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Week 4 – One Room Challenge – Sofaless livingroom
Welcome back! If you are just joining us for the One Room Challenge, you can check out our plans here. You can also check out Painting Week here. This week was all about the flooring, and since we hired that out, I shopped for new lighting. We have wanted to remove some of our carpet and replace with hardwood for a few years now. However, all of our halls had original hardwood, so we wanted it to be seamless and whenever we looked into it, we did not get a good feeling it would come out as seamless as we had hoped. We finally found a company, Park Place…
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ORC – sofaless living space – Fresh Paint – Week 3
Welcome back! If you are just joining us for the One Room Challenge, you can check out our plans here. This week was painting week for us and unlike when I did the One Room Challenge for my dining room, the paint came out as I planned the first time this time. Luckily with this room, there was no damage to the walls, no peeling tape, and nothing to patch other than a few tiny holes where pictures had been. The paint color choice was also simple this time. When I finished our dining room there was a little issue with the ceiling paint color choice, and since I…
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One Room Challenge – Sofaless living space
Hi everyone and welcome! I’m so excited that you are here and thrilled to be joining the many designers before me to renovate my outdated space into a cozy modern sofaless living room as a guest designer for the One Room Challenge™. I hope you will follow along for the next 7 weeks. I will be posting detailed weekly updates here, as well as daily updates on Instagram and Pinterest. Be sure to follow along! Before we jump right into my living room, which is in serious need of an update, let me introduce myself. I’m Sondra, I earned a degree in Computer Science at Tennessee tech, though blogging is way…
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One Room Challenge – Warm, Cozy Dining Room Reveal
This week we finished the One Room Challenge® for our warm and cozy dining room. Who is ready for the reveal and some before and after photos? I can’t believe we have already arrived at the end of this season’s One Room Challenge®. I had such a fabulous time that I am already planning which room I will renovate for the spring event. I also learned so much from the other designers and I really enjoyed following along with their renovations. If you have followed along with me for the last 6 weeks, thank you so much! If you are a new visitor, welcome and feel free to check out…
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Window Treatments and Wall Decor – Week 5 – ORC
Hi everyone, this week we finally made it to the window treatments and wall decor for our dining room makeover. If you are following along on our One Room Challenge adventure, welcome back. If this is your first time visiting we are so happy you are here and if you would like to catch up you can find everything from our plans of Week 1 to our accessories of Week 4 at the following links. Week 1. Week 2. Week 3. Week 4. Let’s jump right in and get started with the window treatments. I knew I wanted sheers for this room to add some light texture to…
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Rustic Wall Decor with Farmhouse Beads
Hi everyone and welcome back. As promised, today we are going to make a rustic wall hanging using farmhouse beads. For a complete farmhouse bead tutorial, click here. Supplies To make your own rustic wall decor, you will need a wooden word, I chose “Blessed”. You will also need a bead strand and a pompon garland. I found this garland at Michaels. You will also need a rustic window frame like this one: I used a window frame that I bought a few years ago and had been using as decor on our back porch, but I found some similar ones here and here. Preparation You…
