Hi Friends!
How’s your week going? We’ve had some changes on the home front over the last few week to hopefully simplify life a bit and give me more time to focus on FunCycled. I’m really excited about those changes and the focus that it allows me to have. I’ll share more about it soon, but today, I wanted to share a recent furniture makeover that was so much fun to do!
I was working with a design client to redo a sitting area in her house. One of the things that sets me apart as a designer is that I always try to curate new designs using items in my clients home that have meaning or significance. I love to repurpose old items into show stoppers if we can and for this client… I think we did just that.
She had wanted a wine bar and as we talked about different ways to make that happen, I asked if she’d be open to repurposing the roll top desk she already owned into a wine bar. I could just picture it right away! This desk has been in their family for years so she really didn’t want to get rid of it. She was game for using it in a new way though. Yay!
Here’s the desk before:
We talked through what they would like the wine bar to have. A fridge, food storage bins, a sink, a cutting area, and a place to store liquor bottles and glasses.
As you’ll see in the next photos, we did the following alterations:
- We took the roll top section and made it the backsplash for the wine bar.
- We took the top of the desk, refinished the top and painted the rest, added wine glass hangers, and attached it to the wall.
- We installed soap stone on the top for an surface area to cut lemons and limes and prepare the drinks
- We installed a copper sink and faucet.
- We installed metal food bins.
- We created a little area in the back for liquor bottles.
- We installed a mini fridge and built a shelf for it to sit on.
- We cut down the top side sections to create more visual interest on the back of the counter section.
- We watched our clients smile big! :)
Ready for the after photos?
Do you like this transformation? We’d love it if you’d tell your friends and family about it. Creating custom pieces that you’ll love for generations to come is kind of our thing!
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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)
