#OneRoomChallenge

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Week 6 and time for the big reveal. This Breakfast Nook transformation will make you want to have breakfast all day, every day

[urvintagegurl]

Guest Bathroom Makeover

[correosfilipinas]

Add a touch of elegance to your living space with a rental approved faux fireplace facade. Perfect for those looking for a temporary upgrade.

[huffpostcomedy]

Experience the elegance of a French-inspired home office as we unveil the stunning results of our One Room Challenge makeover - Prepare to be inspired.

[mal-educado]

French Country Dining Room - Kitchen Dining

Example of a small french country light wood floor and beige floor kitchen/dining room combo design with beige walls

[styledsimplyhome]

Fall ORC | Week 1

I’m diving right back in again for my second One Room Challenge! This time I’ll be continuing down the hall, through the “mud room” and down the stairs to the playroom.

After (almost) finishing the downstairs guest bathroom, I have the itch. If you give a mouse a cookie, she’ll just want another (project)!

The Spring One Room Challenge was definitely not easy. There were many pain points, mistakes, and “discussions” with my family on how the bathroom renovation was an inconvenience. And I agreed, but in the end I feel more fulfilled because I challenged myself. I found a creative outlet and a supportive community that filled the hole I was feeling post leaving my NYC design career. Now as a stay at home mom of three crazy adorable monkeys, I have found balance through DIY - it’s the flexible outlet I’ve been searching for.

Spring One Room Challenge here I come!

DESIGN PLAN

Remove door to scrape, paint, and refurbish vintage hardware

Demo the awkward ceiling partition

Move light fixture wiring to center of hallway and replace with new vintage fixture

Add board and batten to accent wall

Drywall and patch to seamlessly connect hallway to stairwell

Prime and paint

Style gallery wall

Reveal before & after

[orientaltribe]

Vintage ethnic textile decorative throw pillow cover. https://orientaltribe11.etsy.com ::: 💵 accept paypal ::: ✈️ Shipping worldwide #midcenturyfurniture #oneroomchallenge #interiorinspiration #cottagestyle #livingect #cementtile #scandinavianhome #minimalistdesign #whitehome #nordicdesign #architecturedaily #iarchitectures #instarender #africanprint #fashionforchurch #mywestelm #interiør #interiör #moroccanrugs #tribal #gipsy #bohostyle #boho #homewares #interiores #casa #apartmenttherapy #sodomino #orientaltribe11 #cushion @etsy (at Santa Monica Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcpUQpBva8N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[arqteturas]

A linda transformação de um banheiro em um lavabo. Susan e Will toparam essa renovação para participar do One Room Challenger, edição 2018. Foram seis semanas de correria para que tudo ficasse pronto. A última imagem é do "antes". Toda a inspiração é retrô, a vedete do ambiente pra mim foi o garimpo desse armário que fica na entrada. No site do casal tem todo o passo a passo e materiais utilizados. Desliza pra ver os detalhes. . Projeto, reportagem e fotos @houseofbrinson . #tocador #lavabo #powderroom #wallpaperideas #wallpaperdecor #avantrevivalists #howiseeluxury #houseofbrinson #oneroomchallenge (em Hudson Valley, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP_yloJDm5E/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ggemdesignco]

ONE ROOM CHALLENGE WEEK 5- Ggem Design Studio

Oooooooo this weird week is getting less weird thank goodness.

Oh Halloween! I think most of you know I’m in the Los Angeles area and Southern California is suffering two severe wildfires at this time. Not very near us. There were a lot of fires all over California and and extreme red flag warning. The winds have calmed and we are going to see humidity rise, but I must admit, I lost an entire day of ORC work to low grade anxiety around the weather. My thoughts are with those affected.  

After the #woolseyfire disaster of last year, my community is in recovery mode, and that whole experience gave me a lot of clarity along with some fire prep skills. So if there’s fire nearby, that’s what I am doing. I did a lot of that this week, here’s one of the fire maps from last week... schools were closed. Traffic was weird and Andrew and I called in to most meetings. 

and here’s a shot of the previously mentioned fire meeting from last week. 

But luckily, Cindy! Cindy works for Ggem Design Co (@GgemDesign on Insta) and she is down for whatever fun thing we’ve got going. She took ownership of the chair restoration project! Last week we got fancy casters on it, so I can roll around. 

Friends, you remember my sad, sad chair, right? Cindy thinks it’s green in the “before” phase, I don’t see green but whatevs. It looked gross.

And please recall that I though I love that vintage Baker Chair (and basically all other old leather wing chairs and club chairs), and I left it outside and then tried to restore it with a garden home and a scrub brush. Hot tip: don’t do that.  But Cindy did MUCH better....

I picked up these fancy products from fine specialty store for fine leather care, CVS. Just kidding, it’s just regular plain old CVS. Now I will get random shoe care coupons for the rest of my natural born life, because they track your purchases, but it was probably worth it! 

