Wow! It’s time for the Spring One Room Challenge and this time we are tackling a makeover of a tiny patio…and I use the term patio loosely right now…it’s currently more of an abandoned wasteland. Here is the current sad state of affairs and our wishlist for the project. Honestly, there’s nowhere to go but up!
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How to Create a Magnetic Feature Wall
A focal point in a room is one of the basic elements of a well designed space, and the easiest way to create a focal point is with a feature wall. But what if your feature wall could be not only a beautiful focal point, but hard working too?
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Decorating with plants
Every room could be improved with a dose of plant life. Our innate craving for a connection to nature (biophilia) means that decorating with actual nature (like plants), or even references to nature makes us happier, and who doesn’t want to be happier?
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Upholstered Closet in the Diva Vintage Glamour Den Project
So we finished the One Room Challenge Diva Vintage Glamour Den bedroom makeover last week and posted all the pretty pictures, but one DIY project got squeezed in at the last minute between weeks 7 and 8 and so we didn’t write about it during the official challenge posts….
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ORC Reveal! The Vintage Diva Glamour Den
Finally! The reveal post we have all been waiting for! Read on to see the secrets of our feature wall, our gorgeous window treatments and custom bed, the fab closet, and what we did with all the vintage hats….finding a place for the tiara was easy…
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My Design Hero: Wayne
By design heroes, I don’t mean heroes who are designers, although I have a wide assortment of those, I mean the unsung heroes who make great design possible…
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ORC Week 7 plus...we're almost there!
Since our final reveal post for the Spring 2020 One Room Challenge will be just the pretty pictures, I wanted to bring you this interim post to show you some of the behind the scenes happenings…
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ORC Week 7 - Our Feature Wall is happening!
Yikes! It’s Week 7 of the One Room Challenge! This week, we’ve made some headway on our super secret feature wall and we are ready to spill the beans on what we are doing…mostly.
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ORC More Week 6
Hi again! As promised here is the rest of what happened this very busy week in our One Room Challenge Vintage Diva Glamour Den bedroom makeover! This week was all about grunt work and heavy lifting…literally! First we took…
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ORC Week 6: The Windows
So here is Week 6 of the ORC. We are more than halfway through the challenge doing our Vintage Diva Glamour Den bedroom makeover. If you’ve missed the other weeks you can read about them here: WEEK 1 | WEEK 2 | WEEK 3 | WEEK 4. This week a LOT of stuff arrived, and thank goodness because time is running out in this 8 week challenge! It is quite a job to try to put together a great room on a budget without being able to go select most things in person…
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One Room Challenge, Week 4
If you are new here, welcome to the halfway point of the One Room Challenge…We’ve been focused on the windows, the bedding, and the feature wall this week…
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One Room Challenge: Week 2, Secret Garden Inspiration
Wow!, we are already a week into the One Room Challenge and I’m amazed at how fluid time is - one day takes forever and yet the week flies by! Today, we’ll talk about the inspiration for the space and some of the slow progress we are making on the Vintage Diva Glamour Den. We are both excited and terrified to be participating for the first time…
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