Category: Before and After

Tomorrow is the 4th of July! I hope you all have some fun plans for the day. We are planning to take the kids to the roof top of a parking garage in downtown Albany to watch the fireworks. We…

Hope you all had a great weekend! This week's redesign was a lot of fun! It was one of those project where everything went RIGHT for once. :) Gotta love those! My friend Jo Ann and I went shopping at…

Hello to our new fans and to all those we met at the Troy River Street Festival this past weekend. I hope you had a great time at the festival, I know we did! It was so much fun working…

If you aren't a fan of our Facebook page, you may not know yet that I quit my job. I officially finished last week and I'm nervous, but really excited about having the extra time to devote to FunCycled and…

I've been wanting to do something with a chevron design for what feels like a bazillion years. OK - maybe 4-5 months and here it was, finally - this dresser screamed "give me chevron!". My mom called me because she…

As you know, we've been busy here and I'm not complaining!! I'm loving the custom jobs and new creations! It's just that I haven't had a ton of time to post all of the fun things. I simply MUST make…

We've been busy here redoing a few different end tables. Instead of doing a post about each one, I thought I would show you the before and after of them. To see how we painted each one, visit our post…

This dresser was in really good shape to start with so it made for an easy makeover. To see the steps on how to paint furniture so our post How To Paint Furniture We used Benjamin Moore Low Luster Wood…

Some projects that we work on go quickly, some are tedious and some are just a huge pain in my booty! This dining room table was redone so many times, but it also shows that you shouldn't settle for less…

I liked the shape of this coffee table from the get go and wanted to buy it. John gave me a look in front of the guy selling it like, Are you kidding me! Then smiled and said, "If you like…

This little book case was given to us by a man we met right near our house who was throwing out a dresser. My dad saw it and asked if we could come get it. We started talking to him…

I fell in love with the design of this dresser. I know you can't tell from this picture, but even the handles of the middle drawer are lion heads. I wanted to give this a distressed look. If you want…

Here's the before picture of this monster! It was in pretty rough shape, sitting at the end of the road, waiting to be junked. It was right down the road from our house and John and I were on the…

Hi FunCycled Friends!! Are you stopping by to see how to transform your furniture? We're here to help you repurpose your furniture piece! Since painting has the same steps no matter what the piece, we've created this page to help everyone!…

So, this dining room set was purchased from a man on craigslist who was moving into a smaller house. He and his wife wouldn't have room for this set and their loss was our gain. I believe he told me…

Do you have an old dining room set that you would like to replace? Think about repainting it instead. This is step 1 of 3 in our redesign project - revitalizing an antique maple dining room set. The table is…

So many people don't notice the lighting in a room and settle for the run of the mill brass or silver light, but in this post we'll show you a cheap way to add new life to your room by…

I bought this dresser at the same time as the Grey Dresser with Black Glaze. She had quite a few scratches, but I knew she could become a beauty in no time at all. First, we filled in all the…

This dresser is the heaviest dresser I've carried so far! Holy heaviness batman! It wasn't in bad shape, but it had some scratches and the paint had yellowed (probably from using polyurethane instead of polyacrylic). I wanted to try this idea that…

This was in great shape so it was a quick, easy makeover. Here's a quick overview! Fill the top two handle holes with wood filler so I could make it one knob Lightly sand the whole piece Prime Used the…

This hutch redesign was fun and required some creative thinking. Thankfully, John and I like being creative. We drove almost an hour from home to buy this hutch from a nice family who had so kindly allowed Spiderman to live…

This buffet is actually the first piece of furniture John and I ever worked on together. When we first got married we had VERY little money  so our friends John and Devon gave us this buffet. It was almost that…

My next furniture project came from my dear friend, Lara. When I was a little girl, she was a teenager  who went to the same church as I did. I remember watching her and admiring her joy, beauty, compassion, and love for God.…

This was a really fun coffee table redesign! I wanted to push myself to try something new. We got this at a yard sale two summers ago. Sad, I know, that it sat for so long. Let's get right to…

This is part 2 of our Ladies and Gentleman's dressers. This is the hardest dresser we've done so far, but definitely one of my favorite finished products. Thanks for pushing me to try new things, Macknenzie! This dresser was so…