Hi Friends!
How’s your week going? I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I wanted to share the kitchen remodel at our #funcycledstays airbnb. Here’s what we started with – basically an empty room that needed a lot of love.
The first thing we did was rip up the subfloor to find hardwood floors underneath. I forgot to take a picture of the kitchen with the subfloors. Here’s where you can see what we ripped up.
Finding the wood floors was such a nice surprise! It gave the room a lot of character and we were able to repurpose something old instead of buying something new.
A nice part about the kitchen was that it had all the plumbing and electrical in place so we didn’t have to do anything like that, but it had nothing else.
We had some cabinets from the first floor of the new building and also took cabinets that were going to be trashed from a kitchen job that we redid. So we took them and painted them Newburgh Green by Benjamin Moore. Colorize in Clifton Park offered to let us try their new paint product called Gemini EVO. It’s a water based lacquer for kitchen cabinet painting. I’ve heard great things about it, but wanted to wait for a project for ourselves before we tested it out. I wanted to see how it sprayed and check the durability before I offered it to our clients. We use an air sprayer for the doors and drawers and brush the boxes. Both applications of this product worked really well. It went through the sprayer without thinning it out and it rolled onto the cabinets without showing brush marks. We loved using it and will now be offering this option for our clients for an upcharge (because it costs about double what normal cabinet paint does). We also waited and did a scratch test and it adhered really well to the cabinets. Thanks to Colorize for keeping us up to date on all the new products and for providing stellar customer service.
We installed IKEA faux concrete counters. The light above the island wasn’t in a good spot so instead of moving all the electric, we built a box and installed two island lights from Ikea. Then we installed subway tile and black grout.
We removed the baseboard that was 10″ tall in the master bedroom. Why would anyone install that big of a baseboard?
Then we repurposed the wood from the baseboard to create exposed shelves in the kitchen.
We took an old white dishwasher and spray painted it black! It still worked great, so, why not? Thanks for the dishwasher, Christine!
The island was a buffet from FunCycled where we extended the top to make it a place for people to sit an eat. We purchased the bar stools on Facebook marketplace.
Installing barn board to the soffits gave it visual interest and charm.
This teal lotus ceiling light above the sink is yummy! I love it!
We are so happy with how this little space took shape into a one of a kind place for people to stay, enjoy cooking together, and make family memories for years to come!
It would mean so much if you would share this link with any friend you think might be interested. You can book your stay on Airbnb’s website today!
We loved being able to do all the design for this space. We focused on using as much repurposed items we could for accents and furniture throughout the space! Making it green, beautiful, and one of a kind for your home away from home stay.
If you’d like me to help you with design in your home (can be done virtually to help anyone in the US) or if you see anything in the photos you’d like in your home locally, let me know. We made most of the signs ourselves and build many of the furniture items throughout the space.
Thanks for being the best funcycler’s around!
Sarah Trop