BECAUSE she fixed it! It’s a little streaky here but it gets better! Note the charred shelf above her! Oh and we got casters on that chair and I love it so much!!!

The wall was needing something, so I got some peel and stick wallpaper... Here it is upside down. Compelling photo of white paper, basically, I know. But you CAN see my new/old bookends. I HEART those! From the thrift store!

OK! Here’s big star 1. I need to make maybe 7, but have only done 2. I need to have finished photography by Wed. Ummmm.... But OK!

And dang gummit (is that how you say that?) I’m making some giant stars. Tomorrow, Sunday, basically all days until Wed. It takes hours but it’s gonna be that good kind of weird, I know it! 

Here’s a shot of some of the rest of this weeks projects (Because I think you know I’m a professional #interiordesigner in the #Malibu area), this is the 2nd to last install at this fabulous beach house. It was a remodel and full furnish, and exactly our sweet spot kind of job! See more and more of our projects at the main site, ShannonGgem.com.

And here’s some fire prep, and the reboot of the patio at the end of the red flag conditions.

Empty patio (dry skin in 4% humidity, 2 friends who sell skin care reached out when I posted this on insta Hahahaaaaa. Follow me there for all sorts of shenanigans. I am a chronic feed-cleaner so things go up and get archived and you may never see this dry skin again)!   Then reboot deck...

Ok, go check out more #oneroomchallenge #bhgorc rooms! People are AMAZING, talented, organized, not making (good kind of weird) peel and stick stars, and it’s super fun and inspiring! 

Yay! 

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Paneling Bedroom

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French Country Dining Room - Kitchen Dining

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Revamping a room doesn’t have to be costly or time-consuming, find out how: https://bit.ly/3DLOxND

This festive season we present you inexpensive ways to freshen up your room décor. Make your space feel softer and warmer where you can sit and relax. 🎐 ⛲

[christinekohutinteriors]

Here’s a throwback to the time I took an iPhone pic of this bathroom I did in NJ (one of 3 in 6 weeks!!) with the half empty roll of toilet paper. 😑 #CKdesignninja #oneroomchallenge #projectgetclean #crappyiphonepicsaremyjam (at North Hampton, New Hampshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChaD7xJunWj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[orientaltribe]

12x36 inches, Vintage ethnic  textile decorative throw pillow cover. https://orientaltribe11.etsy.com www.orientaltribe.com . ::: 💵 accept paypal ::: ✈️ Free shipping worldwide  #midcenturyfurniture #oneroomchallenge #interiorinspiration #cottagestyle #livingect #cementtile #scandinavianhome #minimalistdesign #whitehome #nordicdesign #architecturedaily #iarchitectures #instarender #africanprint #fashionforchurch #mywestelm #interiør #interiör #moroccanrugs #tribal #gipsy #bohostyle #boho #homewares #interiores #casa #apartmenttherapy #sodomino #orientaltribe11 #cushion @etsy (at Upper West Manhattan, NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGPGpqJAQvb/?igshid=2cmb9gf8j7kg

[ggemdesignco]

ONE ROOM CHALLENGE week 4

The One Week Challenge is a widely anticipated biannual design event, challenging participants to complete a project and weekly blog posts in just 6 weeks. The event is media partnered with Better Homes and Gardens, and I am a guest participant!  

Whoa! So many changes and time obligations, and it’s just sort of wonderful that I HAVE to get this post in, or else I’d procrastinate! I went to High Point, North Carolina (furniture capitol of the world). For 8 whole nights! I saw so many respected colleagues and SUCH incredible product, I did an install for @aldenparkes #showhouseinashowroom. Scroll down for a photo of that fancy business and more info on it. LOVED IT! We had a town hall meeting in my community that I chaired 1 hour after I returned home. We have red flag conditions here at Malibou Lake, there are fires everywhere but not within 25 miles. We are not in harms way. I ache for those who are. I evacuated everyone from a jobsite because of a fire in Malibu yesterday (it was close but put out quickly), I have performed home hardening efforts several days this week, attended a Woolsey Fire Draft incident report feedback meeting and spoke on a topic that makes my voice shake in front of 100s- I used my meditation methods, and my voice did not shake! Many things happened this week.   Ok back to the One Room Challenge

The aforementioned studio -mate, an incredible visual artist, once mentioned to me the need for an enormous table. So I got one as a desk. It’s truly enormous, and fits the glorious Baker Wing chair with newly installed CASTERS! Wheeeee! They look like clear roller blade wheels and I love them!

I wanted something pre patina-ed and fairly chunky and boy did I get that. And more! It’s got a double pedestal base and claw and ball feet and it is incredibly heavy pine with a nice patina. It was a wedding gift to the craigs-lister and he loved it but now they are just ready for something different. I told him he could buy it back if he needed to, in a few years. 

