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Brewster Gray Bathroom Vanity Makeover

Hi Friends!

How’s your week going? I hope you’re enjoying all the holiday festivities!

This weekend, my girl had her first ever figure skating performance and did such a great job. She loved every minute and I loved every minute, too. The smile that never left her face was priceless. Oh my heart, my heart! 💕

Today I wanted to show you a quick bathroom makeover we did for one of our interior design clients. 

Here’s the bathroom before: 

Our client’s didn’t want to have to remove the vanity but we wanted to give the space a fresh, new look. We painted the vanity Brewster Gray by Benjamin Moore. Then John built a custom mirror for above the vanity and they installed a new light. 

Brewster Gray Bathroom Vanity 
Painted Brewster Gray Vanity
Custom Built Mirror 

There will be more before and afters to share from this beautiful home soon! For now, if you have a home you’d like transformed, please let us know! 

You can use our Contact Us form to reach out to us or check out other projects on our Interior Design page or Furniture For Sale page. 

Also, check out our store for new furniture available this week:

  • Kitchen Cabinet Painting
  • Antique Piano Desk
  • Green Campaign Dresser
  • Gray Mid Century Dresser
  • Black Dresser
  • Gray Hutch

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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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Interior Design and Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Delmar, NY

Hi Friends! 

How are you? I hope all is going well and that you had a great weekend! We had a busy first full week with remodeling the new house. So thankful for a reprieve from the work with a late Friendsgiving and an ugly Christmas Sweater party this weekend. 

We also had our first ever holiday vendor show and open house yesterday at our Evergreen Lane home. Hundreds of you showed up and we had the BEST night. Thank you so much to so many of you that came to support and shop local. I can’t adequately express how much it meant to me! 

For this week’s makeover, I’m sharing a before and after that has been coming for a long time! We started with a design consult on this space back in the spring and have been working on multiple projects in Alexa and Matt’s house. From design boards for lighting, to a kitchen design, shiplap walls, a murphy bed, white washed brick, built in corner bench, etc. It’s been so fun working with Alexa. The first day I met her, I came home and told John, “I really hope she wants to work with us. She’s so nice!”. Over time, I’ve learned the value of working with kind souls. 

Let’s look at the before pictures from the day they bought the house: 

Oak Galley Kitchen Before 
Oak Galley Kitchen Before 
Oak Galley Kitchen Before 

Thankfully, we didn’t have to remove the wallpaper. She hired someone else for that! ;) We picked the wall colors and painted the kitchen cabinets. Klassic Stone installed the soapstone, and we installed the new backsplash. I love, love, love this transformation. We painted all the cabinets Stonington Gray Pewter by Benjamin Moore.

Ready for the afters??

Stonington Gray Galley 
Stonington Gray Galley 
Bread Box Removed and White Storage Painted 

There will be more before and afters to share from this beautiful home soon! For now, if you have a home you’d like transformed, please let us know! 

You can use our Contact Us form or 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 were 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!

Also, check out our store for new furniture available this week:

  • Piano Desk
  • Farm House Tables
  • Interior Design
  • Green Campaign Dresser
  • Gray Mid Century Dresser
  • Black Live Wood Dresser

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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Repurposed Reed Organ Desk

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope you’re all doing well! We had a wonderful time seeing so many of you at Troy’s Victorian Stroll last Sunday! It was such a fun day!!

I have so much to tell you about it, but that’s for another post. Let me give you a little teaser… we purchased a new home this week! We will be repurposing it room by room and sharing the story with all of you!

