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Posted on December 15, 2015January 9, 2016 by Sarah — 1 Comment

Repurposed Simply White Ombre Mid-Century Desk – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? We’ve had back to back busy weekends at the store so thank you very, very much to all who came out and shopped so far this holiday season!!! I don’t know about you but I can not believe Christmas is 10 days away. I mean really… didn’t we just start 2015? This year I’m trying something new with my kids at Christmas and I wanted to encourage you all to consider it, too. We all want to do less presents, right? Then we never end up actually doing less. I know, I know. I tried to limit and I did pretty well but can’t seem to get it down to 1-2 presents. So, I tried to switch gears a bit and make experiences together the biggest part of their Christmas gifts. Something like this… I am putting Coupon Books in their stockings. You can get free printables for the books on Pinterest. I liked these by WonderMom Wannabe. I’m hoping it will be a good reason to make extra memories together this year. If your kids are anything like mine, they won’t let you forget that they have the coupons and will use them. We are also planning small trips with each child individually. The busier life gets the more I realize it’s not OK to have my kids be the first people who get pushed aside. They are what matter to me and they won’t forget. Friends come and go and life situations change but those little monkeys will always be my babies.

As for the furniture makeover, we have another mid century piece that is sure to melt my soul… as always. Here it is before:

Pretty UGLY! Right?

We sanded it down quite a bit to get it smooth since it had been painted before. We painted this desk using Benjamin Moore’s color Simply White. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. We stained the drawer fronts using water down painted.

This desk is for sale right now! We just brought it into the store last week. 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!

6 Mahogany Chairs with Coffee Sack Seats

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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.

Posted on December 8, 2015January 9, 2016 by Sarah

Deer Head Modern Buffet – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

It’s been such an exciting busy week here! This past Sunday was the annual Victorian Stroll in downtown Troy. It’s takes a lot of time to prepare for, but I enjoy the event so very very much! I wanted to say a huge thanks to all the staff and family who came out to help us! My mom, dad, friends Jo Ann and Stephanie, brother Jesse and of course, my Johnny made this day go seamlessly! Mayor Rosamilia and his wife Peggy stopped by at the same time as Uncle Sam so we had to snap a shot! We really have enjoyed getting to know Mayor Rosamilia and his wife. Such kind hearted, down to earth people.

Also, if you missed it lat week, we announced Broken to Beautiful! We’ll be redoing 6 furniture pieces for free in 2016. Read all about it and how to submit here.

Let’s talk about this weeks furniture transformation! We bought this buffet because I loved the lines… I just couldn’t wait to add some stained drawer fronts. Then I found deer head knobs and I had to add them to the design. There are deer heads everywhere lately and although I wouldn’t really want a real dear head on my wall, I like the geometric animal head designs for some reason. My mom thought I was crazy when I grabbed them at the store. Lol!

Here’s the buffet before:

We painted this dresser using Benjamin Moore’s color Simply White. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. We stained the drawer fronts using Kona stain by Rustoleum on the doors. Then the top drawer was stained with Weathered Oak by Minwax, the middle drawer was stained with Early American by Minwax, and the bottom drawer was stained with Classic Gray by Minwax.

Here’s the after!

This buffet is for sale right now! We just brought it into the store last week. 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! Continue reading Deer Head Modern Buffet – Tuesday’s Treasures

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Sarah — 1 Comment

FunCycled Furniture Painting Classes in the Capital District

Hi Friends!!!

A highly anticipated time has come! We have partnered with the Art Center of the Capital Region to offer classes on how to paint your own furniture. This is such an exciting announcement for us!! I’ve considered myself an artist above all else in this business! I’ve been painting since I was a teenager. I was home schooled and my parents invested in having me go to an amazing art teacher to learn how to paint for years. I had art in galleries and loved everything about it. Then I started enjoying interior design and painting furniture. The rest is history! ;)

This class will be 3 hours long. You’ll bring your own piece (anything small that you can carry through a door by yourself) and we will paint it completely and distress it if you’d like, during that time period. I’ll show you painting techniques that I’ve learned over the last 4 years of re-purposing furniture full time. Bring your friends and make it a night (or morning) outing! You can see a full list of class dates and register for them here: Repainting to Repurpose with FunCycled

Here’s some examples of furniture finishes you’ll be taught in the class!

