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Schenectady Airbnb Eat In Kitchen Design

Hi Friends!

How was your weekend? My sister and her family are visiting for the first time in 6 years and we are thrilled to have them here. We spent some of the weekend in NYC going on a boat ride and watching my nephew play chess games in Washington Square Park.

For this weeks makeover, I’m sharing a complete new kitchen design that I did for an Airbnb in Schenectady. I don’t have a great before photo, but here’s what I do have:

It was just a blank slate with nothing much in the room, and a wall full of windows looking out over State Street.

So, I started by creating a design board:

We picked the layout of the kitchen and the contractors got to work!

Here are the after photos:

I want to say a huge thank you to Adnan for working with me on all of these projects and trusting me with the designs. If you’d like to rent this airbnb, click here. 

Could your home or airbnb use design help, I’d love to be a part of the project! Please message me today to set up a consult and get the project started! 

Check out more details about our Interior Design Services. 

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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Dark Gray Kitchen Cabinets with Board and Batten Walls

Hi Friends!

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How are you? If you missed it on social media, we camped up at Word of Life Pines and so enjoyed our stay! I’m not much of a tent camper, but ever since we bought our pull behind camper, it’s been a game changer in the camping world.

If you want to see more details or before and after pictures of the camper, click here.

For this week’s makeover, I’m sharing a kitchen makeover from one of my favorite design clients, Corey. He hired me to redo his living room back in 2017 and has also bought furniture and home decor from us over the last 6 years. You can check out his living room makeover here.

Here’s the kitchen before:

We added board and batten to the walls and then Corey painted it and the trim Simply White by Benjamin Moore. Then he painted the top half of the walls and the kitchen cabinets with Benjamin Moore City Shadow.

If you’d like to see how we paint Kitchen Cabinets, click here to check out our video on YouTube. 

Ready for the after photos?

BM City Shadow Kitchen Cabinets

We also installed tile backsplash.

I love the hand made style tile that feels perfectly imperfect.

We also redid the table and stools by refinishing the top and painting the base Valspar’s Lincoln Cottage Black.

Look how beautiful!

What an beautiful transformation!! 

Could your kitchen use an update? We’d love to help!! We can help pick out colors, finishes, product and do the cabinet painting, tiling, add new hardware. You can use our Contact Us form to request our design services or a quote for painting your kitchen. Please 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 where 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!

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ;)

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Black Secretary Desk for Sale

Hi Friends!

I hope the first couple weeks of summer have been going well for you so far! We have been trying to balance camping life and working life. It’s been fun! Happy Fourth of July!!!

I can’t wait to show you this secretary desk transformation. Here’s what we started with:

We painted the box with Valspar’s Lincoln Cottage Black, refinished the inside wood with Minwax’s Special Walnut, and sprayed the whole thing with a protective clear coat. We also added new hardware.

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

Here are the after photos for you:

Be sure to visit our SHOP page to see if this is still available or to check out what other pieces we have available for purchase or custom order. 

Or contact us to get a quote to let us redo your furniture for you! 

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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Mid Century Modern Dressers For Sale

Hi Friends!

To my friends in upstate NY with kids, congrats on finishing the school year! We just finished up and I can barely believe that next year, both of my kids will be in high school! I feel like they’ve both become little adults in the last year.

Say a prayer us as we walk through the teen years. For some reason I thought I’d have more free time as they got older, but the time and days seem to be flying by faster than ever. I don’t want to miss out on this time with them!

For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share the before and after photos from a dresser set that we just added to our shop page. If you’d like to purchase it, let me know!

Here are the dressers before:

We painted the boxes of both with Benjamin Moore Simply White and refinished the drawer fronts. Then we sprayed the hardware gold, and sprayed the whole piece with a protective clear coat.

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

Here are the after photos for you:

Be sure to visit our SHOP page to check if these pieces are still available or to check out what other pieces we have available.

Or contact us to get a quote to let us redo your furniture for you! 

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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Schenectady Airbnb Design Project – Spiral Staircase Apartment Bedroom and Bathroom

Hi Friends, 

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Last week, I showed you the main area of a spiral staircase and half bathroom that turned into a kitchen and living room. This week, I wanted to share the rest of this design by showing you the bedroom and bathroom makeover.

Here’s the bedroom before:

The walls were painted with Chantilly Lace, I added a BOHO vibe with the artwork above the headboard and the velvet duvet cover.

Ready for the afters?

Here you can see into the bedroom from the living room.

I don’t have a before photo to show you of the bathroom because it was built in an open space in the hallway!

Check out how beautiful it is though:

The second photo’s wall color is more true to the actual color of the walls. I love the wallpaper wand the floating vanity in this bathroom!

If you’d like to rent this airbnb, click here. 

Could your home or airbnb use design help, I’d love to be a part of the project! Please message me today to set up a consult and get the project started! 

Check out more details about our Interior Design Services. 

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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Schenectady Airbnb Design Project – Spiral Staircase Apt

Hi Friends,

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How are you? I hope you’re doing well! We celebrated our 20th anniversary over the weekend with a trip to Burlington, VT. We had such a wonderful time and I’ll share all the details soon, but here are a few teaser photos for you:

For this week’s makeover, I’m BEYOND excited to start sharing 1 of 5 Airbnb’s that I designed and have been working on with my client, Adnan, and his construction crew out in Schenectady, NY. Adnan met with me in June 2022 to get help with the room layouts and designs for converting 2 floors of a commercial building on State Street into 5 airbnbs.

