One Room Challenge™

One Room Challenge | Modern Farmhouse Bathroom | The Reveal

Hello friends and welcome to Week 7 of the One Room Challenge and the final reveal of my Modern Farmhouse bathroom! Today is the day that designers and bloggers have been working on and documenting for the last six weeks. Transforming spaces, designing, demoing, styling. For some of us It’s been 6 weeks of excitement, breakdowns, sore backs and questions as to why the heck we agreed to do it! Lol. Well today is the day we share the culmination of everything we’ve been working towards. You can follow along with my previous weeks to see the process here:

One Room Challenge Modern Farmhouse Bathroom The Reveal

I decided to do the main bathroom on the second floor. It’s small and is basically used as a guest bathroom for my daughter and son in law when they come to visit. I had recently painted it white in the hopes of making it a little brighter but nothing could brighten the black tiles that covered the tub and shower enclosure. I thought it would be the perfect candidate for a reno/makeover.

So let’s see what we started with!

The Before:

You can see that black tile I was talking about!

The Final Reveal!

The After:

I basically threw everything that I love into one small room! Shiplap, white subway tiles, cement tiles, wood, linen, what’s not to love?

This black and white floor tile is the star of the show and I absolutely love it! The tile was definitely worth the splurge and using it in a smaller space made it more affordable. It may be on trend now but I didn’t mind making a trendy statement in a little space. I also used white subway tile, It’s simple, classic and you can never go wrong with that!

The Metrie Shiplap was one of the easiest projects we did in this bathroom and next to the floor tile, is my favourite thing! It’s Metrie’s Complete shiplap and comes pre-primed and pre-painted in “Polar White” a gorgeous clean, crisp white. I can’t tell you how beautiful this shiplap looks in person. It’s has a beautiful and uniform finish and looks like it was professionally installed. I want this all over my home now! You can see how we installed it here.

I changed up the original lighting I had chosen in my vision board. I realized that we didn’t have the room to have the sconces I had planned on. The lighting I installed is part of the Home Decorators Collection lighting from the Home Depot and is perfect for the space.

Isn’t this little wooden stool so cute? It’s the perfect size for my small bathroom and a great place to set a book, cup and candle on when you’re taking a bath. All these great accessories in our bathroom are from Homesense.

We chose to use the over the door rack to hang all the towels on. I loved this shiplap so much I didn’t want to ruin it by placing hooks into it! I wanted to keep the bathroom as clean and clutter free as possible. The rack is also great for holding some bathrobes for your guests when they come to visit. I found these lovely turkish towels and bathrobes along with the rack at Homesense!

Source List

Shiplap: Metrie Complete® Pre-painted Shiplap

Vanity Light: Glenhurst 3 light vanity fixture, Home Decorator’s Collection, Home Depot

Mirror: Homesense

Floor Tile: M2 Tile

Vanity: Ikea

Faucet: Ikea

Stool: Homesense

Turkish towels, Cotton terry Bathrobes, Shower Curtains, Soap dish, Dispenser, Candle, Towel rack, Toilet paper stand: Homesense

Thanks so much for following along on this makeover journey with us! This was our first real reno and there were a lot of ups and downs, problems that we weren’t sure how to deal with and lots of youtube video watching! We were the designers, contractors and tradesmen for this project. Next time I think I just want to design and leave the rest of the work to the real tradesmen 😉 Thanks to Linda from Calling it Home for hosting another great Challenge. Be sure to follow along with all the other designers and participants to see their finished projects.

Thanks to all our Sponsors who helped to make this makeover possible!

Bathroom Makeover | One Room Challenge | Week 6

11:38 pm by kim 12 Comments

Hi everyone and welcome to Week 6 of the One Room Challenge! If you’re new here, I’m a guest participant in Linda’s from Calling it Home One Room Challenge. A biannual event where a group of designers and bloggers chronicle a makeover of one room in their home in 6 weeks. We’re on week 6 right now but this year the challenge has been extended for another week. So next week will be the final reveal and I’m so excited to share our makeover with you all!

You can follow along with the previous weeks here:

Bathroom Makeover One Room Challenge Week 6

This week’s progress:

This week we finally got the grout done on the floor tile. We used a charcoal coloured grout that fits right in with the charcoal of the tiles. We used a slow drying grout and had to stay off the floor for 72 hours. It was wonderful! We basically had the weekend off which was great because the hubby and I needed the break. Don’t those tiles look amazing?

Once the grout was dried and cured we were able to get back in there and put the baseboards on.

