One Room Challenge - Week #1

Well hello there.  Long time, no chat.  For those of you who don't remember me, my name is Kimber and I used to write a semi-witty, semi-fun blog about my adventures in decorating.  I'm back!  Aren't you thrilled?  And not only am I back, I'm also back just in time to join my third round of the One Room Challenge.  You can view my master bedroom makeover here my laundry room makeover here. 

If you are not familiar with the ORC, it is the brainchild of the ever-chic Linda from Calling it Home.  She challenges you to completely makeover a room in your home in 6 weeks.  This sounds like a lot of time, but let me and the cashier at my local wine retailer tell you, it is not.

For this round, I have chosen to makeover my master bathroom.  As much as I would love to gut this room and start from scratch, that just isn't in the cards right now.  So we will just be putting lipstick on this pig.  Speaking of pigs, I am showing you how my bathroom looks as of today.  Don't judge.  Or judge if you want to, but at least add a "Bless her heart" to it.

The fabulous lighting that I thought was so great way back when...

The glorious bathtub...riveting photo, I know

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse

 

Looking toward the bedroom from the shower

Looking toward the shower and closet from the bedroom

This shower door is the bane of my existence

The vanity...obvs.

We have been back in this house for 3 years now and I have not touched this room.  That is all going to change.  Which brings me to my plan, or as much of a plan as I have been able to come up with.

That's the pretty.  Now let's talk about the elbow grease.

• Come up with a solid plan
• Revise solid plan eleventy billion times
• Paint
• Replace shower door
• Replace faucets
• Antique mirror wall
• Window treatment
• Towel hooks/bars
• Caulk
• Rug
• Laundry hamper
• Lighting
• Question my sanity
• Drink mass amounts of coffee...and wine

Wish me luck!  And be sure to come back next week to see what progress we made.  Check out the other ORC folks here.

One Room Challenge - Week Six

 

Well...I. Did. It.  I feel like I am a freaking Rock Star.  Why?  Because I participated in Linda from Calling It Home's One Room Challenge Linking Event.  What is that, you ask?  It is where each crazy motivated person is given six weeks to completely makeover a room in his/her house.  Sounds simple, right?  Let me tell you, it kicks your ass.  If you would like to see my progress, click to see Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four and Week Five.

 

I know you want to scroll to the pretty after shots (you probably already have), but let me tell you what all I accomplished during these six weeks.

• Demo'd and removed a closet
• Removed builder grade shelving
• Removed and replaced craptastic brown tile where the closet used to be
• Replaced sheetrock where the closet had been
• Sanded, feathered and worked the shit out of said sheetrock...for what felt like years
• Added board & batten moulding in the laundry room
• Added crown moulding in the laundry room
• Continued the wainscoting from the dining room/office into the hallway that leads to the laundry room
• Scraped and repainted garage entry door
• Caulked all the new moulding and filled all the nail holes
• Painted the new moulding in the hallway & laundry room
• Built a table for folding using hairpin legs and butcher block
• Created a shelf and clothes rack
• Styled & photographed the space
• Had the hallway and laundry room wallpapered
• Replaced the light in the hallway with one I found in my front room  and then made pretty

That is quite the list, isn't it?  Do you know what I am most proud of?  The fact that I did every.single.thing. by myself.  Yes, just me.  With the exception of two things...my parents added a few layers of sheetrock mud and I had a professional hang the wallpaper.   Oh and my kids are having a fit reading this post because they "helped".  Lauren helped paint (a little) and they all helped fill some nail holes. 

Now that you have read what all has gone into the room, let's take one last look at the before.

That's some ugly shit, right?  Not anymore, my friends, not anymore.

Thank you so much for following along during these six weeks.  Your constant support was the only thing that kept this tired girl going.  No, really.  And I'd also like to thank my children who have lived on takeout and tv.  Actually, I don't think they minded that too much.

 

Please be sure to check out the other One Room Challenge Linking Participants and the One Room Challenge Participants.

