Category: Before and After

Happy week of the end of Daylight Savings Time. If you are like me with young kids, you may want to start protesting the idea of this whole time change thing. Why in the world do we need to change…

Hi Friends! This week I want to share with you quick before and after pictures of three pieces that went into a room as a matching set. Mary Jo reached out to us to revive some furniture pieces that have…

Hi Friends! Has your month of October flown by as fast as mine?? Man oh man!! I blink and look at the corner of my computer screen to see that it's the 22nd! Where did the month go?? It's been…

Good morning friends! I know it's not a Tuesday's Treasures, but I wanted to take time to share this makeover for you. We just finished up a new piece and added it to our Furniture For Sale Page. Here it…

Hi All!!! I'm beyond excited to share this before and after with you. Ever since I first laid eyes on this file cabinet, I wanted to turn it into a hall tree bench. One of our customers, Laurie, stopped by…

Hi All! It's been such a fun week here!! Yesterday was my 30th birthday and if you follow our facebook page you've seen some of the random acts of kindness that we did throughout the day. I'll be doing a…

Hi All! It's been a wonderful, wonderful week here!!! My very dear friend Marcie planned a surprise 30th birthday party for me this past weekend. Don't worry I'm still in my 20's until next week, she had to do it…

Happy Tuesday everyone!! We're all about change here at FunCycled... making the old new again with repair, color or classic styles. Sometimes I look at a piece and think that's not too bad looking. Should I change it?? But then…

Hi All! How's it going?? We had a great weekend here full of happy and bitter sweet moments. Our little sweetie turned 4 this week!! How did she get this big?? And, John and I went on a double date…

Hi All! How was the first week of school for most of you in upstate NY??? It was our first year for both our Little Man who started kindergarten and for Sweetie going into Pre-K. If you want to see…

Hi Friends! If you're one of our Facebook fans, you'll see that I've been a little MIA this week. I've been fighting a nasty cold. It's still going strong over 10 days later. I'm going to give in and medicate soon,…

Hi All! I'm enjoying some family time this week before school starts next week. That means I'm keeping today's Tuesday's Treasures on the kind of short and sweet side. :) I loved the lines and quality workmanship with this piece.…

One more quick makeover today... my pal Lara went to a yard sale and saw these dressers for sale. She sent them to me in a text to see if I'd like her to pick them up for me. I…

So many people have been asking me how John's hand is doing. Thanks so much for checking! Since more of you read this blog than actually chat with me in a week, I thought you all might like an update.…

Hello Friends!! The 2nd hutch on this week's Tuesday's Treasures is painted Vintage Teal by Valspar and the interior is painted  Lightning Bug by Benjamin Moore. Kelly reached out to me looking for a hutch and I didn't have any on our…

What's a gold dipped piece of furniture?? Well, it's just what is sounds like. A piece of furniture that looks dipped in gold. Dipped furniture is so "in" right now. It doesn't just have to be gold, but I want…

Another Tuesday's Treasures today? What!! We've had so many fun pieces and I am having a hard time narowing everything down to just one piece a week. This cute little cabinet was given to us when we went to buy…

Good morning!! I've been waiting and waiting to do a piece with chicken wire and this hutch was asking for it! Do you see it?? Can you picture it?? No? Well, let me explain it a bit. If you find…

Hi! How has your week been? So many people have asked me how everything has been going with John quitting his job to join  me at FunCycled. Since I don't get as much time as I'd like to to chat…

It's Saturday!! Why am I posting on a Saturday?? Well, I was up early and with having John home I've had time to get more pieces done in a week.  That being said, I have so much to share with…

Has it really been a week since I wrote my last blog post?? I feel like I was just here telling you all about John starting to work with me, I blinked and now I'm back at the computer again.…

It's been quite the week here at the FunCycled home. John's first week working with me was AMAZING. What most people take as normal, I was able to enjoy for the first time. John and I went to bed together…

Hi friends! Can you believe it's the 4th of July this week?? I always feel like the 4th of July is the half way point of the summer. I know it's not really, for most it's the official start of…

Happy Tuesday everyone! This week's makeover is super fun! Very few houses before 1930 had built in kitchen cabinets and free standing cabinets were for the up and up. Many different manufactures made a hoosier style of cabinet but the…

Hi All! I hope you had a wonderful week. I'm sure for most of you, it was filled with graduation parties, father's day celebrations, and yard work. Tis the season around here! Congrats to my little niece Emma for graduating…