This class would make a great gift for a friend or loved one! If you have friends that love DIY or paint and sip classes, this should be the next outing for your fun night out!

Won’t it be fun to give new life and add character to your favorite piece of furniture? Thank you for appreciating art and supporting our local community!

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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

Posted on December 1, 2015August 23, 2024 by Sarah

Broken to Beautiful by FunCycled

Broken to Beautiful is FunCycled’s way of sharing love and kindness. Saying thank you to our customers and community!

This idea started with an idea that was planted in my heart several years ago while attending the Capital City Rescue Mission’s annual banquet. They showed how God takes broken lives… permeated by drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness, and makes them beautiful through the power of Christ’s love and grace. Hearing the stories and listening to those affected speak brought me back to the basics. It reminded me that without Christ I am broken but His death, burial and resurrection makes me beautiful in God’s eyes. All of my sins have been wiped clean by Christ’s victory over death on the cross. (2 Timothy 1:9)

Over the years, God has blessed FunCycled by giving us continued opportunities to restore and refresh well used or broken furniture through our design services. We repair it, redesign it and it’s given new life. One of the things I love about my job is that every project reminds me of the most important work… the work God does in our hearts. He takes the old, damaged, or hurting and gives us new life in Christ.

Through our Broken to Beautiful initiative, it is our desire to redesign a piece of furniture or complete an upcycling project for free to bless one individual within our community. We have done this in a variety of ways over the years, and it is special every time!

From our hearts to yours,

Sarah & the FunCycled Team

Here’s how to be part of this initiative:

✔️Complete this submission form where you will provide us with your contact information as well as supply photo(s) of the project you would like completed. Remember, you can make a submission for you or for someone else who maybe would never be able to afford a project like this. SUBMIT TODAY

✔️Within the form, we will want to know a little more about why this project is so important. Maybe share some of this history behind the piece you are submitting or tell us a fun story about how you rescued the furniture piece.

✔️Attach a picture of the piece you would like redone. You can do this through the form.

✔️We will send you a consent form to sign allowing FunCycled to make any and all alterations to the piece. You will need to sign that and give FunCycled all rights to make changes and creative freedom to redo it however we determine. (You can make suggestions, but we will not guarantee any specific design)

✔️If you have a picture of the room it will be going in, send a picture of that as well.

OUR CURRENT INITIATIVE

We will open up submissions on August 1, 2024 and close out on August 15, 2024. Once a winner has been selected, we will notify them and proceed with the next steps.

Don’t forget…the more information you provide us about the history of the piece or the story behind why you would like it saved, the better. It will help us decide who the winners will be! Thank you for sharing this with your friends and for wanting to repurpose along side of us!

MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION HERE

We look forward to hearing from you!

TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF OUR PAST FURNITURE REPURPOSE PROJECTS!

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

Posted on December 1, 2015January 9, 2016 by Sarah — 1 Comment

The Furniture That Takes Me Forever to Figure Out – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? These couple of weeks are some of the busiest of the year for retail shops. We barely got a chance to take a breath after Thanksgiving before we were thrown into Black Friday and Shop Small Saturday – we love that shopping local is becoming a holiday tradition with new and old customers! This Sunday (12/06) is Troy’s Victorian Stroll from 11am-5pm. It is such a fun event; the streets are open with live performances, caroling and food vendors, and of course the shopping! If you’ve never been, it should become a new yearly tradition. Make sure to stop in and say hello!

