One Room Challenge - Week 1

Hello and welcome!  If you are new here, allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Kimber and I am a Southern girl that lives in Alabama (Roll Tide!).  Last year my world was turned upside down and I was given a big ol' bag of lemons.  So I decided to make lemonade.  This blog is where I share updates to our home affectionately known as #ProjectLemonade, client work, fabulous finds, and frequently occasionally curse.  I enjoy wine, color, music and long walks on the beach.  If that sounds interesting to you, let's go steady for the next six weeks, shall we?  

Why six weeks, you ask?  I will be participating each Thursday in the One Room Challenge Linking Party.  Unfamiliar with the ORC?  Linda, from Calling It Home fame, challenges 20 bloggers to re-do one room in six weeks and report progress each Wednesday.  Be sure to check out the line-up this time.  It is going to be amazing.

Linda also hosts a party for those of us that want to play along from home on Thursdays.  Last ORC I did my bedroom...you can see it here.

This time I decided to tackle my laundry room and hallway.  Brace yourselves for some truly horrific before pictures.

Hoarder much???

Yes, I started painting my office two days before the start of the ORC.  #masochist

Garage door with peeling paint...nice

So here's my plan of attack:

• Rip out the closet in the laundry room because it is truly a waste of space
• Build a long table where I can throw fold clothes
• Add wainscoting 
• New flooring in the laundry room
• Organize & clean
• Hooks for backpacks & other kid stuff in the hallway
• Ditch the boob light (and throat punch the inventor of them)
• And another eleventy billion other things I'm certainly forgetting (including doing the laundry you see piled up everywhere)

I've been through about 75 designs for the space and still haven't truly decided on one yet.  But I think I am leaning toward this.

  

Looks fun, right?  And totally do-able in six weeks?  Be sure to check out the other linking participants and give them some love. And maybe some wine.  Yes, definitely some wine.  

Laundry Room Progress

Hello Lovelies.  In true bad blogger fashion, I have been missing in action for the last two weeks.  Where does time go?

I was a busy bee this weekend and updated our laundry room.  It all started with my mom's bathroom.  How are the two related, you ask?  Well, I'll tell you.  For my mama's birthday (can you tell I'm Southern since I say Mama?), I made her a new shower curtain from Brunschwig & Fils iconic Le Lac.  This, of course, led to other changes in the bathroom (Thank the Lord!) which included new lighting.  We picked out a vintage chandelier before hanging the valance in the room.  When it arrived it did not work in her bathroom, but was *perfect* for my laundry room.  Lemons and lemonade, right?

On Saturday I got to work transforming the little beauty.  My husband thought I was nuts.  What is it about spray painting a chandelier Rustoleum's Safety Red that men don't understand???  Here she is in all her glory.

Isn't she a beauty?  Original "Made in Italy" tag intact.  At this point I was completely smitten.  And then I realized something important.  There were two links of chain left and about twelve inches of wire.  Not nearly enough for our laundry room that has 12' ceilings.   The chain was an easy fix, I just painted some extra that I had on hand from other fixtures I've hung.  The short wire meant I had to re-wire the darn thing.  It's not difficult, just kind of a pain.  So I got busy and about thirty minutes later she was ready to replace the monstrosity that was living in our laundry room.  Want to see?  While we are looking at ugly, I may as well show you how bad the laundry room looked.  Prepare yourself.

In came the ladder and out came that horrible 4' fluorescent light.  I must admit that some very un-ladylike language was muttered while removing it.  It was not heavy, but each end was secured with the World's.  Longest.  Screws.  Imagine me standing on a ladder, holding up the fixture while trying to unscrew this bad boy.  

Yes, that's a quarter next to that screw.  

Two gaping holes and some crumbling plaster?  I'll take that any day and be happy to do the sheetrock repair if it means no more fluorescent.

Are you ready to see the pretties?  After all this whining and ugly, I'm sure you are!  

Brunschwig & Fils Le Lac relaxed roman shade and Les Touches runner

Notice the vintage tissue holder?  It now holds my dryer sheets.  *Genius*

Italian Tole Chandelier

Still a few things I'd like to do in here.  I'll be sure to keep you updated with any progress.  In the meantime, here is a source list:

Runner - Brunschwig & Fils Les Touches available from House of Pemberley

Roman Shade - Brunschwig & Fils Le Lac available from House of Pemberley

Chandelier - Vintage painted Rustoleum Safety Red

Wall Paint - Martha Stewart Bakery Box White

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hope you enjoy the new laundry room as much as I do.  Oh and PS - I actually did do all the laundry in the before photos.  Promise.

*Linked at Thrifty Decor Chick's May Before & After Party*

Best,

Kimber