Hi Friends!!
This is your lucky day!! I’m showing you not just one but TWO makeovers! If that’s not good news enough, both are teal hutch makeovers. I love nothing more than hutch makeovers and then you add my favorite color and it’s a win, win in my book!!
Here’s the first hutch before. It was really, really ugly when we bought it.
I looked at it for a while… then looked at it a little more. It was like the thing was slapping me in the face with it’s ugliness. Just not nice of it to do that to me! Then it came to me… barn board makes everything better so I would put that on the bottom. I didn’t like the trim work on the top either so we pulled that off. We painted the inside the color Silver Fox by Benjamin Moore (a light gray). The painted the outside with the color Tropical Teal by Benjamin Moore. I love distressed teal so of course that came next and then glazed it using Rustoleum’s Antiquing Glaze.
Here are the after pictures:
A little secret about this piece? I wanted to keep it for my dining room, but agreed to put it up for sale for 1 month. If it sold, it wasn’t meant for me. If it didn’t this beauty was mine! Sadly for me, it sold! Good news for you, I have another teal hutch for sale now and it’s coming up next!
An unlikely couple was combined to make this hutch. We took this dresser and put a hutch top on it that went with another hutch we bought. When we bought the other hutch the bottom actually didn’t match it and it was too damaged for repair because it wasn’t solid wood. Out it went and in came this one (I don’t have a before picture of the top unfortunately).
This time we painted the whole thing with Benjamin Moore’s color Tropical Teal and heavily distressed it, then glazed it with Rustoleum’s antiquing glaze. If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.
Are you ready for the after pics?? I had a feeling you might be! ;)
This hutch is for sale right now and you can check out other new furniture for sale on our website here! If you’d like to purchase it, 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 ;)
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We painted it with Glidden’s color fuchsia berry (but we didn’t use Glidden paint)! If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our 
If you like an industrial chic look, this table is for you! How about some detail shots…
Stunning, right??
The drawer fronts and door fronts were painted with Benjamin Moore’s color Soft chinchilla 2135-50. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our 
You’ll also need super glue, a drill and pliers. I drilled about 2/3 of the way through the chess piece with a drill bit that was just a tiny bit smaller than the screws so it held tightly. Then dripped super glue into the holes and screwed the hanger bolts into the holes using pliers.
Pretty cool, right??
This piece is sold but you can check out all the new furniture for sale 
They wanted storage for wine bottles and a shelf. They also knew they wanted it to be teal! Other than that, they gave us free reign to come up with the design. Oh boy, you know how I love that!!
This bar was a custom order so it’s already sold but there are more new pieces on our 
We met to talk about it and she wanted open shelving so we removed all the doors on the front. The sides of the top were glass so we also built in side panels to make it look more like a shelf than a repurposed hutch. It’s painted with Benjamin Moore’s color Tropical Teal! After we painted it (with just one coat of paint), we heavily distressed it and glazed it using Rustoleum’s Antiquing Glaze. If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our 
Ohhhh how I love the new hardware!
I purposely left the inside of the cabinet without distressing it because I felt like distressing it would make the piece look too country! I wanted it to be clean to also make the pieces that were inside the focal point not the paint job. As I was putting everything together, I thought of using barn board for the shelves instead of painting the shelves cream. I called Carol and she gave me the ok to do that! I absolutely love that change!!
Here it is in it’s new home!!
Thank you so much for the business Carol and Paul!! Here’s a little before and after picture for you all, too!
This hutch was a custom order so it’s already sold but there are more new pieces on our 
It needed so much love!! It had damaged veneer and much cleaning was needed!! So, we started with the repair and cleaning. Next, I wanted to give it an aged pewter finish. So, I hand painted it with Ace silver metallic paint. If you’re using that, I highly recommend painting outside because it’s oil based and pretty stinky. It adheres really well on anything though. I tried using the orbital sander and hated it so I used my good old hands to sand the distressed area. As I was painting, I noticed that the bottom drawer had no detailing and would be a perfect spot for a print or design. I had bought these old map posters at Ballard Design in Florida a year ago and have been waiting for the right piece to use them on.
I used spray adhesive to to attach the poster to the drawer front and then clear coated it by using a spray paint can. I thought the silver was too bright at this point so I decided to glaze the whole piece to give it a darker more aged appearance. That’s exactly what it needed!! The glaze toned it down to the hue I was looking for. And, what do you think of those globe knobs I found ;) ?!
John and Josh built me an herb garden planter for Mother’s Day! I love, love it!
So, I ordered modern legs for it online and decided to give a traditional dresser a modern makeover!
The best part?? This dresser is for sale on our 
