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Posted on October 20, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

A Gold Painted 1920’s Buffet – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends,

I hope you’re having a great day! This week we pack up and move out of our current house. I can’t believe how quickly all of this has happened. We weren’t even looking for a house! At the end of the summer we drove by a house that we would normally only dream about owning and saw that it was for sale. We checked if we could get financing, found out we could, went to take a look and fell in love with it. I can’t wait to show you all pictures of this house, our soon to be home, I believe you’ll fall in love, too. It’s over 200 years old and full of charm.

Since I’m moving right smack dab in the middle of retail’s busiest time of year, I may be a little brief in my posts over the next few weeks. Stick with me, ok? I’ll be back with a vengeance, showing exciting transformations, with fun stories to tell too – I promise. :)

Today’s makeover is such a unique transformation. Ellen has had us redo another furniture piece, and now came to us with this buffet that DEFINITELY needed help. It’s hard to tell from the picture but the whole top right side had bubbling and peeling veneer. It needed lots and lots of repair.

Ellen has other gold accents in her house and loved the original gold detailing on this buffet. She also loved the transformation we did on the buffet of Mr. and Mrs. Sophisticated.

I recommended that since the box was so damaged, we should repair and paint the box gold. Then we could repair the wood on the door fronts and keep all of the original gold detailing. She loved the idea and we got to work. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.
Here’s a quick before and after pic for 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 ;)

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 October 13, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

Gray Hutch Makeover – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

I hope you’re having a great week! Thanks so much to all of you who came out to our moving sale. It was great catching up with you. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, we bought a new house and are moving just a few minutes away from where we live now. Our store will still be on River Street in Troy. Nothing is changing there, but we will have a much better work space at our new house and we are so looking forward to it.

We are currently enjoying the last overnight house guest in this house. Having our friends Caleb and Chrisie at our house is like reminiscing about the good old days. Days with late night laughing till your face hurts. Board games and candy canes and all that good stuff. Chrisie has walked through so many seasons of life with me and has been a constant support. Filled with faith and confidence in God, love for her family and laughter. I’m more than honored to spend a few days with her, her hubby and their 5 kiddos… 7 and under.

As for this week, I want to share a makeover we recently did as a custom order. Linda inherited much of her father’s furniture. She wanted to love them again while still keeping memories of her father so she asked us to breath new life into them. One of my favorite parts about my job is when I get to transform something that someone adores and help them keep a furniture piece with history in their home.

Here’s the hutch before… sorry it’s not a great picture!
We painted it using Benjamin Moore’s color Urban Bronze. It’s a new color that I’ve been wanting to try for a long time. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. We also added fabric to the back. Fabric can make such a difference on a hutch transformation. The unique part about this makeover was that I kept the shelves the original wood. I thought it tied in with the colors in the fabric well. What do you think?

Here are the after’s for you.
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!

Also, here’s a quick before and after picture for Pinterest!

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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

Posted on October 6, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah — 1 Comment

Bring on the Color – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How’s it going there? It’s life in the fast lane here at FunCycled. If you missed the announcement last week, we are moving to a new house with a better work set up. Yes, I’ll miss those beautiful barn doors, too! But our new place really is such a beauty! I can’t wait to share pictures with you once everything is finalized.
I was able to go away on a ladies retreat with some friends at church over the weekend. The Adirondacks are so beautiful and it was a much needed time to catch my breath. Selling a house and buying a house can be so stressful. I also tried archery and it was lots of fun!

One thing that has changed a bit since opening our retail store instead of doing mainly custom orders is that I paint WAY more white, black and gray furniture than I ever did. I don’t know why, but you all love buying those shades. ;) That’s ok but sometimes I just need to get my color on and this buffet seemed to be asking for it. Yeah…. they talk to me. Just kidding they don’t. They do. No they don’t. Do. Don’t. ;)

Here it is before:
We used a mixture of teals that I already had so I can’t tell you the exact color. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. Here are the after’s for you.

Here’s a quick before and after for Pinterest.

