Fall 2017 ORC - WEEK 2

It's week 2 of the One Room Challenge and I finally have a plan. You can read all about the ORC and week 1 HERE. Here is a mood board I created so my son could have an idea of what I was thinking. I have his approval so it's time to forge ahead.

 The room is not very large and my son asked for a desk. Between the bed and the desk, there's not room for much else.
I have started buying a few things. The headboard and bedding are on their way. I ordered an engineering print from Parabo.press of my son and his rowing partner winning a silver medal at Youth National Midwest Rowing Championships. This race was the highlight of his high school rowing career, so I wanted to commemorate it on a grand scale.

The prints are $20 each, but I had a coupon for $10 off. I have a code for for you to receive $10 off your print as well if you want to give them a try.

WDZJJN

The plans for the next week are as follows:

#1- I have decided to paint the room. You'll have to come back next week to see the color.

#2- Start the custom window treatment I am making for the 2 windows. I'm thinking cornices, but I haven't finalized the decision.

Please come back next week for WEEK 3. Oh my, that's the half way point and I feel like I'm just beginning. EEK!!

In the meantime go check out all the talent over at Calling It Home. 

Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate everyone that takes the time to check in. 

Friday Favorites

Two blog posts in a row? Don't know what to do with myself. Today I'm linking up with Erica for Friday Favorites. 

#1

These Publix Chicken Tenders from the deli

When my husband is out of town and I don't feel like cooking, well let's be honest I never feel like cooking (ha!), I grab these and my kids love them. I like to cut them up in a salad. They are delicious. You need to try them.

#2

In yesterdays post I talked all about the One Room Challenge. You can go read about it HERE. It really is my favorite blogging event. I love following along with people as they design and decorate a room. I enjoy seeing the creative process from other people's point of view. Go check it out. You might get inspired to redo a room in your house.

#3

I recently started drinking coffee. All these years I've been a Diet Pepsi drinker and have finally kicked the diet soda habit! Now I drink a cup of coffee in the morning and I am loving this brew.

#4

So happy this is back on TV! If you don't watch this you are missing out. I laugh and cry in every episode.

#5

My highlight of every week is my Monday night Ladies' Bible Study. I love doing life with these precious ladies. We are doing a study on the book of James right now. Here is our verse for the 12 week study.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 

James 1:22 ESV

Have a great weekend!

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.