The One Room Challenge

I am happy to be a guest participant on the One Room Challenge. Just like many of the twenty featured designers and guests, I have redone a room in my own house. With Designers it is like the cobbler’s kids who have no shoes! There is never enough time to work on our own projects. Linda Weinstein started the One Room Challenge , now in its eighteenth season with a group of friends (designers) who all finished a project in their own homes. The biannual event starts in April and October every year. It lasts for 6 weeks, although this year it has been extended both in the Spring and the Fall due to the pandemic and Spring was extended also because of Black Lives Matter. Each week participants (featured designers and guests) write a blog about their progress or post on Instagram. You can follow all the designers here. This media sponsor is Better Homes and Gardens

This year I decided to redo our Master Bedroom. We have been in our house for just over a year and are slowly but surely trying to turn it into our dream home.

You can also read about my progress. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5,

The big reveal

All my hard work finally came together. Friday the photographer was here and lo and behold I was ready!

The room was originally painted taupe (ugh!) Anybody who knows me knows how much I hate that color. Not really a color is it?! By far my fave wash the shaggy ugly brown carpet (which is still in the rest of the house because we just could not do everything all at once).

As a reminder I am also posting a picture of the room when the One Room Challenge started.

The Paint

I chose Sherwin Williams Misty for the wall color and then scared the you-know-what out of my husband by painting the doors and all the trim Salty Dog. It would be fair for me to reveal that there have been times when I doubted that decision. Just like with all rooms, things began to fall into place after that.

The flooring

We replaced the ugly brown shaggy carpet with a herringbone Core-Tec Luxury Vinyl Plank. Originally we wanted to install tile in the room (and for that matter the whole downstairs area of our house) but we decided that it would be easier on the feet to install Luxury Vinyl Plank. We also wanted something that is waterproof since our house did flood during Hurricane Harvey. We were not living in it then.

The nightstands

Right after I had the room painted I found 2 great matching Chinese nightstands on Facebook Marketplace. It was a deal at $650 for both for solid wood furniture. They are chalk painted. Wouldn’t you know it, these were the perfect blue to go with my trim. I would normally not match nightstands but they were unique and I knew it would be hard to find something of the right scale to go with only one of them. My room has become so unintentionally Chinese that I think I will be charging my husband tariffs to sleep there.

The lamps which I have loved for a while came from my living room. I needed large scale lamps to balance the lower nightstands with the size of the bed.

The bed , the bed, the bed.

The showstopper of this room is definitely our bed. Our new bed is the most beautiful bed I have seen in a long time. It is bright and beautiful, eco friendly and big and oh so fabulous. The headboard is 7 feet tall. Not for the faint of heart or timid. The bed is from the Kristin Drohan Collection and available here. I used my own fabric which I ordered from a different company as it would save on the manufacturing time since I did not want a solid fabric on the bed.

I decided to use a darker fabric for the duvet cover (fig the color was called) as we are in Fall here in Texas. That basically means that our highs are now 80 instead of 100 degrees.

The seating area

I had those lovely mid-century modern green chairs which belonged to my mom, but decided not to use them since they are too small. I repurposed the two wingback chairs from my Living Room instead. We got rid of the chest of drawers as it was also just the wrong size.

The results are in and I am very happy with our dream bedroom

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