This cabinet 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 September 29, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah — 2 Comments

Black and Silver Mid Century Dresser Makeover – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

I hope you’re having a great week! We have had quite the week. ;) Nothing is 100% until all the paperwork is signed and a closing has happened, but so far it looks like we’ll be moving. Not the FunCycled store, our home! I’ll share more details as everything comes together, but man am I excited about what’s to come. Why am I telling you this before it’s all done? Well, we are going to have a barn sale to sell much of the furniture that I’ve had for a couple years but haven’t had a chance to re-purpose yet. Mostly because if I haven’t gotten to it in two years, I probably never will and because I REALLY don’t want to move it, ;) The prices will be amazing! I may have some personal items and I will definitely have lots of left over paint so plan to come by! We’ll be having it on October 9th and 10th from 9am-2pm! Please plan to swing by and tell all of your friends, ok?

This week’s transformation is pretty cool if I do say so myself. We bought this dresser at a barn sale that raises money to help orphans in need. It’s my favorite reason to buy furniture… to help others. Here it is before:
It needed quite a bit of veneer repair, but we took care of that and sanded down the drawer fronts. We painted this dresser with black enamel paint. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. I used ACE hardware’s Metallic Silver Finish for the drawer fronts.

Here are the after pictures!

Here’s a quick before and after for Pinterest!

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 September 22, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

Repurposed Sled into a Side Table – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

Hope you’re having a good week. It’s getting colder here in upstate NY which means the fall foliage is coming soon. I adore fall… its crisp evenings and the amazing vibrant colors of the trees. This weekend we did our first “fall activity”, going to a local farm festival. We went to Predel’s Ranch and had a blast on the hay ride, riding the miniature horses, and checking out all of the animals. Here are farm photos from the day. :)

This week’s makeover started with this small antique children’s sled.
A customer named Theresa sent that picture over and asked how we could turn it into something unique for her great nephew’s nursery. Her niece had used this sled when she was a child and it was one of the few memories that they still had a tangible item to go along with. She wanted to surprise her niece at the baby shower with a one of a kind present.

We decided the back arm had to be removed or it would look too awkward. So here it sits… trying to decide what to do with it. Then John built a base for it to make it a small side table.
We went back and forth about whether to keep some of the original markings of the sled. Theresa and I talked it over and she decided to go with all gray so it would be neutral in any nursery. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.
The gray we chose was Benjamin Moore’s Silver Fox color.
After the photos we also ended up buying glass for the top, too! Here’s a quick before and after picture for Pinterest!

Hope you love it and want to repupose something from you childhood into something you’ll use and love now.

Even though this is sold, we have so many other beautiful furniture pieces on our website and in our store for sale right now. Check out our Furniture For Sale page here!! Here are just a few pieces on our for sale page this week.

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ;)

Posted on September 15, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

Black Mid-Century Number Dresser – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

I hope you’re all having a great week! School started here last week and boy oh boy do I feel like my kids have changed so much since last year.
I’m loving driving the kids to school this year! We started praying together on the way to school this year. It’s a perfect way to get some quiet time and start the day out right. The kids have seemed so much more caring about others needs since taking time to pray about them at the start of the day.

Today’s transformation is a fun one – similar to our navy number dresser from over two years ago. When Michelle came to us about wanting a makeover like the number dresser, I couldn’t wait to do it! We had to find something similar and work with it to match her room.
Here it is before:
We painted this dresser with black enamel paint. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.
For the stripe, we sanded and stained the wood part then covered it before painting the black. Then we added the white stripe after we painted the black.

A quick before and after picture for Pinterest!

Even though this is sold, we have so many other beautiful furniture pieces on our website and in our store for sale right now. Check out our Furniture For Sale page here!! Here are just a few pieces on our for sale page this week.