We also got the vanity in after the hubby did some (a lot) of maneuvering with the pipes. Yahoo!

Remember those nasty pipes that came up out of the floor that couldn’t be moved? Well the hubby used the Metrie baseboards to make a box around them. It’s hardly noticeable, unless you’re down on the floor where I was when I took this photo. Once I caulk the corners and fill in the nail holes it will look great.

I’m so glad the vanity fit! It looks great with the gorgeous shiplap and tiles. These pictures don’t do the room justice.

Task list before the final reveal:

Add the mirror
Install the toilet
Caulk the baseboards, sink and tub
Install the tub/shower hardware.
Accessorize

Well that’s it for this week. It’s such a small room that there’s only so much to show without revealing it all..and that’s for next week! You can subscribe to the blog to make sure you don’t miss out on any posts. They’ll come straight to your inbox.

Blessings,

Kim

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 5 | Shiplap time!

10:38 pm by kim 18 Comments

Welcome back to the One Room Challenge Fall 2017 week 5, it’s time to get our shiplap on!

If you’re new here, hello! You can follow along with the previous One Room Challenge weeks here:

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 |

You can also follow along with all the other bloggers and designers and see what there up to this week here.

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 Week 5 Shiplap Time!

(This post has been sponsored by Metrie, all thoughts and opinions are my own)

This week we had some help from Metrie who offered their gorgeous Metrie Complete® Shiplap for our Modern Farmhouse Bathroom Makeover. The shiplap comes already primed and painted in “Polar White” which is a beautiful crisp white and you know I love me some white 😉

I have to say this was one of the easier projects for this challenge! We’ve applied shiplap before using thin plywood boards and made our own spaces using coins. With the tongue and groove feature on these shiplap boards there was no more watching our quarters and loonies rolling away on the floor! It was simpler to lay the boards and it looked so much more uniform. The fact that the boards are all pre-painted a beautiful satin finish also saved a lot of time. Instead of filling nail holes with wood filler, sanding then priming and painting, you fill in the holes with a wax and then buff. Metrie offers a Metrie Complete finishing kit with everything you need to finish your project:

How We Did it and What You’ll Need:

Find the studs in your wall with a stud finder.

2. Mark the studs and then use a chalk line or a level to mark them down the wall.

3. Some people start from the bottom, but I like to have full boards around the ceiling line. Place your first board with tongue side down and use a level to make sure your first board is level.

4. Add your boards and nail them using your nail gun. Where you nail into the tongue, you’ll need to fill in your nail hole before you place your next board. It’s much easier filling those holes before you add the next board. (Don’t ask me how I know!)

5. To fill in your holes, use your wax stick or putty jar. I mostly used the wax stick.

6. You can use your scraper card or a putty knife to remove any excess wax.

7. Use the abrasion pad to buff out and smooth the area.

8. We applied cove molding to the ceiling and in the corners to make the seams uniform. we also caulked with Metrie’s caulking. All the products in the Builder finishing kit comes in the same “polar white” colour as the shiplap so that everything matches.

Yes that’s my famous camouflage plant! I’m using it to hide those unsightly pipes sticking out of the floor.

There is still a lot to do. I’m so grateful for the added week!

We still need to grout the floor tile.
Once the floor tile is grouted we’ll be able to put on the last two pieces of subway tile near the floor.
Add the baseboards.
Finish the caulking
Clean up the ceiling
Put the ceiling fan back on. (Still not sure why that is off lol!)
Put the vanity together and pray it fits!
Bring the toilet back in.
Hang the mirror.
Install the taps and hardware.

Thanks so much for joining along on our makeover/reno challenge! Just a reminder that a week has been added onto our schedule, so the final reveal will be on November 16th. To see some more makeover/renos you can follow along with all the other bloggers and designers here.

Blessings,

Kim

Thanks to our sponsors.

Bathroom Makeover | One Room Challenge Week 4

4:17 pm by kim 14 Comments

Hello everyone and welcome to the Bathroom Makeover One Room challenge week 4! I’ve heard that week 4 is one of the most difficult weeks of the challenge. I think I’ll hold judgment on that until week 5 is over! If you’re just tuning in now, the One Room Challenge is hosted by Linda from Calling it Home. A challenge where designers and bloggers make over one room in their home in 6 weeks. You can follow along on with everyone’s progress here and my (somewhat) bathroom makeover progress here:

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Bathroom Makeover One Room Challenge Week 4

Before:

Lets take a look at what we started with:

(After everything we’ve been through the last few weeks, this before doesn’t really look so bad anymore!)