Eleanor was born in this home 95 years ago and has lived here her whole life. Monday, for the first time since 1818, the keys for this home were given to someone outside of the family. They were placed in our hands. We will make this beauty shine again, Eleanor. Room by room. Through sweat and I’m sure some tears, we’ll take this gift and give it our best work. Reviving the old through as much repurposing as possible. Welcome to the #repurposedideahouse by #funcycled 💕💕

I’ll be sharing more rooms and details in the days and years to come, but for this week I wanted to share a makeover of a one of a kind piece we just added to the store.
Here it is before (I actually forgot to get a picture before we took the keys out):
When I saw this piece at a barn sale, I actually thought it might be a piano. It looks so much like antique square grand pianos. Once we brought it to the shop and starting working on it, we realized that it wasn’t a piano. It had no strings inside at all! Thankfully a gentleman was shopping at FunCycled during the stroll this weekend who specialized in piano and organs. He let me know that it’s an antique Reed organ! That makes more sense! It’s not heavy because there is no sound board and it seemed like air was used to create sound, but it didn’t work any more when we got it.
Since then, we altered the top to make a flat surface with a glass top. We painted the main part of the piece with BM’s bm gentleman’s teal, glazed it, and sprayed it with a protective clear coat. We also painted all the cast iron parts of the organ and painted them gold and glazed them as well.

Ready for the afters?

Reed Organ Desk

So pretty, right?? This beauty is up on our For Sale page! If this isn’t quite what you’re looking for, we have more. Check out some of the many new pieces on our For Sale page now:

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. 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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Living Room Design for 1795 Home

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope you all enjoyed Thanksgiving with family or friends! We debated on whether we should decorate for Christmas this year since we close on the new house next week. A good friend spoke truth into my life. Encouraging me to give up some plans and to simplify life so we would still have time to enjoy Christmas as a family. There will always be something to renovate, work to be done, more people wanting help, but one thing that won’t come back is a Christmas with my kids still enjoying the wonder of it all. I’m so thankful for her wisdom and her challenging me to have enough courage to say no to some things that I love so I could say yes to those I love most.

This week, I wanted to share some after pictures of an interior design job that has been slowly happening since the spring. This house had so much character and just needed a little sprucing up with paint colors, rugs, couch covers, furniture placement and decor items. We had a wonderful time working together and I absolutely love how everything came out. Sorry I don’t have any after pictures for you!

Interior Design

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Taking Flat Oak Cabinets and Adding Shaker Trim

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope all is going well! We are in the middle of redoing a huge kitchen up in Brant Lake and I can’t wait to share that with you! We also announced on our Facebook page that we will be hosting a Holiday Vendor Show and House Tour on December 10th. Please join us that night and invite your friends to come along!

For this week’s transformation, I wanted to show you a big transformation of a tiny kitchen. Here’s the kitchen before:

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Metropolitan Gray Hutch Makeover

Hi Friends!

Do you like looking ahead at the color trends for the upcoming year as much as I do?? No? Hmm… we can still be friends! ;) Well, I wanted to introduce you to Benjamin Moor’e color of the year for 2019. It’s Metropolitan AF-690 and its a soft, cool gray that is just so beautiful.

Here’s the hutch before we painted it:

We painted it using Benjamin Moore’s Metropolitan AF-690. If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we lightly glazed it, and sprayed a protective clear coat over the top. We also added all new hardware that really popped with gold accents.

Benjamin Moore Metropolitan AF-690 Hutch

So pretty, right?? This beauty is up on our For Sale page! If this isn’t quite what you’re looking for, we have more. Check out some of the many new pieces on our For Sale page now:

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. 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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Troy, Ny Industrial Chic Design Project

Hi Friends!

How’s your week going? We are knee deep in packing and getting ready to close on the new house. If you haven’t seen it already on our Facebook or Instagram pages, we’re selling our house because we are buying an 1818 fixer upper to redo for years to come! If you’re looking for a house, check out all the photos and information here.

I haven’t shared this online at all until now, but here’s a sneak peak at the 1818 beauty that needs our love and rehab!

Follow us on Instagram or Facebook to watch our progress on the new house as we redo it room by room!

Win this table just in time for Thanksgiving!!

Also, if you haven’t already seen, we’re also giving away one of our custom built tables. If you haven’t entreated for your chance to win, head over to our Facebook page here.

For this week’s makeover, I wanted to show you a living room design job that we’ve been working on for our friends Marty and Elena.

Here’s the living room before:

We did some big updates in this space while the design consult only took 1.5 hours. That’s a small investment of time and money to help select colors and finishes that would work in the space for years to come.