With certain furniture pieces, I look at them and know exactly what I want to do with them the minute I see them. With others… not so much! I let it sit and sit and almost give up. Then I get a determined spirit and decide it must be conquered. The last time I remember feeling that way with a piece of furniture was with my aunt’s Gray and White Hutch Makeover. Then came this hutch…Something about it left me questioning which way I should go with the design. Until I found this hardware:
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Posted on November 24, 2015January 9, 2016 by Sarah

Silvery Moonlight Dresser – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? We have been so enjoying the warm weather in Upstate NY! I’ll take it as long as we can get it! Since we’ve moved into our 1805 dream house, all I’ve wanted to do was decorate, but I had to wait until we were unpacked and the painting was completed. It was KILLING me not to be putting pretty things on the wall. Finally this week I was able to take on a couple of fun transformations! Here are two….

Created a gallery wall over the mantel in our living room.
John built me a dining room table! I’ll share pictures of it soon, but here is its first place setting. An early Thanksgiving feast with John’s side of the family.

Many more things are in the works! We will have more inspiration for you from our 1805 dream house soon! Remember to follow along on Facebook or Instagram!

This week’s furniture transformation is a custom order from Erin. She wanted to take this old bruised dresser and turn it into an eye catching piece in her home. Here it is before:

We painted this dresser using Behr’s color Silvery Moonlight. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we also glazed it using Valspar’s Antiquing Glaze. Erin also wanted to use all of the original hardware, but painted gold!

Here’s the after!

If you would like us to paint something you already own, 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 ;)

Posted on November 17, 2015September 25, 2017 by Sarah

Colorful Home Interior Designs – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How’s your week going?? We have been working and enjoying the first week in our 1805 dream house. I’m still in unpacking mode, but very soon I will be decorating and sharing photos with you. One fun thing I did this week was with the light in our living room. I didn’t like the dome light at all, but I didn’t want to buy a more dramatic chandelier until the room was more put together. While I was unpacking, I came across a brand new lamp shade that a friend had given me. I’ve never seen this done before, but for some reason, I thought my idea of using this shade might work for now. I took the glass part of the light off, turned the lamp shade upside down, and screwed in the end cap that was on the glass through the section of the lamp shade that would normally be where you’d screw it onto the lamp. Here’s the quick before and after!

This Thursday we celebrate our one year store anniversary! We’ll be open from 12-7pm and have free food from 2-7pm so please stop by and say hi! We would love to see you all and thank you for the business you’ve given us this year.

Each week we normally show you before and after pictures of furniture makeovers and of course furniture repurposing is my design crush. Since I’ve had decorating on my mind so much, I thought I would share photos from an interior design project I finished last year. Jessica and I had such similar styles, working with her was the best. We ended up doing the interior painting, designs and most of the furniture for them.

Let’s start with the living room, shall we? We wanted lots of hues of teals. Jessica (and my) favorite color is teal so this was just the place to do it.

We also wanted to bring in green and magenta with the furniture and accents. We custom designed the hutch and by turning it into a library. You can see the before and after’s of the library here.

Then we went to the master bedroom. These pictures don’t show much of the decor or the bed because it wasn’t in when we did the photo shoot. I absolutely love this oak mid century dresser set. The ombre stained drawer and the bright aqua box is so great! You can see how we created the ombre dressers here.

The guest bedroom is a perfect gray combination but with a pop of lime green instead of yellow. Everyone puts yellow with gray and it looks great, we just wanted to brighten up the yellow to give it a more modern vibe. There son’s room was fun, too! Oliver wanted to have blue and orange. He wanted a very bright orange so we included it wherever we could. This mid century desk looked great with orange and we toned down the bright color with the stained drawer fronts again. Check out how we redid the desk here.

Up next is their daughters room! We wanted to bring in lots of bright color but with more feminine furniture. We made that happen with a gray french provincial dresser set, an orange bookcase, and bright pops of pink and teal. We didn’t do a bed yet because they wanted the mattress to be close to the floor while Kennley learned how to sleep in a big girl bed. See the dresser set transformation story here.

I hope these pictures have inspired you! We will have more inspiration for you from our 1805 dream house soon! Remember to follow along on Facebook or Instagram!