This first apartment was just an office, hallway, half bathroom and spiral staircase into the law firm below. They had already started removing the staircase and that was the only space where we could fit any type of sitting area in the space. Here’s the before and after of that area:

This is the design board for that space:

Look how cute it is now:

There was a half bathroom in the space where we wanted to put the kitchen so we moved it to the end of the kitchen and opened up the room completely.

Here that section is before:

Here’s the design board for the kitchen:

Here’s the room once it was completely done:

Stay tuned!! I’ll be sharing the before and after photos of the bathroom and bedroom in this unit as well. If you’d like to rent this airbnb, click here.

Could your home or airbnb use design help, I’d love to be a part of the project! Please message me today to set up a consult and get the project started!

Check out more details about our Interior Design Services. 

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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Swiss Coffee and Lincoln Cottage Black Kitchen Makeover

Hi Friends!

How are you? I hope you had a nice weekend! We had a mix of baseball, church events, and time with family and friends so it was full and beautiful!

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I’m excited to share this kitchen makeover because I love the transformation, but also because I think the couple who had us do the work are pretty great! Ann Marie and Tim have been cheering us on for years. Tim even designed our newest logo. Check out his website if you could use help with your website or graphic design.

Here’s the before photos of their kitchen:

I love their home to begin with. It’s modern, but with great art work and design (just like I’d expect from a couple who does graphic design and marketing).

We painted the kitchen cabinets with Benjamin Moore’s color Swiss Coffee, the island Valspar’s Lincoln Cottage Black, and added all new hardware.

If you’d like to see how we paint Kitchen Cabinets, click here to check out our video on YouTube. 

Ready for the after photos?

Oh and we also painted their kitchen table.

What an beautiful transformation!! 

Could your kitchen use an update? We’d love to help!! We can help pick out colors, finishes, product and do the cabinet painting, tiling, add new hardware. You can use our Contact Us form to request our design services or a quote for painting your kitchen. Please 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 where 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!

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,

Sarah ;)

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Modernize an Outdated Hutch

Hi Friends!

I hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend! We went out of town to visit friends, and had a nice time unplugging from how busy life has felt lately. I think it’s the spring cleaning and yard work mixed with baseball and normal work, but I’ve felt like we’ve been non stop for a while.

For this week’s makeover, we had an old oak hutch that our client wanted to update. So we altered the base to remove the curvature, installed all new shaker doors, and new hardware.

Here’s the hutch before:

After making all the alterations, we painted the box with BM Black.

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

Here’s a couple photos of the afters:

This hutch isn’t available to purchase on our shop page because it was done as a custom order. Be sure to visit our SHOP page to check out what other pieces we have available for purchase or custom order. 

Or contact us to get a quote to let us redo your furniture for you! 

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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Repurposed Idea House Patio

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Four years ago we bought an old farmhouse house built in 1802, and have been redoing it room by room. At the end of last year we finished all the inside projects, and you can check those out here. One thing you may not know though is that the house is set on a lot that is set back from the road and has over 3 acres. I love how serene and beautiful it is here. That’s actually one of my favorite parts about this house. Our last house was probably even cuter than our current house, but it was on a busy road so it wasn’t as quiet or peaceful. In this house, we’ve been wanted to work on the gardens and outdoor space, but had to keep our focus inside to get the projects done on time. This spring we finally had the time to complete our final large project. The outdoor patio! We had stamped concrete installed, built a Gazebo kit, and decorated it all. I’ve so enjoyed working outside and having drinks with friends in this beautiful setting.

Oh, and can you spot our adorable June just for extra cuteness! I’m so happy with how this turned out, and I hope it inspires you to get outside and enjoy the outdoor space at your home!

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)


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Repurposed Nursery Dresser – Tuesday’s Treasures

Hi Friends!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mom’s reading this blog! I hope you felt loved! We enjoyed church together, went plant shopping, and then had my family over for dinner! Such a sweet day with family!

For this week’s before and after, I wanted to share a custom project that we recently finish for a client who wanted us to repurpose a dresser for their babies room.

Here’s the dresser before:

They had a crib they were trying to match that was raw wood and black so we sanded and stained the drawers and top with Valspar’s Sunbleached, then painted the box with Benjamin Moore’s Black.

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

Here’s a couple more photos of the afters:

This dresser isn’t available to purchase on our shop page because it was done as a custom order. Be sure to visit our SHOP page to check out what other pieces we have available for purchase or custom order. 

Or contact us to get a quote to let us redo your furniture for you! 

Thank you all for following along! If you’d like to get this blog in your email once a week, please sign up for our weekly newsletter by adding your email in the little box below my picture. 

If you’ve enjoyed this post, please like FunCycled on  Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest if you don’t already. Keep up to date on the newest finds, vote on colors and give your input on our creativity. We share fun tutorials, great before and after, and new design inspirations. 

We offer interior design, kitchen cabinet painting, and custom built tables, barn doors, and repurposed furniture. Thank you, again, for working with us and for taking the time to spread the word about what we do. 

Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)