Fall 2017 ORC

It's my favorite time of year, otherwise known as the only time I seem to blog, the One Room Challenge. If you don't know what the the One Room Challenge or ORC as it's called is, it's a decorating challenge run by Linda at Calling It Home where 20 designers make over a room in 6 weeks. You can check out the featured designers HERE every Wednesday for the next 5 weeks. Anyone can attempt this crazy challenge and link up on Thursdays like me. Many of the guest participants are very talented designers and I can't wait to follow them for the next six weeks.

Let's get to the room I am going to redo. We recently moved back to Florida from Pittsburgh and are temporarily living in our vacation townhouse while getting settled and starting the process of building a house. I anticipate we will be here for a little less than a year. Many of the areas in this house are set up fine for temporary living, but I want to give the bedrooms some personality since we are living here full time and will eventually sell this place when our new house is finished.

I will be working on my oldest sons bedroom. He has recently graduated high school and will be working full time until next semester when he starts college. For now he is living at home so I want to give him a functional space. He is a typical teen boy! Messy and unorganized. Before I show the appalling pics I snapped this morning, (they are very BAD!) I'll show you his last few bedrooms.

This was my favorite room I ever did for this kid. He was in middle school and loved dogs.

This one we had just bought this house and lived there 2 months before finding out we were moving to Pittsburgh, so this was just a quick staging for real estate photos.

This was the tiniest little room in our 100 year old Tudor in Pittsburgh. there wasn't much room for anything in there because he wanted to keep the queen bed.

I did manage a gallery wall in that little bedroom that I loved.

Now onto today's bedroom. I did not clean up so BEWARE! This is going to be scary.

Well it can't get any worse, so I have no where to go but up. Come back next week for the plan.We have an idea of what we would like this space to be. Trying to decide if we will paint or keep it neutral. Everything in this house is the same color. Since we will be selling in the next year I'm thinking we will be keeping the color and working around it by putting art on the walls. My son has been an avid rower for the past 4 years, so he wants to incorporate that into the design. there will be major cleaning going on this week. Hope to see you here in a week. In the meantime go check out all the other guest participants at Calling It Home.