Progress:

It took nearly a week to demo this whole bathroom.

We changed out that insulation behind the tub after this photo was taken.

I explained all about our drywall issues in last week’s post.

We finally got to tiling the surround and it took a lot of time due to uneven wall issues.

Before we could apply the floor tiles, we had to apply the cement board which required some thin set to adhere it.

The cement board is down and now we’re ready to tile the floor and then grout everything.

Where we’re at now:

Hooray! All the tiles have finally been applied but still need to be grouted. We’ll have to wait 48-72 hours before we can do that because we used the longer drying thin set mortar. The hubby and I will not want to see, measure, cut, saw, chip and glue another darn tile for a loooong time!

Inspiration:

This is my mood board and inspiration. At times it’s hard to believe it’s going to resemble any of this!

Shea from Studio McGee has the most gorgeous bathrooms on her site. You can see some of them here. They’ve been such an inspiration to me. When you’re in the thick of a messy reno, you need to keep the pretty pictures in front of you to remind you why you’r e doing this!

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Still To-do List:

Grout floor and wall tile
Paint ceiling
Apply trim to door
Apply Metrie shiplap to remaining walls
Assemble and Install vanity (Pray it fits!)
Add shower/bath/sink hardware
Install toilet
Install/add accessories!

Thank you everyone for joining me as I share our long and hard fought for progress! Just a little note to let you know that the ORC will be extended for one more week. Due to all the natural disasters happening, many participants have had difficultly in getting their products in time etc. So for the first time in ORC history this challenge has been extended by a week and the final reveal will be on Nov. 16th. That gives us all one more week to get this done!

blessings,

Kim

Thanks to my sponsors for helping to make this makeover possible!

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 3 | Reno Challenges

12:32 am by kim 12 Comments

Hey everyone! It’s week 3 of the One Room Challenge and it’s been a doozy. There may have been the odd swear word, some wringing of hands along with some tears (all me)! I’ve watched enough home renovation shows to know that a renovation rarely goes smoothly. Well we were no exception…

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 Week 3 Reno Challenges

Let’s do a brief recap of Week 2 the demo week..

We spent an entire week and removed everything except the drywall on the bathroom walls. (Not sure why the plunger and toilet are in the tub! haha)

We found this large drainage pipe coming up out of the floor!

My meltdown and what we did this week..

My husband removed the old insulation and replaced it. He and his friend then put up the drywall in the tub/shower surround. This is where it kinda went downhill. After the drywall was attached I went to inspect it and noticed that one of the drywall walls was sitting outside the tub lip. I’m not sure how the previous wall/tiles were placed but there was no way I was going to be able to apply tiles with a crooked wall!

You can see the problem here.

We were at a loss as to what to do. We could take that piece down and put it over the lip, but then it wouldn’t match up with the other main wall. We would be fixing one problem but causing another. We were then told by 2 plumbers that the giant black pipe couldn’t be moved because of the joists and would have to stay. Yep, by this time I was having a bit of a meltdown. I put on my best Scarlett O’Hara impersonation and said “tomorrow is another day”. Our daughters came over for a visit and we took the weekend off and ignored the whole situation!

By Sunday I knew we had to address the problem and stop pretending that I hadn’t just demolished my whole bathroom! I was thinking that we could just call the whole thing off. Tell our sponsors how sorry we were. Maybe find a contractor that wasn’t booked up till next year and let him/her sort it out.

But then I pulled up my big girl pants and found an old friend to come over and take a look at the situation. He advised us to drywall over that wall again and continue along the length of the whole wall. So that’s what we did. We made our 145th trip to the Home Depot and picked up our supplies. We had the drywall hung and mudded by that evening. All the walls were flush!

I finally got my tiles and started tiling!

My bathtub is a little lower on one side so It took a bit of time to get everything level, but we’re on our way!

What we still have to do:

Finish installing the tile on the tub/shower surround.
Apply the Metrie Shiplap and finishing.
Tile the floors.
Install the vanity…and pray it fits!
Install the taps, shower head etc.
Add all the accessories.

In the middle of all the mess, it’s good to have your mood board in front of you. It let’s you know that there’s an end to the craziness and it’ll be beautiful!

Having anything by Shea and her team for inspiration doesn’t hurt either. 😉 It also adds a little bit of pretty in these unpretty reno posts too!

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Special thanks to my sponsors who are helping to make this bathroom possible!