I really want the painter I share the space with to feel completely free to use the whole table when he’s there and I’m not (we haven’t seen each other in years- it’s a perfect share, we keep different hours), so I found a ginormous, partially burnt in the Woolsey Fire piece of the wall of our home that burned and needed replacing. A wall board, 1″ x 12″. It’s 1924 redwood. It’s bowed and cupped and charred from the fire, but it’ll be a perfect place to get everything above head height and create a table space I can totally wipe clean. I was so excited to come upon it during home hardening (which I’m doing as a way to work with the energy fires create in me, and also because it’s proactive and needed). 

My husband and I never say no to helping each other, so when I dropped this into his schedule, he gracefully accepted. He brought fantastic carpenter help! He’s a general contractor, (he came to it from carpentry) and a brilliant problem solver and the best life choice I ever made. We have so much fun. He’s the only carpenter ever who would agree to hang this silly warped and burned board. But it’s ours, from something we went through that made us super strong and it’s really the only board that’s an option. 

He’s the one in the middle. 

So this is happening, The shelf is up.  I have key materials on it it needs better styling. The green performance fabrics I recommend on hangers in the corner, my mohair samples are on the shelf, an antique hat box with my preferred cushion/ pillow filling- all for clients to touch and feel to understand the construction of the pieces I have made for their magical homes.  The table is in. I am so hoping the painter uses it! I wrote to him. 

I happen to love my puffy insulation loft ceiling as is, I thought of adding white wire grids to show some handblown lighting I sell, but I think I’ll use existing infrastructure instead. The swing couldn’t work! It would be very much in the painter’s way with the beam layout- so I canned it.  Jury is out if my carpenter will get to the small door and the moulding- I began the challenge without a pre plan, I would have needed to book more than 6 weeks ago if I wanted in to his schedule for real. But he is going to try!  I think, for function, that I need some shelves on the side wall, and an assistant’s chair. My awesome assistant doesn’t do much sitting- so I need to chat with her about what she wants. The amazing art deco ottomans are horsehair, organic cotton and the heaviest wood ever but the leather is SO damaged, I am afraid I need to let them go- they are so damaged you guys!  The walls need something. I told the painter he can have all the hanging space- but we’ll see what he says. I also am feeling like a rug may be in order? To ground the feeling in there- sometimes because of the vaulted ceiling I can feel untethered in there, A darker rug may settle that down.  And I’ll get that star in there- that is happening!  That’s it for my week 4 update, here’s the super before/before and this week’s progress! 

Ok, gotta figure out the rest and get GOING! Omg this is a very effective design event. And below here’s the Showroom in Showhouse space I designed for High Point Market. And I’m standing with Jackie Von Tobel the creator of that awesome custom mural created for the space. Look at that gorgeous bedding by www.Wildcatterritory.com! Gorgeous lighting by www.wildwoodlamps.com, fabulous book sets by www.juniperbooks.com, and ALL the china, crystal and silver by www.replacements.com and furniture by www.adenparkes.com! 

See you next week! Hopefully I’ll have a couple other blog posts from High Point this week, so stay tuned here! 

[caseworkpdx]

For those of you who know me, know I bought my house over a year ago and have been slowly chipping away at it. Paint, lighting, furniture, a fence and over the weekend, I demo’ed MY ONE AND ONLY BATHROOM, all for the @OneRoomChallenge! Down to the studs. It’s gutted! Yesterday the bathtub was swapped, shower valves were installed and we threw up some plastic so I can still shower. We have progress! I wrote an entire blog post about my plans, including all of my selections which you can read from the link in my profile. I’ll be sharing all of the costs associated (full transparency) how I planned a budget from generic to specific and timeline for the project. It has to be complete in 6 weeks, which I’d go crazy if it went on any longer but holy h$ll, six weeks is going to happen fast. Check back each week on Wednesday for the update and follow along in my stories to see all of the gritty behind the scenes details! Be sure to check out the other 19 creatives out there doing this challenge with me! Especially if you’re thinking of tackling your own remodel. Use us as a resource, let us know what you need answered! We’ll do our best! Art by @francesca_scp from @minted @athomewithashley @casavilora @thefarmhouseproject @homemadebycarmona @houseoffunkdesign @houseofjadeinteriors @housesevendesign @houselarsbuilt @imjessicabrigham @inspiredbycharm @janabekdesign @kellygolightly @murphydeesign @thepinkpagoda @sarahgunnstyle @sarahmdorseydesigns @sherryhdesigns @sugarandcloth @vintagerevivals @betterhomesandgardens @oneroomchallenge #oneroomchallenge #BHGORC • • • • • • • #CKRANCHALOW #CASEWORKIT #interior#interiors #interiordesign#interiorarchitecture #homedecor #decor#homedesign #remodel #interiorlovers#neutralhome (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvzhgLJAHPf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=juejl9pp9zcg