After years of painting kitchen cabinets nearly every week and helping clients navigate full-scale interior refreshes, I’ve learned one universal truth: hardware is the jewelry of the kitchen. It’s the final detail that can make a standard cabinet feel custom…

Hi Friends, How are you? Do you have a traditional kitchen... maybe one that looks like this? It's not ugly, but you're sick of the wood cabinets and lack of backsplash? Or the two tiered height counter? Diane started by…

Hi Friends! This past weekend, John and I celebrated our 18th anniversary. We decided to go back to our honeymoon spot for the first time in 18 years. The beautiful mountains of the Poconos! We stayed at the same inn…

Hi Friends! How are you? I hope you had a nice weekend and were able to take some time to think about the sacrifice so many have made for our freedom. Such a humbling, overwhelming thought. I'm more than grateful…

Hi Friends, How are you? I hope your week is going well! I just wanted to take a quick break this week to show you a new table style we are offering. I absolutely love the legs on this table…

Hi Friends! Say what?!?! Keep the cherry cabinets?? If you know much about us, you know that painting the cabinets are almost always my first go to, but in this case, our design client, Andrea, wanted me to make her…

Hi Friends, We had a sad weekend with the passing of our 13 year old lab, Mel. She was such a sweet girl and we've had her our kids whole life so it's been an adjustment since Saturday. We are…

Hi Friends, Last week, I shared one of my favorite kitchen makeovers fro Jim and Johanna. Check it out here! Today, we're headed one room over to their living room makeover. Here it is before: Living Room Before Built In…

Hi Friends! This kitchen makeover is one of my all time favorites! Jim and Johanna reached out to us about painting their kitchen cabinets in early 2021. When I met them at the house, we talked through design ideas and…

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! How's your week going? Today, I'm sharing a hutch makeover that may be hard to appreciate all the work it took to create this transformation. This hutch was a custom order for Britany. This was originally her partner…

Hi Friends! One little thing you may not know about me is that I'm a pianist. I've been playing the piano since I was 8 years old. I started playing in nursing homes when I was 12, and have been…

Hi Friends! Last week we wrapped up a kitchen makeover that started back in January! In 2 1/2 months our client, Sarah, had her dream kitchen without moving walls or buying new cabinets. First, Sarah started by booking her week…

Hi Friends! How's the start to your week going? It's been a jam pack couple of work weeks here; long days! I'm going to make this short and sweet since I've had about a 13 hour work day so far…

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! I'm a little later in the day posting about this week's Tuesday's Treasures. I'm wearing a few too many hats this week, but no worries! We'll get through this! ;) I wanted to show you a makeover from…

Hi Friends, I'm so excited to share with you the living room makeover at our airbnb. It was a huge change from what we started with. Here it was the day we went to look at the building to buy…

Hi Friends! How was your weekend? I hope everyone enjoyed it! This week, I'm sharing one of my favorite style furniture makeovers. This style takes a certain type of dresser to start with. The dresser needs to have a frame…

Hi Friends! How are you? I hope your weekend went well! We had a nice weekend - more low key than normal but still sweet. We worked on projects at the airbnb and at the house. This week I'm sharing…

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…

Hi Friends! For this week's makeover, I thought I'd step you through what a typical design job looks like for me. I've been really busy with design work and I love it for so many reasons. I love designing and…

Hi Friends, I recently went to Waco, TX to explore all the changes at Magnolia. If you are a big Chip and Jo fan like I am, you've seen the new shops online, the old church they just had rebuilt…

Hi Friends, This Tuesday's Treasures makeover is for my dear friend Christy. She's been wanting her kitchen cabinets painted for a while now and asked for painted cabinets for her Christmas present this year. I love the transformation and love…

Hi Friends, Even though we've been in business for 9 years now, we still get asked if we will paint furniture that our clients own. The answer is yes! We have a professional grade air sprayer and can get a…

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…