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ;)

Posted on September 8, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

A Lakehouse Guestroom with a Fern Dresser – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

How are you? We just got home from an amazing vacation with most of my family at Ocean City, NJ! It was HOT last week and that’s exactly what I love. It made the salty ocean warm enough for me to actually want to swim in it. We had so so much fun! Here are some pics I thought you might enjoy from the trip…
This week’s project was nothing less than a complete delight to work on. Susan has been a huge FunCycled fan since we first made over of her daughter’s bedroom set. We then built a custom maple table and matching buffet for her dining room. She also bid on and won a dresser from our Hope International blog auction. The newest project was designing a room for their vacation lake house in Vermont. She loves grays and greens and all things nature inspired. We custom built this headboard and end stands for the guest room.
Susan also wanted to upcycle something she already owned so she asked me if I could somehow incorporate this dresser to make it work in the room. Or course!!! I love to give new life to furniture our customers already own.
We sanded and stained the drawer fronts with a mixture of gray/brown stains. The outside of the dresser is painted with the color Navajo White by Benjamin Moore. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. We replaced all of the hardware as well.

I really wanted to incorporate ferns into the design of the room. Susan likes ferns and greens and I have always loved ferns. At our first house we had lots of ferns in a little city-sized back yard. I adored them! One day a friend decided to help me landscape and ripped almost all of them out. I was devastated and she may never live that down… I’m a bitter soul. lol On the day she moved into her new home; years later, I brought her a big potted fern. :) All that to say, I enjoyed incorporating something I love so much into a design. Ready for the after?

And a close up of the details…
I free handed the fern on the front. So that part you’ll have to eye ball. ;) Here’s a quick before and after picture for Pinterest!

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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

Posted on September 1, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

Navy Striped Nursery Furniture – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends,

I hope you had a great week!! Another hectic week here at FunCycled with lots of pieces selling and expanding the business by adding some new aspects. I’ll tell you more about those soon!

This week’s transformation was a custom order for Chelsea and Jonathan’s baby. He’s coming in October so we wanted to have the room ready for him in September just in case. Chelsea was fun to work with because she genuinely loves design but also trusted my opinion on some design ideas. I enjoyed thinking through every detail of these pieces. She wanted a tall dresser instead of a long dresser, but also wanted something to change the baby on. I recommended using desk because it’s deep enough and has storage but could be more usable as her son grows. I wish I had thought to do that instead of getting a changing table for my little ones.

Here are the pieces before. I had started prepping them when I remembered to take a picture (they weren’t this bad to begin with. :)

We painted the box with the color Old Navy by Benjamin Moore. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. As you can see with the picture above, we sanded down to the wood on the top where the stripe is and then stained it. Once that was done, we taped off the stained section and painted it navy. After that had been dry for a couple days, we taped it off again and painted it with a creamy white for the stripes.

Ready for the afters?

I love the hardware for this piece because it’s very kid friendly. The handles bend so if a kiddos falls into them they wouldn’t get hurt.

Thank you Chelsea and Jonathan for letting us be a special part of your little miracle’s room. Here’s a quick before and after picture for Pinterest!

Also, if you haven’t already seen it, please check out the post before this one. We put a piece of furniture up for bid and the winning bidder

I also added quite a few other new pieces to the store!

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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

Posted on August 31, 2015August 26, 2015 by Sarah — 1 Comment

Hope International Fundraising Auction Today – Black Side/Accent Table

FunCycled was thrilled to partner with Hope International in October 2014 as a financial advocate. We were motivated by the call to serve and invest in entrepreneurs in developing nations. Our fundraising provides money for small business loans – a loan as small as $100 can change a family forever. This is called Hope Rising!! John and I are passionate about empowering the poor to provide for themselves and their families through the life changing power of Christ-centered microfinance. It’s our heartbeat and we hope to show you enough that your heart will be encouraged to help in this way too.

During 2014-15, on the 31st of those months that have 31 days, FunCycled will auction off a piece of furniture and donate the proceeds to HOPE. Here are the rules:

1. All bidding will take place on the FunCycled blog. You can bid by commenting on this blog post, utilizing the comment box below. Bids placed on Instagram or the FunCycled Facebook page are invalid.
2.The starting bidding price is listed under the picture, and bids must go up in increments of at least one dollar.
3. Bidding will be open for 48 hours. It will open at noon on the 31st, and close at noon two days later. Once bidding has been closed, I will announce the winner and contact them with payment instructions. The winner has 24 hours to respond before the piece is offered to the runner up.
4. The purchaser will be responsible for all shipping fees (or can pick up at our store – 272 River Street, Troy, NY 12180). (If you live out of state – please check shipping pricing with uship.com before purchasing to ensure you can afford the out of state shipping costs)

You get beautiful furniture, and a family trapped in poverty has a pathway to income and a sustainable future. That sounds like a win – win to us!