 



One Room Challenge - Week Three

Hello Y'all.  I am sorry I am so late to the party.  I traveled all week for work and then flew on Thursday across the country to visit my sister and nieces and nephews for Easter.  I meant to post yesterday (Linda, I suck, I know...I am so sorry) but I was busy with this girl.

 

Anywhoo, welcome to the One Room Challenge Linking Event.  Unfamiliar with how this challenge works?  You can catch up Week One here and Week Two here. 

 

 

 

So, week three of the challenge has been...challenging.  There are many, many things that I am good at when it comes to home improvement.  Armed with a good attitude and my Master's Degree from Google University, I can pretty much accomplish anything.  Plumbing?  Check.  Electrical?  Done.  Tile work?  Easy.  Mudding sheetrock?  Epic fail.  Seriously, I suck.  Bad. 

Before leaving for Easter break, I knew I needed to remove and replace the tile flooring, hang new sheetrock and prep the walls for their moulding treatment and wallpaper.  Guess how much got done?  Not much. 

The cut tiles from where the walls used to be were removed and coordinating craptastic tile was sourced and purchased.  For the bargain price of $.98 a square foot.  Wonder why it was on closeout?  Uh, maybe because it is ugly?  Yeah, that's definitely why. 

New sheetrock was cut and hung (by yours truly, with many, many, many curse words uttered...just sayin) and I began taping and mudding the seams.  I got about 1/25 of the way done and realized that it just isn't my forte.  I never could ice a cake very well either.  Maybe I should have known.  So...I tearily had to call in reinforcements aka Mom and Dad. They came to the rescue and began working on the seams the day before I had to fly out. 

So as not to leave you with nothing pretty to look at, I promise some progress has been made.  For instance, I have sourced the following.  I will leave it up to you to decide where and how I plan to use it all.

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Benjamin Moore Warm Springs

 

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Be sure to check out how much cooler and further along the other #OneRoomChallenge Linking participants are.  Oh and totally check out the legit One Room Challenge participants.  To say they are amazing is an understatement. 

Until next week.  Hope you have a Happy Easter. 

One Room Challenge - Week #2

Hello and welcome to the second week of the One Room Challenge Linking Event hosted by the ever-fabulous Linda of Calling it Home.  I'm so glad that you agreed to a second date!  If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can catch up here.

So this week was all about demo.  No prettiness happening, just lots of hard work.  I'd like to say that I burned off a bunch of calories demoing the closet in the laundry room, but I quickly replaced what I did burn off with beverages of the adult variety.  Now I totally get why construction workers drink beer!

I started by clearing out the crap that I had stored in there and removing the shelving that was installed by the stupid builder.

Then I got started on demoing the wall.  It was so. much. fun.

 

And after a few hours and the removal of the studs, I have this...

And, just as I feared, there was no tile beneath the closet walls.  So, this week I have been trying to decide if I can find a similar craptastic tile to replace those that are missing/cut or replace the flooring altogether with a laminate wood.  Decisions, decisions.

For the hallway, I am still debating on paint color.  I *finally* finished painting my dining-room-turned-office the raspberry color and I. Love. It.  (sidenote:  did I tell you why I started painting my dining room a few days prior to the start of the ORC?  No, not because I'm insane...Because I am hosting Bunco at my house tonight.  Yes, for that reason alone, I felt compelled to paint.  Wait, maybe I am insane.) 

I have decided to continue the wainscoting from the dining-room-turned-office into that hallway rather than doing a board and batten treatment.  My struggle is whether I should continue the same white (Behr Parchment Paper) or go bold from the moulding down with a turquoise.  This paper is what is going above the moulding in the hallway.

In other hall-related news, I was cleaning out the shithole dumping grounds formal living room, and came across this fixture.  (I mean, who does that?  Who is cleaning a room and comes across a LIGHT FIXTURE and forgot she had?  *see insane declaration above*)

 

It's pretty boring as is, but I have plans to make it amazing.  For sneak peeks follow me on Instagram (houseofpemberley). 

 

Also, be sure to check out all of the other talented linking-up-folks here and the One Room Challenge folks here.