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One Room Challenge – Week 6 {The Reveal}

It’s the long-awaited day of the One Room Challenge reveal.

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A big thank you to Linda at Calling it Home for hosting this event!

To see my previous ORC posts go here, here, here, here and here.

Let’s get started by showing you where we began:

It was a room that served many purposes — an exercise space, craft storage and blogging/homework area.   (more…)

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One Room Challenge – Week 5

The finish line for the One Room Challenge is one week away and the room is really starting to come together.

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(To see the first four posts go here, here, here and here.)

This was a busy week in the room – here’s what we accomplished:

  • Walls painted
  • Carpet installed
  • Old table transformed
  • Media shelves arrived and assembled 
  • Stereo components arrived but mostly still in boxes
  • Couch moved in to the room

For those of you who are new here, here’s the original plan for the room:  

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One Room Challenge – Week 4

Participating in the One Room Challenge has no doubt kept me on task.  But, when I think about posting each week to keep you all updated on my progress, the work I’ve done seems kind of boring.  However, plodding along through some of the boring stuff is necessary to get to the good stuff.  

This past week, I finished going through some of the things that were stored in the room, I sold the desks and shelves on Craig’s list, I took things off the walls, and chose a paint color.  

I also ordered the carpet, scheduled the install for this coming Monday, and — here’s the fun part — I bought some of the decor for the room.  

The pillows I wanted from Target were on sale (woo hoo!) and so were some baskets for storing things.  I bought a new curtain rod and some stuff for creating a collage wall.  

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One Room Challenge Week 3

It’s Week 3 of the One Room Challenge and there’s not a lot of visual progress to show you in our spare room, however, that doesn’t mean things aren’t getting done.

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One big decision we made this week was flooring.  

We decided to go with a low-pile carpet in a chocolate brown with a small square pattern.   We feel carpeting is a good choice here because my husband plans to listen to a lot of music in this room and a hard surface wouldn’t offer the right acoustics.

The second big decision I’m still contemplating is the wall color. (more…)

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Pinning and Future Projects

It seems like every January I find myself surfing the Internet and pinning things I love more than usual. 

You see, in January I am 1) at the start of a new budget year and 2) with the hulabaloo of the holidays behind me, I can get focused on my bigger projects around the house.   This leads to lots of inspiration searching and pinning on Pinterest.

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I have two big projects that I want to accomplish this spring.   (more…)

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