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What a Wonderful Ride. One Room Challenge – Week 6 – The Reveal! This is Where We Began…The Puppet Master And Now…6 Weeks Later…A Master Bedroom for Grown Ups. Grown Up By Day. A Dazzling Night on the Town by Night. The Candlelight Glow is Intoxicating. Here’s a Quick Before and After. And Now All …
One Room Challenge. Week 5. A Conversation Overheard in the Master Bedroom… Hey Muntin. Hi Lite. Did You Hear, One More Week for the One Room Challenge? Yeah….Of Course We’re Left for Last. Sure…We’re Old. 85 Years. Originals. I Thought When the New Windows Were Put In, We’d Be Thrown to the Curb. But Here We …
One Room Challenge – Week 4. Two Weeks to the Final Reveal! Here’s the Master Bedroom Before…With the Puppets. Unbelievably, All the New Pieces to the Master Bedroom are Coming Together. For My “If Henry VIII had a Nun Living in the Palace This Would Be Her Bed Chambers” Room. What??? I Know You Get …
Week 3 of the One Room Challenge. It’s Now or Never for Paint. It’s been a while since we last painted. Last time we got Charlottesville painters to do the whole house. But there’s only one room to do this time so I can make do with what I’ve got. Shed paint. Paint that’s been …
One Room Challenge – Week Two. But Hold Up…An Inspiration Change. A Do Over. I assumed my Inspiration would be a Family Inheritance 150 Year Old Painting. Lovely. But Truth Be Told – The Family Painting is One that I would have walked right past in a Gallery. Whoops…did I really just Say That??? Yes I Did. So that’s been …
One Room Challenge, Fall 2016 The Before Shots. The Questions. The Issues. I am So Excited to be a Guest Participant of the One Room Challenge. A Huge Thank You to Linda of Calling It Home for Making This Happen. The Task…One Room and 6 Weeks to Create a Wondrous Transformation. Week One. The Room Choice for …
What a Ride! What a Rush! What Fun! For Your Viewing Pleasure…My One Room Challenge Reveal. The Funky Bathroom. Before. Light Blue Walls. White Trim. Plumbing Pipe Fixtures. Wood Floor. Hanging Mermaids. During the 5 Week Transformation. Hello Beautiful! The Shutterfly Large-Print Format Wrapped Canvas Photo is Perfect for the Space. No dangerous Glass for …
Computer Issues have sidelined me a bit…Missed my Week 5 Update Without Further Ado…Week 5 I’ve lived with the new Dark Gray Paint for 4 Weeks. Hmmm…Only OK Loving It. Maybe Decorator’s Remorse. I Guess that is a Thing. The Troops like it. That’s always Good. I’m banking on my Artwork to Pull this Design Together and …
The Funky Bathroom has Gone to the Dark Side. Week 4 of the One Room Challenge. Dark is Bold. But Dark also fosters an Oh-No-What-Have-I-Done(?) Moment. I’m Getting There and Learning to Embrace the Stark Contrast of Dark and White. It’s All Fabulous! The bathroom is teetering on being Cave-Like, but Not. Clean, Fresh, Fun. …
The Funky Bathroom Transformation – Setbacks and Accomplishments. One Room Challenge! Week 3 – Half Way there! A Setback with Color Selection…my Gray is Too Light. No contrast. My local Sherwin Williams has a wonderful Color Expert and we talked through the choices. I am very pleased with the new direction: Snowbound (for trim) and …