Walls: Gray Owl by Benjamin Moore

New couch, rug, and curtains online!

Then they asked us to custom build an entertainment center! John built from scratch this 9′ long barn door entertainment center. He also built the end stands and shelving for the wall. The arches, ladder, and other home decor came from our store in Troy (272 River Street). We were still waiting on the TV, lamps and greenery but I couldn’t wait to show you the after pictures of this space:

Would you like design help for your home or custom built furniture? Use our Contact Us form to let us know!

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.

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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Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Mechanicville, Ny

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope you are having a great week! We have some really exciting news coming soon so stay tuned to our blog and social media sites. Right now, I’m in the season of busy and I’m sure so many of you can relate to that. I wanted to encourage you all in this season of busy, whether that’s busy because of school, or the holidays, or in ministry, or in work, or whatever else; take the minutes, the hours of the day that aren’t busy and be so smart about them. Stop to take time to asses what you need most in this season or day. Do you need rest? Do you need family time? Do you need to take your kids and encourage them? Do you need a date night with your hubby? Well, schedule in time for that! I know that sounds counterproductive to a busy schedule, but it’s the only way to live a healthy life of balance. Our schedule reflects our priorities in life. Our schedule teaches our children (without words) what’s our priority is in life. Sometimes we have to say no to a good thing to be able to say yes to the best thing. In this season of insanity, I’m learning to schedule the priorities first and then fit the rest in. Time to start my day reading the Bible and prayer. Time with my husband either at home after the kids are in bed or on a date night. Family night once a week. Time to be faithful in church – both to be encouraged and to serve – is a priority. Time to work and do well with it. Time to be a good friend to some (probably not all I want to). Life is just too short to let things that aren’t really that important fill our days. Things like extracurricular activities or social media or TV can zap our time and leave us feeling empty and too busy and like a failure. I fail at this often friends, but I’m in this busy season and am really loving the word margin. Scheduling less. Leaving room to have time for spur of the moment lunches or extra work time that may come up or time to lay in bed with my son to talk to him about what’s on his mind instead of rushing downstairs to work. Let’s work harder at living with more margin, more calm, and purposeful planning in our days friends.

For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a beautiful kitchen makeover in Mechanicville. Here’s the kitchen before:

We painted cabinets Simply White and the cabinets Chelsea Gray by Benjamin Moore. We also installed rough cut shiplap on the back of the island. We painted the shiplap Chelsea Gray first and Simply White second so both colors in the kitchen blend well together and it adds visual interest in the room. Everything else in this kitchen stayed the same so you can really see how JUST paint truly changed this space.

Here are the afters for you!

Would you like your kitchen cabinets painted? 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.

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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Antique Claw and Ball Foot Buffet – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope all is going well! We have some exciting news to share with you… stay tuned to our Facebook and instagram feeds to find out more. Until then, I wanted to share a buffet makeover that I absolutely adore!

Here it is before:

We refinished the top to its original glory and we painted the base a light gray. If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we lightly glazed it, and sprayed a protective clear coat over the top.

Ball and Claw Buffet

So pretty, right?? This beauty is up on our For Sale page! If this isn’t quite what you’re looking for, we have more. Check out some of the many new pieces on our For Sale page now:

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. 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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Kitchen Cabinet Painting in Saratoga, Ny

Hi Friends!

How was your weekend? We did some pumpkin picking and working on projects! It felt great to get some things done and relax a bit!

For this weeks makeover, I want to share a recent kitchen that we redid in Wilton, Ny. Here’s a picture of the kitchen before:

Yvonne and Charlie have had us help with interior design, repurpose furniture and they’ve been waiting for a bit to redo the kitchen. I was really excited that they decided to go ahead with it as it really brightened up the space.

We painted cabinets Simply White by Benjamin Moore. We also installed all new backsplash for this project. I think adding that backsplash made such a huge impact in the space.

Here are the afters for you!
    

Would you like your kitchen cabinets painted? 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.

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.