One Room Challenge | Week 5

Hello again everyone,  It’s hard to believe that it’s week 5 already and that next week is the final reveal! I’m not sure where the time has gone but this challenge has been fun, crazy and scary all at the same time.  This week we’ve been busy  trying to pull everything together for our Modern Coastal Farmhouse Office/Workroom  makeover so that we’ll be able  to style and photograph it on the weekend. If you’d like to get caught up from the previous four weeks:

Week 1: The Plan

Week 2: Board and Batten

Week 3: Stencilling Tutorial

Week 4: The Barn Door

This was the mood board I had created and helped to guide me in my plans of the makeover:

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There have been some additions and changes to our plans since I first created this board so let’s get caught up !When I first created the board I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do with the walls. After some thought I decided to go ahead with board and batten and was so pleased with the results. You may just see a little more of that being put up in another room soon! We also stencilled  the upper part of the wall above the board and batten using a gorgeous stencil called the “Floral Fireworks allover stencil” fromRoyal Design Studios. I used  my favourite Fusion Mineral Paint in Liberty Blue. The lovely water colour effect  adds to the look and feel we were going for.

(Week 2 and 3 saw us adding board and batten along with stencilling)

Another element we added to the room that was not on the mood board was the addition of our barn door. The barn door was added to help with the function of the closet as well as my dream to put one somewhere in my house! I simply love it! I had spray painted some of the hardware along with the handle to mimic the look of brass that would go along with the light fixture we were adding. It wasn’t brassy enough for me so I overlaid it with a couple of coats of Fusion Mineral Paint in Pale gold and it looks so much richer now and matches the brass light fixture perfectly.

(Week 4 had us adding a barn door)

So this is where we are as of today! You’ll notice that we’ve changed the chair from the one in our mood board. I’m still not sure about this one either. I’d love an office chair with wheels on the bottom but have yet to find one that is pretty to look at and comfortable too. Stay tuned to see how that saga plays out!

We have this gorgeous rug from rugsusa, desk, mirror, chair and pretty faux hydrangeas from Afloral in the room right now. My light fixture from Westelm came in on Monday and I am smitten with it! I’ll wait until next week to share that beauty! I’m still waiting for our sideboard storage unit that’s to be picked up from the store tomorrow (fingers crossed it’s arrived from another province, Ack!) I also have two deliveries scheduled for tomorrow which hold all the accessories for the room! Oh yes, I’m also waiting for delivery of a couple of cushions to add to the seating and hoping they’ll be here on time too…Phew!

I’ve learned a lot of what not to do here on my first challenge. The next time (If I survive this one) I’ll have a  better idea of how things should work! 🙂

So that’s a rundown of where we started and where we are as of today. There is still so much to do but I’m excited to see all our plans come together and praying for sunny skies to photograph it all! Don’t forget to come back next week to see the final reveal. You may want to subscribe to get my posts sent directly to your inbox. You can also follow along on Instagram for more pictures and progress stories. Have a great week!

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Modern Barn Door
One Room Challenge™ Week 4

Welcome to week 4 of the One Room Challenge™ hosted by Linda from Calling it Home, where designers and bloggers makeover a room in their home in 6 weeks. For those of you just tuning in, you can go back and follow the progress by reading Week 1, Week 2, and Week 3. This week I’ll be sharing this Modern Barn Door we’ve added to the space. We had planned on building our own door from plywood and molding, but when we factored in the time and cost, we decided that buying this ready-made door made more sense for us.

I had wanted a barn door for a really long time but I have a smaller home and a more open concept main floor. Meaning, there was no room anywhere for a barn door except in this room. When we were deciding on how to make this room more functional, we realized there was so much junk in our tiny walk in closet that we couldn’t even shut the closet door! However, we had to utilize as much floor space as possible in this closet, so a barn door was just what was needed! You can use all the floor space without having to worry about a door being swung open or shut. It was the  perfect solution and I got my dream of having a barn door!

If you remember my mood board, I had wanted this room to take on a Modern Coastal Farmhouse vibe:

So that meant along with some cozy pieces and texture, it would also have some clean lines and brass finishes. When we decided on the barn door, I wanted it to have the same aesthetic. Instead of going with the black hardware that I had always thought of having on a barn door, I chose this clean steel hardware. I had wanted hardware that incorporated  brass, but that was difficult to find, so I came up with my own solution.

The brass hardware is to tie in with the brass mirror and light fixture that are coming. I spray painted the two pieces that attach the door to the track, a soft gold using Rustoleum Metallic in Pure Gold before we hung the door.

I also found this clean lined and modern door handle from the Home Depot and spray painted it in the same finish. It really tied it all together. The door is painted Benjamin Moore’s “Simply White” along with the walls.

Our old door is still attached in there! Lol. The closet will be cleaned out and the old door removed this week. You may have noticed that I didn’t leave the space by the ceiling empty, but brought the stencil as close to the ceiling as possible. I didn’t mind it in the room at the time, but after seeing it on the blog last week, it looked too unfinished to me so I filled it in this week. I’m still loving that watercolour look!

Thanks for stopping by to check out the progress. It’s hard to make these update posts exciting when you’re only showing little bits at a time, I know.  Stay tuned though, only one more progress post and then the final reveal! Don’t forget to follow along with the other participants here!

Blessings,

Kim