Thanks for checking in on the progress and hearing about my woes. You can follow along with me on Instagram as I share the day in and day out progress.

blessings,

Kim

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 2 | Demo Week

8:45 pm by kim 16 Comments

Demo Week

Welcome to week 2 of the ORC. If you’re just joining in with me today, here is a link to week 1 where I explain my plans to turn this dated room into a Modern Farmhouse bathroom. We’ve all watched the home makeover shows where the “demo day” is that amazing day where you’re able to start tearing out walls, tiles and aged appliances etc. At the end of the day everything has been removed and you’re left with a clean slate to start building from. Well folks, as the old saying goes, “only on TV”! Unless you have a team of workers working behind you, there is no such thing as a demo day! It’s taken the hubby days to remove tile, drywall, a vanity, mirror, toilet and the dreaded floor tile. This One Room Challenge week 2, has kicked our butts. What we thought would be that lauded “demo day” has turned into the seemingly never ending “demo week”!

So this is what happened…get ready for some non-pretty pics.

At first my hubby tried to take each tile off at a time. With the hopes we could save the drywall behind it and not have to worry about replacing it. No. somewhere or somehow you damage that drywall behind and you end up having to take it all down. After this lesson was learned, my hubby just took the drywall and tile down together in sheets. It was a much faster process doing it this way.

When it came time to take out the vanity, we noticed there were no water shut-off valves. So after turning off the water in the whole house and many trips to the Home Depot later, we were able to avoid a flood and remove the vanity…only to find this!

The water pipes come up straight out of the floor! There is also this gigantic black drainpipe jutting out of the floor and into the wall. If you look at my mood/vision board you’ll notice that the vanity I wanted was up off the floor. In fact every vanity I liked was up off the floor. It makes a smaller space seem airier and larger. Well now I have to change my plans on that vanity. This whole pipe mess will have to be covered up.

The floor tile, mesh and concrete thingy was the worst. We finally called up a friend and we borrowed a jack hammer, yep, we ( and by “we” I mean the hubby) were jack hammering this room until late last night. We finally got it all up. Other than removing a few staples and a few stray pieces of dry wall, I think we’re done the demo stage. Phew! When things look like this, it’ hard to believe it will ever be done!

So now before those pictures burn a hole into our retinas, let’s take a look at how I envisioned this room to look. It may completely change by the time I get through but nevertheless lets focus on my pretty vision.

Here is some lovely inspiration via Studio Mcgee because Shea and her team know how to do a bathroom!

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My vision for how this space can look is the only thing that’s keeping me sane at this point. This reno thing is not for the faint of heart! Don’t forget to join me back here next week to follow along as well as pop in and see all the other participants, I’m hoping there will be major progress in this room by then. Please let there be progress!! Lol.

Thanks to my sponsors who are contributing to my Modern Farmhouse Makeover this time around!

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 1 | Our Modern Farmhouse Bathroom

8:54 pm by kim 14 Comments

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 1

Call me crazy but I’m doing it again! This will be my second time participating as a guest in the biannual room makeover series called the One Room Challenge hosted by Linda from Calling it Home. Twenty featured design bloggers are chosen to participate, as well as 200 plus guest Participants to make over a room in six weeks! So much decor and makeover inspiration to check out on the ORC site….And so the madness begins…again!

To say I’m a little nervous is an understatement! The last time I participated in the One Room Challenge we were making over our office space. We applied board and batten, hung a barn door and the rest was decor and cosmetic changes. This time around we will be making over our small main bathroom and there will be demoing involved people, Eek! This bathroom is used by my daughters when they come to visit and stay in the guest room. When it’s clean and the shower curtain is pulled across, it can almost look pretty. I even had my daughter do a fresh coat of paint on it a few months back. But that black tile has been the bane of my existence (a little dramatic I know) since we bought our home. It’s the one thing I told my husband had to go! The vanity was passible when we first moved in but it has served it’s purpose and is ready to go as well. So let me share this room with you.

Here is the before (It sounds better than right now, because these photos are a little embarrassing!) Please don’t judge. Yes there is a missing knob on the vanity door.

Maybe I wasn’t being too dramatic when I said that the black tile was the bane of my existence?!

So let’s move on to what I hope our after will look like:

Mood board

So here is the moodboard/vision I have for my new Modern Farmhouse Bathroom:

I placed all my favourite things in this moodboard to achieve this modern farmhouse look. It’s a look that will go well with my coastal farmhouse/cottage vibe I have going on in the rest of my home and I love every element from colour to texture.

