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Going bold in the Art Deco gym
For the gym aspect of the room, I felt like our usual palette of moody jewel tones might not be the energetic pop I was looking for. It felt like a good opportunity to try something a bit out of our comfort zone with color. I was thinking of something warm and soft, a muted…
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The design plan for a home gym that fits our style
I’m so excited to be a guest participant in the Fall 2022 One Room Challenge! In this Week 1 post, I talk about the design of our Art Deco home gym/guest room and give a quick overview of our progress so far!
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A Halloween dinner party menu to die for
It’s that time of year again – time to get your party gear on and plan a culinarily creepy Halloween dinner! From scrumptious starters to delicious desserts, we’ve got everything you need to throw a ghoulishly good bash! So get the grocery list and invitations started – these 7 mouth-watering Halloween dinner ideas are sure…
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Modern mauve laundry room
To follow along with more participants in the Fall 2021 Challenge and see their final reveals, take a visit to the ORC Blog. Eight weeks in, I’m not sure if I’m more proud of myself for keeping up with the blogging or for getting this room as complete as it is! I learned so much,…
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Bringing in metallic elements
To follow along with more participants in the Fall 2021 Challenge, take a visit to the ORC Blog. With only one week to go in the One Room Challenge, we definitely had lot of small things to tackle this week. There aren’t a lot of progress shots because it was more styling and hanging things…
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Creating a faux backsplash
To follow along with more participants in the Fall 2021 Challenge, take a visit to the ORC Blog. With the countertop in place and the cabinet frames painted, we could make some design decisions about the backsplash for the laundry room. Much like the countertop, we need the backsplash to be removable so we can…
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Measure nine times, cut once
To follow along with more participants in the Fall 2021 Challenge, take a visit to the ORC Blog. After a tough week of challenges last week, I am so glad that this week we were able to get the counter in place! We also made a lot of progress on filling in the grain on…
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A week of hurdles
To follow along with more participants in the Fall 2021 Challenge, take a visit to the ORC Blog. This may be one of my shorter updates for the One Room Challenge this session. Work went a lot longer than usual and left me pretty wiped out at the end of each day, and we ran…
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Cabinets, inside and out
To follow along with more participants in the Fall 2021 Challenge, take a visit to the ORC Blog. This week’s work in the laundry room was a pretty big leap! When I was doing the initial designs for this room, I felt like painting the cabinets was going to be one of the biggest impacts…
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Cleaning up the cords
To follow along with more participants in the Fall 2021 Challenge, take a visit to the ORC Blog. When I was redesigning the layout of the laundry room, I knew I wanted to move all the cleaning supplies to the right wall. That way they would still be accessible but the main view when you…