Spring One Room Challenge - Week Four

Hello and welcome to Week Four of the Spring 2018 One Room Challenge.  If you're unfamiliar with the ORC, it is an event spearheaded by Linda from Calling It Home where 20 Featured Designers and hundreds of Guest Participants, like myself, attempt to completely redo a room in six weeks.

For this ORC, my fifth, I am turning my parents man-cave bonus room into a light and airy TV room...or attempting to at least.  What's new, you ask?  Well, this week was all about caulking, painting, and the search for two flush mount light fixtures to replace the boob lights.

Let me give you a little insight to my Mama.  She is a wonderful woman who lives a very comfortable life.  She and Daddy retired last year and she has since put them on a "budget".  When she tells Daddy that he has a budget for fishing and beer that he must adhere to, he just laughs.  She, on the other hand, takes it VERY seriously, so much so that she started to use the cotton from the medicine bottles for her eye makeup removal...wait, what?  Completely unnecessary.  She's like one of those cheap millionaires that wait on hold two hours with the internet company because she was overcharged by $0.11.

Fast forward to the ORC and me sourcing two flush mount lights.  I sent her a few respectable options that were not too terrible looking and were somewhat easy on the wallet.

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That was the beginning of #Lightgate2018.  She could not believe that we wouldn't find something fashionable for $25 regardless of how much I tried to remind her that It. Is. Not. 1942.  This went on for over a week.  Finally, I decided to be smart and sat her down with the laptop and a large glass of wine and went to the one place I knew I could find discount lighting...Walmart.com.  Two glasses of wine and twenty-five excruciating pages later, she was a converted woman.  We ultimately decided to order these beauties from West Elm.

Crisis Averted

If you follow me on Instagram you likely saw the paint progress that we made.  The room is SO much lighter and I am thrilled with how it is turning out.

Funny story....as we were painting, Mama asked me, "With the board and batten being Antique White and the grasscloth on the ceiling, do you think it will be too much?"  I about wet my pants as I laughingly replied, "You have black walls that are sponge painted with silver and you are worried about THIS being too much?"

Now you understand why this is called the One Room Challenge.  See you next week.