Plan of Action

Remove the black tile and replace with plain white subway tile.
Apply white modern shiplap by Metrie to the rest of the room.
Change out the hardware in the shower/tub stall.
Do something creative with the floor tiles.
Remove the old vanity and replace it with something more up to date.
Remove the builder basic mirror and replace it with a new round one.
Remove the old lighting and replace it.
Add accessories, shower curtain, waste basket, stool etc.

It’s exhausting just reading this! You can find all the other participants here. Don’t forget to check back next week to follow along with the process as well as to check if the hubby and I are still alive and married… Okay let’s get this party started.. Honey, get the hammer!

It’s Friday I’m in Love

4:56 pm by kim 6 Comments

It’s Friday I’m in Love

Hello everyone! I wanted to introduce you to a new series I’m starting called “It’s Friday I’m in Love”, where I share my weekly loves on Fridays. I’ve been planning this idea for months and have finally gotten around to doing It! I also managed to get through as many ORC shares as possible this week, so my first instalment of “It’s Friday I’m in love” series will be sharing my favourites/loves from the One Room Challenge. There were so many amazing contributions to the ORC but there were a few that really resonated with me. Whether it was because of the style, colour, transformation etc. these are the ones that caught my eye. I know that at least one of them will be a little surprising!

Akadesign.ca

Shannon and her hubby Dean, from AKA Design absolutely outdid themselves on this kitchen remodel. It’s been one of my faves and I was so excited joining in every week to watch it all unfold and it certainly didn’t disappoint! It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly is my favourite element from their new kitchen but they kind of had me at the custom wood range hood cover…and the stainless steel apron front sink…the butcher block counters are pretty sweet too and I love open shelving! Lol, you get that I love it all right?

thediymommy.com

I love the transformation Christina from thediymommy.com made to this room that was previously a pretty sitting room but not being used. She turned it into a totally usable dining space and I love everything from the fabric in the curtains to the gorgeous colour of the rug. Who wouldn’t want to linger at this table after a lovely meal?

Makingitinthemountains.com

When I first saw this farmhouse powder room by Kristi at makingitinthemountains.com, my heart skipped a beat! That gorgeous wooden vanity and mirror, marble, shiplap and barn door were all a delight for my farmhouse loving eyes. What a great use of space!

Almafied.com

How gorgeous is this breakfast nook by Alma from Almafied.com? Alma is amazing at bringing gorgeous texture and colour together and maintaining bright and airy spaces. I always have the heart eyes whenever I see one of her beautiful rooms.

Lifeisaparty.ca

Dannyelle from Lifeisaparty.ca did an amazing job on transforming her living room and eating area into this bright and airy scandinavian inspired space. Doesn’t this look so inviting? The before and after is incredible!

Simplicityinthesouth.com

As soon as I saw Tricia from Simplicityinthesouth.com‘s guest shed I decided that I wanted to be the first guest in there! There are so many sweet details in this guest shed (can your really call this a shed?!) that you will immediately be calling Tricia to book a weekend away.

Kellyrogersinteriors.com

And for those of you who think I don’t love colour, how about this? Kelly from Kellyrogersinteriors had me at the blue Jenny Lind beds. I love the pink and that wallpaper creates such a great focal wall to place those beds against. The rug and light fixture are just the icing on this colourful cake!

Meaningfulspaces.com

And lastly, Laura and her hubby from Meaningfulspaces.com did such a great job of taking a large two story space and making it appear cozy and inviting. By adding board and batten and this area rug, among a few other changes, they totally transformed this room!

Well those are my favourites pics and choices for the first ever instalment of “It’s Friday I’m in Love”. I’m sure that we all have our own favourites and some that just caught our eye for one reason or another. I’m just so proud of everyone who entered the challenge, it can be a difficult process and we’re all winners! If you wanted to see my final reveal you can find that here!

Blessings,

Kim

One Room Challenge™ | Spring 2017 | Week 6 The Reveal

5:04 pm by kim 43 Comments

The One Room Challenge Final Reveal

Well the day has finally arrived for the One Room Challenge™ final reveal! It’s been a long, crazy and busy six weeks for so many of us and now for the pay off! I’ve been working on making over an unused and dysfunctional office/workroom space into a Modern Coastal Farmhouse inspired room that’s both functional and pretty. It’s been so much fun following the designers and other participants as they make over rooms in their homes all in six weeks! If you would like to see where we started from and how we got to the final reveal, you can follow along with our previous weeks here:

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5

And to give you a little reminder of what we started with:

Before:

After:

I love it! This space will function as both an office and a workroom for me. It’s a small 9’x12′ room so I wanted it to be very functional without appearing cluttered. I removed the shelving units because I knew from past history that they can become a “catch all” for me. I replaced it with this gorgeous modern sideboard from Structube that is clean and sleek and contains so much storage space. The sideboard will hold everything to do with the “office” portion of the room. Everything is neatly hidden away and no clutter means no stress for me!