Please help spread the word by sharing. Thank you for your support!

$275 Large Black Side Table Size: 35 inches wide x 30 inches deep x 30 inches high

Retail Value: $295

Starting Bid: $95

To see what furniture we have for sale, check out our Furniture For Sale Page! Here are a few of the new pieces!

Happy bidding 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. There is a box at the top right of this page to enter your email address in to receive notifications by email when I post something new on this blog.

Please sign up today! 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 will 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 August 25, 2015October 27, 2015 by Sarah

Chic Industrial Hutch Makeover – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

Can you believe school is starting in two weeks? For many of you, it’s already started. I can’t believe summer break is almost over. This summer has not been what I expected it to be, but I not saying that in a bad way. I didn’t expect the store to be as busy as it was. We made it through and I’ve learned so much for next year. I’ve learned how to manage a busy work schedule. I’ve learned how to say no… if you know me at all you know how hard that is for me. At the same time, I’ve missed my kids. Next summer I’ll definitely get some extra help so I can be with them more. I’ve missed my friends because almost every night I worked after the kids went to bed until midnight. I say all that to say anything worth doing is worth growing through. If it doesn’t challenge you, it probably won’t change you. A friend said the other day that my life is a vacation. In some ways it was a compliment and also showed me that I’m faking it well to her apparently. At least she knows I enjoy my work. I’m doing what I love every day, but my life is DEFINITELY not a vacation. Running a business like this requires so very many hours, hot days, heavy lifting, and taxes. So much taxes. lol

Someone also asked me the other day how I did everything I do. How do I balance work and family and church and friends? I replied with this…

Thanks to the Lord who really did give me His strength on days that seemed too short for the to do lists, when the nights seemed to end too quickly and the morning came too soon. He lifted me up and He will continue.

So I say thank you for the yesterdays and for what tomorrows He may give me. If you feel this way, too, lean heavily into Him. Ask for His strength. Read the Bible for encouragement. Be part of a church family who will lift you up and love on you like no one ever has. He is faithful.

Oh and some exciting news!! As of this week we will be a Repurpose Repaint Retailer. It’s a DIY water based paint (not chalk paint) that doesn’t require sanding. It’s a perfect option for you DIYers out there that love to get your hands dirty and are ok with brushed finish.

As for the makeover today, I wanted to share this hutch transformation. If you liked our Rustic Chic Dresser Set, you will probably like this hutch transformation, too!

Before:

We removed the fancy details on each drawer and the inside frame on the doors. That gave us the depth we would need to add wood to the front.

Once we did that, we used aged wood so it had a naturally gray finish. I didn’t stain or do anything to the color of the wood. Just stained the side where the cuts were to make it match the original gray color of the wood. If you end up trying a project like this, you have to be very careful to keep the wood exactly the right size so it sits perfectly on the drawer.

We painted the box Simply White by Benjamin Moore. If you’d like to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post. Ready for the afters?

A quick Before and After pic for Pinterest:

This hutch 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.

Mark your calendars! This Friday Night is Troy Night Out and we will be open from 12-8pm. We would love for you to stop by to see all the new pieces, paint line and of course home decor! All on street and garage parking is free after 5pm so it’s a perfect date night, girls night out, or heck a night out by yourself. You won’t be able to NOT have a fun time. :)

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 ;)

Even though this is sold, we have so many other beautiful furniture pieces on our website and in our store for sale right now. Check out our Furniture For Sale page here!! Here are just a few pieces on our for sale page this week.

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Even though this is sold, we have so many other beautiful furniture pieces on our website and in our store for sale right now. Check out our Furniture For Sale page here!! Here are just a few pieces on our for sale page this week.

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah Trop