Category: FunCycled News

Hi Friends, We have exciting news! We want to personally invite y'all to join us for Fall Tours of our Repurposed Idea House. We will talk you through the history of our home, give you a tour of the projects…

Hi Friends! Hope you're having a great week so far! I know, I know, it's only Tuesday, but still! :) We are giddy happy over here because we just finished the makeover of our master bathroom. This bathroom technically worked…

Hi Friends! How's your week going so far? If you read my blog post last week about the recap of our year, you've already seen a quick glimpse of this makeover, but I wanted to share more details of it…

Hi Friends! How are you? I hope you are all doing well! I wanted to share some recap moments from FunCycled in 2021. It was quite a year! First, let's talk about how we just hit 10 years in business…

Hi Friends! Happy Earth Week!! Here at FunCycled, we love celebrating all things repurposed, reused, and recycled. If you've followed our story for long, you know we've been encouraging people from the Capital District and abroad to repurpose ANYthing. Then…

Hi Friends! I'm so excited to share another new project at our Repurposed Idea House. Our 2nd staircase was needing some pizzaz so when PhotoWall reached out to me to see if they could donate wallpaper in exchange for us…

Hi Friends! BIG NEWS! In honor of Earth Day in April, we're calling on all our awesome FunCyclers to join the repurposing movement and get a chance to win free things! It's winter in upstate, with not much to do…

We all made it through 2020! I've been reading highlights of 2020 from my friends on Facebook and Instagram. Even though this year has felt hard in so many ways, reading the joys has been so beautiful. I thought I…

Hi Friends, Thank you so much to everyone who came out to celebrate the opening of our storefront over the weekend!! What a fun couple of days this has been!! A huge thanks to each of you who were part…

Hi Friends! We have a week of big announcements for you! We’ve teamed up with two other local woman-owned businesses to take the guesswork out of the holidays… and it just so happens that these incredible creators are family! My…

Hi Friends, How are you? I hope you're doing well! Want to know a little trick for getting all those little projects around your house done? Just have your local newspaper ask to feature your house! That's what happened to…

Hi Friends!  How are you? Today, I want to talk to you about furniture. Not politic or COVID or anything else... just pretty furniture. This week's furniture makeover was for my dear friend Christy. Right at the beginning of COVID,…

Hi Friends, I'm so excited to share the full sized bedroom remodel that we did for our Urban Industrial Airbnb! Let's take a look at the room before we started working on it! I wanted the headboard wall to be…

Hi Friends! Who doesn't love a beautiful bedroom when you go somewhere to escape normal life for a bit! Today, I'm sharing the master bedroom makeover in the airbnb. If you’re looking for a place get away and relax; book…

Hi Friends! Our FunCycled Stays Airbnb in Troy is available now! If you'd like to book your stay, you can book it here! This urban home is nestled on the front side of Prospect Park on upper Congress Street in…

Hi Friends! I hope you all enjoyed the weekend and have had a good start to the new week. We spent almost every free moment working on the new FunCycled Stays airbnb last week. We are pushing hard to finish…

Hi Friends! If you missed it, last week we announced that we purchased a building where we'll be moving our FunCycled storefront at the end of the summer or early fall. We're also planning to make the two bedroom apartment…

Hi Friends! How are you doing? We have some exciting news! Last fall, John and I looked at a building that we had actually looked at years ago. We loved it then, but it needed a lot of work... more…

Hi Friends! How are you all doing? No really... How are you? I ask that because I would love for you to comment below and let me know. We are based in upstate NY and our state has been heavily…

Hi Friends!! Yesterday, I turned 36! I don't need any big parties, but I do love to celebrate the whole month long. Not because I think I’m worth it, but because I have so much to be grateful for. My…

Hi Friends! I'm so excited to share this makeover with you. I absolutely love redoing tiny spaces and our half bath was one of those spaces in our Repurposed Idea House. I love that you can splurge a bit and…

Hi Friends!! As you may already know, we bought this old, beautiful home in December of 2018. FunCycled's Repurposed Idea House Every. single. room needs lots and lots of work. Some call us crazy, some call us brilliant, and to…

Hi Friends! As you know, I just got back from a trip to Waco, TX! Some people have asked me why I went or what there is to do in Waco. It's the town where Chip and Joanna Gaines have…

Ok, before we start talking about a kitchen makeover, I have to share with you a funny video we created about how much I want to meet Joanna Gaines when I go to Waco in May! If you could take…

Today at lunch, I'm leading a discussion on Embracing Failure: Taking risks and learning from mistakes for the Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce Wonder Women Mentoring Luncheon. I thought I'd share a little bit about of that talk with you…