And did you see that awesome light fixture? I fell for this fixture as soon as I saw it in the Westelm showroom this spring. I love the modern look of it mixed in with some of the wooden pieces in the room. It adds the right amount of tension for my modern coastal farmhouse vibe I was going for.

The top of the sideboard allows me a surface to add some pretty accessories that will change with the seasons. All the lovely accessories here and on my desk (except for the wooden tray and anthropologie candles) are from Homesense!

If you follow me on Instagram, you know how much I love decorating with flowers and these faux hydrangeas from Afloral look so real! They’ll definitely see a lot of use.

I already had this brass mirror hanging in my dining room but I knew it had to come into this room to play off the light fixture and other brassy accents. It really goes so well in here!

Every room needs some texture and something to hold extra pillows and throws and these baskets from Canadian Tire’s CANVAS collection do the job wonderfully!

The pillow in the back is a diy pillow I made from a scatter rug, you can find the tutorial for that here.

We added this barn door because previously there was so much “junk” in our little walk-in closet that there was no room to close the door! I’ve always wanted a barn door and this was the perfect place for one. It really does help with allowing more usable floor space in the closet. The closet will hold everything to do with the “workroom” function of the space, such as my sewing machine, fabric, craft supplies etc.

We still hadn’t figured out what to do for wall treatments until the first week of the challenge! We then decided on board and batten and it was the best decision. I knew I wanted something to go above it to add some colour and pattern. For budget’s sake we decided on this gorgeous stencil called the Floral Fireworks Allover Stencil by Royal Design Studio. I stencilled it using “liberty blue” by Fusion Mineral Paint and it turned out beautifully, you can find the stencilling tutorial here.

We had originally picked another chair for this space but it just wasn’t the right colour and not the most comfy for sitting on for any length of time. I had wanted an office chair with wheels, but couldn’t find one that was both pretty and comfortable. We decided on one we already had and it’s suitable for now until I find that elusive “perfect desk chair” someday.

This rug from Rugs USA, is one of my favourite pieces in the room. It is so pretty and soft to walk on and goes so well with my coastal theme too. I think I want one for my bedroom now!

You’ll also notice that I switched out the above dark indigo cushion for a lighter one. The indigo one was made by yours truly!

I’m so happy with my new office/workroom! It ‘s such a bright, airy and functional space now. I know I’ll get so much use out of it, it’s too pretty not to want to sit in there! Stay tuned for a post on what’s in that sideboard and how I organized the closet coming later. Thanks so much for joining me on my first One Room Challenge journey and don’t forget to catch up on all the other reveals!

Thanks to Linda of Calling it home for creating and hosting this biannual design challenge. It was a great first time experience for us and you know I’m already deciding which room to do over in October. 😉

And a huge thank you to all our amazing Sponsors who made this project possible! I felt honoured to partner with each of these great brands and businesses and share their wonderful products.

(This post was sponsored by the following sponsors. All product given, was chosen by me and all photographs, thoughts and opinions are my own.)

Source List

Light Fixture: “Mobile Chandelier” in Antique Brass, West Elm
Rug: “Aerial Decorative Plumes” in blue 5×8 Rugs USA
Desk: Homesense
Sideboard: “Moby” in white, Structube
Mirror: Homesense
All Decorative Accessories on Sideboard and desk: Homesense
Large Baskets: “Nola” Canvas at Canadian Tire
Chair: Henriksdal, Ikea
Hydrangeas: Faux Hydrangea, Afloral.com
Fiddle leaf fig: Faux, Homesense
Turqoise Vase: Homesense
Stencil: “Floral Fireworks Allover Stencil 21″x23” by Royal Design Studios Stencil
Paint for Stencil: Fusion Mineral Paint in “Liberty Blue”
Cushions: The grey neutral one in the basket and the paisley one on chair: Homesense
Cushions: Dark blue indigo and the one in the back of the basket: KimPowerStyle
Gold file holder: Homesense

One Room Challenge™ Spring 2017 | Week 5 | Our Modern Coastal Farmhouse Office

10:53 pm by kim 29 Comments

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:

This post contain affiliate links, all photography thoughts and opinions are my own.

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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