Hi Friends!

How are you this week? It was an absolutely gorgeous weekend here in upstate Ny and we couldn’t have loved it more! We spent the whole day Saturday working outside on the landscaping and gardening. As I was working on planingt more fruit trees in the soon to be orchard, Josh came up to me and said, “Mom, we’re turning into farmers aren’t we?” “We have a garden, flower gardens, the orchard, and now chickens.” Then he quickly asked if we could get a pig. Slow down son… haha! I don’t talk about our little homestead much, but having space for our own little gardens at this Repurposed Ideas house has been a bonus I didn’t even know I wanted. I’m loving it more and more!! John and Josh have also been building a tree fort! Having to be “stuck” at home with a place like this doesn’t feel like a bad thing most days. Especially on sunny days… So I thought I’d share some of the flowering trees and ferns on our property. I took these pictures on Friday right before a storm; it was such a beautiful calm before the storm.

For this week’s furniture makeover, I’m sharing a hutch makeover that we did as part of an interior design job at the beginning of this year.

Here’s the dining room before and you can see the hutch to the left:

Here’s the design board that we created for the space (inspiration photos and product links):

We painted the hutch with Benjamin Moore Advance Black. Then we lightly distressed it, sprayed it with a protective clear coat, and added new hardware.  

If you want to see how we paint furniture, check out our How to Paint Furniture post.

Here are the after pictures of the hutch:

This hutch was done as a custom order so it’s not available to purchase, but you can check out even more new pieces on our For Sale page:

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  Black Mid Century Dresser Set

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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)

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