1800’s/early 1900’s. The dovetailing is hand done and the piece is absolutely beautiful. Here it is before:

It had quite a bit of veneer damage on the box and very top drawer, but the fronts of the rest of the drawers were in good shape! I just didn’t like the color of the drawer fronts – too orange for me. So, we repaired all of the damaged veneer and painted the outside with Benjamin Moore’s color Gentleman’s Gray. Then we sanded down the drawer fronts and stained them with  Minwax’s Dark Walnut.  New hardware was a must and I wanted to give this piece a feminine touch when choosing hardware.

If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we glazed it lightly and sprayed it with a protective clear coat.  Then the new hardware .

Ready for the after??

This dresser is available online and in our store now! Check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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2017 Most Popular Repurposing Projects

Hi Friends!!

The time has come to share our most popular posts in 2017! These are chosen from the Tuesdays Treasures posts of 2017 not all of our posts. This is one of my favorite things to look back on and remember all of the projects in the last year!

1. Kitchen Makeovers

Toping the chart are our Kitchen Projects this year! That seems fitting because we’ve done so many kitchen transformations this year! Check out a few of them on our Kitchen Projects page. Here’s my favorite kitchen makeover this year – my own kitchen!

Before:

After:

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After:

2. Interior Design for a Troy Fireman

I love that this also topped the charts because it shows how much interior design has grown for us this past year. I’ve had the privilege of working in so many of your homes and helping you create a comfortable place that makes you proud to have others visit.

3. Mid Century Hutch

I was a little surprised at this one! This hutch is adorable but it took a long time to sell in our store! Thanks to everyone who loved it!

4. Tips about going to Magnolia Market

Again, love that this toped the charts because it was a highlight of my year. A dream come true really! Getting to go to one of my bucket list spots with my husband was such a blessing.

5. Transitional Interior Design

This was another beautiful interior design project that included custom furniture that we built or repurposed as well as interior design for two rooms!

6. How to Update a Cedar Trunk

Again, this one surprised me just because I kind of forgot about it. I do love a good cedar trunk makeover and apparently you guys do too!

7. Beige China Cabinet Makeover

This is a newer piece and I absolutely love it! The good news? It’s still available to purchase here.

8. Chic Teal and Gray Dining Room

I was so excited to see this one, too, because it included interior design and furniture. The dining room set that we repurposed was so stunning! Head over and check it out!

9. Sea Foam Desk/Dresser

This piece is so unique and really beautiful. I’ve had it for a bit and am surprised it hasn’t sold! I love how it turned out! You can purchase it here.

10. Ugly Dresser Turned Into a Hutch

This was another very special project to me so I was giddy to see that it made the top 10! A really, really, really ugly dresser that we turned into a hutch!

Thank you to all the wonderful people who made this year really special for us! You come out and shop local which makes what we do possible.  We never want to take that for granted!

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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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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New Gray Hutch For Sale

Hi Friends,

How are you? We had an amazing weekend thanks to so many blessings! We were given ticket to see Disney on Ice this weekend and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at the Cohoes music hall! Both were awesome and we cherished the family time! Such special memories! So fun that I forgot to take a good family picture. lol

We love experience gifts for Christmas so one of the kids gifts was going to the Tech Center of Gravity for a class on how to make electronic textiles. We had so much fun and special memories were made!

For this week’s before and after, I wanted to show you a hutch that we just finished! If you’d like to buy it, you can even have it delivered on Friday if you purchase it by tomorrow! Here are the before pictures:

We painted it using Benjamin Moore’s color Silver Fox. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we distressed it lightly and sprayed it with a protective clear coat. New hardware always helps.

Ready for the after??

These pieces are available online and in our store now! Check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

There is a box at the top right of this page to enter your email address to receive notifications by email when I post something new on this blog. Please sign up today!

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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.

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Perspecta by Kent Coffey Dresser Set Makeover

Hi Friends,

How was your week? We had our first snowfall of the season here in upstate NY this week and the kids loved sled riding and even tried out new snowboards! I can’t believe how big they are getting but also love that they are still small enough to be enamored by the first snow fall!

For this week’s furniture makeover, I wanted to share a mid century set that we just finished up! They were actually in need of some veneer repair and sanding, but overall good structurally so I knew they were worth saving. Here they were before:

These were both made by Perspecta by Kent Coffey with dovetail drawers. We painted the boxes with a Black enamel and then stained the drawers with a whitewash, gray wash, and black. After painting, I sanded the drawers to give it a more distressed look!

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

Ready for the after pictures?

These pieces are available online and in our store now! Check out other new furniture for sale on our website here or let us know if you could use some help with decorating. Please use our Contact Us form or stop by our store at 272 River Street, Troy, NY. I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

There is a box at the top right of this page to enter your email address to receive notifications by email when I post something new on this blog. Please sign up today!

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. Last but not least, let us customize a furniture piece for you. We create custom furniture and will deliver for customers in upstate NY and also 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 furniture for sale page.