Well, here we are, Week 8 of the six-week One Room Challenge. We have made a lot of progress on the front half of our A-frame beach house. As a reminder, here is where we started…
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It’s Week 6 of the One Room Challenge, and as promised in last week’s post, we are not *quite* ready for the final reveal. I am excited to spend some time looking through the completed project posts of my fellow participants, but before I do that, a quick update on our beach A-frame project status:
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It’s Sunday night as I write this post, despite the fact that most participants posted their One Room Challenge week 5 updates on Thursday. Not me, though. I’m sitting on the floor of the A-frame looking at piles of stuff in every direction. Any of you procrastinators out there feel better about what ever it is you haven’t done?
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It’s week 4 of the fall 2020 One Room Challenge and this is going to be a short update. If you need to catch up, check out week 1, week 2, and week 3.
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Welcome to week 3 – aka the halfway point – of the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge. If you are just joining me, you can catch up with the A-frame plans here and here.
Last week, we talked about mood, color, and style. How you want your space to feel is very important. Equally important, however, is functionality. When we look at functionality, we look at how we live in our homes and how we want to live in the particular space in question. Who lives in this room? What do they do there? How can furniture/storage/art placement make it easier to be in the space?
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It’s week 2 of the One Room Challenge. If you are new here, welcome! You can catch up on the project by reading week 1.
One of the things I always ask clients when we begin working together is how they want to feel in the space we are decorating. Of course we also need to work with the existing architectural detail (and sometimes the existing colors or furniture), but the feeling the client is looking for coupled with functionality generally drive the design process.
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Hello there! Is 2020 over yet? Unbelievably, no. But there is some good news: twenty select designers along with a couple hundred bloggers and insta-folks are ready to spend the next six weeks distracting you from reality because the autumn edition of the 2020 One Room Challenge starts now!
For those non-design nerds in the crowd, the One Room Challenge was started forever ago by Linda of Calling It Home to hold herself accountable for finishing her own home decorating project. I’m sure none of you have ever had a room in your house that you started to redecorate (or even remodel) only to find months later that things aren’t quite how you wanted them. Me neither. Anyway, the gist of the challenge is that each participant has six weeks to “finish” their selected room.
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Thank you for your patience as I’ve certainly fallen off the blogging radar over the last little bit. Yes, that “last little bit” would be 10 weeks, but who’s counting? (Hi, Dad.) I’ve started drafting updates on our house several times, only to find myself wondering how to possibly tell the story of the last couple of months. What you want, I suspect, is a finished product. We are conditioned to look for enormous change, to see the train wreck that was the space before a remodel and compare it to the beautifully styled, perfectly lit photo of the new and improved space. This is not that story. This is the story of a real family who remodeled a real house in real time and who is not anywhere near the internet’s idea of “done”. There will be before and after photos, don’t worry. It just might be awhile.
I’ve mentioned all along that this process has been slower than I could ever have imagined. Remember that story I told you months ago about overhearing the couple on the street commenting on how fast a new house had gone up and wondering what could possibly be taking so long for the house to actually be finished? Those people have never remodeled. And they probably shouldn’t. They sure as hell shouldn’t hire the painters that worked on my house.
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