If you have rooms that need help with beautiful furniture and unique designs, please use our Contact Us form for a quote 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 ;)

Posted on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 by Sarah

Making History Your Own – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends,

How are you? We are living in what feels like a bed and breakfast… our new 1805 dream house! We have been arms deep in paint and light demo. It’s been long days but we’ve been loving every minute of it. Here are some of the things we adore about it already…. the river stone fireplace.

The black wall and antique mantel we added to the dining room…

And last but not least is our little creek or as Harmony called it this week “the lake” in our back yard.

Our over 200 year old house has been reminding me of what I love most about what I do, taking something really old with a lot of history and making it new again, to love for years to come. I thought it would be fun to share this project.

Rebecca came to us with this trunk that her grandfather made with his own two hands. She wanted to make it something she could use every day so she could think of him BUT also love how it looked. She spared no expense to make it stunning.

She asked me how I pictured it redone. I showed her exactly what I wanted to do with it and she was on board 100%. That made this project really fun for me!!

We painted the whole piece with Benjamin Moore’s silver fox color. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we heavily distressed it and glazed it using Valspar’s Antiquing Glaze. Even with doing all that it still looked like a typical old trunk so we wanted to jazz it up a bit. We used antique caster wheels on the base. We also added corner brackets and a vintage style lock on the front. I don’t think I could be more in love with the after:

If you have an old furniture piece with a great memory that you would like to love again, please use our Contact Us form for a quote 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 ;)

Posted on November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 by Sarah — 2 Comments

Vintage Teal Mirrored Dresser – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

It’s an exciting week! The highly anticipated week that we move into our new home is happening now!! I can’t even explain how excited we are! I honestly never thought we would own a house like this. All along the way, we’ve been so humbled by how God worked every detail out. From selling our house for exactly what we needed in two weeks and a day, to finding bedroom sets that are perfect for the house for $20 at a yard sale, to the exact mess sink that we needed for free along side the road last night. One thing after another has given us such peace that this is where God is moving us. We couldn’t have made it happen if we wanted to.
We are doing the prep work this week and I’ll be sharing some photos along the way soon. Follow us on Facebook or Instagram for fun photos as we make this house our home.

As for this week’s transformation… Here it is before:

We bought this dresser at a barn sale to raise money for an orphanage. It definitely needed repair and love, but we gladly added those details! We painted this dresser using Valspar’s Vintage Teal color. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. After we painted it, we also glazed it using Valspar’s Antiquing Glaze.

We also bought the antique mirror from the Stormville Flea Market a couple of months ago. When we bought the dresser, I instantly thought the mirror would look perfect on top.

Here’s the after!

This dresser is for sale right now! We just brought it into the store last week. 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 ;)

Posted on October 27, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

Updating Nursery Furniture Into A Rustic Bedroom Set – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? We moved out of our house this weekend and oh my word, I don’t want to move ever again. We are living with my parents for a week while we wait to close on our new home. The thought of lugging boxes and furniture all over again, when we move into the new house this weekend leaves me feeling overwhelmed at best. Check out this REALLY SAFE way the guys decided to move my piano from the upstairs.

Moving aside, I’m so very excited to get into the house and have fun designing. It’s going to be a 200 year old gem.

This week’s transformation is a fun one! Amy came to us because she had a lot of her son’s nursery furniture, that was well made. She wanted keep the sentimentality of the pieces but her son had definitely outgrown the nursery furniture. She also wanted to have the furniture redone in a way that could easily convert to a guest bedroom when he moves out.

Here are all the pieces before.
We wanted it to have a rustic feel by incorporating barn board. Also, Amy wanted to turn the bookcase into a desk. That was the fun part! We painted all of the furniture black. For the headboard, we attached a board along the back to connect both ends of the crib. Then to give it a more mature look we added barn board on the centers of each section.
We also painted the dresser black! If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.
The bookcase was so much fun! We repositioned the shelves and John built the desk top and legs from the same barn board. It easily inserted inside and then we attached it to the shelf with a couple of screws from the underneath side.
Here are some quick before and after’s for you to pin on Pinterest. ;)

Even though this one is sold, we have many more pieces on our Furniture For Sale page so be sure to click on over and check it out!

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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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