Fall 2016 One Room Challenge - Week 5

Progress and Perspective.

Well, it's week 5.

Things should be wrapping up, details fine tuned

 and photos being taken in the next day or so.

There has been some progress in our Master Bathroom project

 and I'll share a few sneak peeks below.

But first, Perspective.

This is (hopefully) posting automatically. I am on an Emergency Relief site in Bluffton, SC where we are doing "mud outs" on Hurricane Matthew ravaged homes. Weeks after the "big news" of Hurricane Matthew people are still knee deep in mud - literally!

 

This is everything this family owns.  Everything. Just waiting for debris removal trucks.

Their Master Bathroom.

Perspective. 

I hope you'll enjoy my progress shots and check back at some point to see my room finished after I complete my "mud out" adventure.

I'm not sure it will be by the deadline.

First, I chose this gorgeous, amazing, I'm obsessed fabric
 for a little shower curtain thing I'm doing.
 I took this in the store with my iphone and it looks waaaay "red-er" than it is.
 It looks fab with the coral bamboo cabinet.

Can we just take a moment?

It was on sale - yippee! 
And it is a historical piece from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 
which is pretty appropriate.
I grew up in the DC area and my parents often took us to Williamsburg for fun weekends. We went during all the "seasons" including Christmas and many of my fond childhood memories are of those trips. And the cookies from the bakery. 
And then my Mom and Dad took us again when Mollie was young and "in to" American Girls Dolls - complete with a Mollie sized Felicity dress and cap!! All of the "residents" of Colonial Williamsburg stopped to talk to Mollie as if she were one of them. Such a great memory for Mollie!

The cabinets are white. Again.

(How many times will she paint these cabinets?? (QoftheD!)

The tape is still on the baseboards and I had a moment with the drill 
so you can see I will be touching up a couple of places. OY!

But aren't they pretty?
I wanted bamboo pulls and knobs but they were so expensive and, again, perspective triumphs. If I ever find some for less than $20.00 or more each then maybe!
These were on sale at Homegoods for $9.99 and they look gorgeous against the glossy white. 
I sprayed my old hinges to match. 
#usewhatyouhave

Here's one corner that is relatively together and clean. I try to look that way most of the time. Makes me feel better about the unchecked items on the to-do list!

And then there is this little sneak peek of lamp love.

And I'm still deciding about the salon/gallery wall over the tub.
So I went to the BIG GUNS for inspiration.

House Beautiful:

Stuart Membery's Loo.

You may remember I want to live at Monkey Palm in Bali.

#obsessedwithstuartmembery

Chairish:

and of course, One King's Lane and my original inspiration pic:



Be sure to visit Calling It Home Blog
 and see how things are looking with everyone nearing the finish line!!

Fall 2016 One Room Challenge - Week 4

This is the ongoing list on my iphone.

I feel like there should be more check marks :)

However several things are right there - hanging in the balance -

 allllmost ready to be checked off!!

    Good thing. 

There's a lot that looks like this:

 

And I went looking for fabrics again because the one I loved online was not "IT" in person.

Below are some contenders:

I have decided and it's on sale!!

 I just need a few minutes to hit my local store and grab it. 

I cannot wait to see it in the room!

Be sure to follow everyone's progress on Linda's blog, Calling It Home!! 

I can't wait to see how far along everyone is!!

Have You Ever Noticed How You Don't Notice?

Have you ever noticed how you don't notice something and then all of a sudden you see that thing everywhere??

Well, I found this perfectly fabulous coral-y orange Chinoiserie lamp for the vanity counter in my One Room Challenge Master Bathroom makeover/freshen up!

At Goodwill. 
I do plan to remove the GW sticker before I use it ;)
It's chillin' in the foyer waiting for all the "messy parts" to be finished upstairs.





And then I was looking through all of the "invited" Big Deal designers 
on the Calling It Home blog and I saw a post on Pencil and Paper Blog called "Picture Perfect" and would you  look at the lamp in the first pic!!!

And I start every Saturday with Emily A Clark's Saturday Six on her blog and this week  #1 was this house tour with that lamp!!

And then I was looking waaaay back on Jamie Meares blog (cause I love to read her blog!!), I Suwanee, and I saw this picture of her mom's guest room. Look at those orangey, coral-y Chinoiserie lamps!! A pair!!!!



I loved my lamp at first sight but now I feel like we are in good design company!
#validation

If your GW doesn't offer one up like mine did
 here is a gorgeous one from Scully and Scully:


It's about $366.32 more than my thrift store score but it's a beauty.

Fall 2016 One Room Challenge - Week 3

I am scarily calm about this.

I'm not sure why.

Because the Master Bathroom is scarily a mess!!

The giant mirror is down and the 80's wallpaper is there for all to see. 

I shared how I feel about 80's wallpaper on my Instagram this week.

White paint headed that way!

 There is one of the fabulous thrifted bamboo mirrors temporarily propped on the counter so we can leave in the morning knowing we've brushed everything that should be brushed and I have both earrings in!

I did clear out the tub.

 Had to find a new storage spot for my bamboo mirror stash 

but we are doing some electrical and they were in the way of the ladder.

The cabinets are still gray.

 I should be more concerned about this. 

And the floor is covered in drywall dust which is luckily the color of our carpet.

 So there's that. 

I did spend some productive time looking at fabric to use in a shower curtain hack. 

I'm in love with several. 

Price might be the deciding factor, I'm sorry to say.

#reallife

And I worked on this mirror a bit.

 But not a lot :)

See? 

Waaaay to calm for the number of weeks left on this shindig!

Be sure to check out all the other room transformations on Linda's blog, Calling It Home!

from my iphone 10 20 2016

1. We had a Sole Hope Shoe Cutting Party at church last week after our  Missions Lunch.

This is one of the easiest and truly helpful projects I have ever helped with. 

You cut shoes pieces out of old blue jeans.

 Mail them to Sole Hope, they ship to Uganda and teach people there how to make shoes thus employing people and the shoes are given to children who are in danger of disease, being crippled, amputation or worse due to jiggers.

#zerojiggers.

You order a kit with all you need but blue jeans 

and it's great as a home party or with a large group. 

Watch the videos of children with jiggers.

 Really. Do it. 

And the quote by Asher Collie at the beginning of the video about who the problem belongs to is one of the best!!)

Then have a Shoe Cutting Party. 

And all ages can help.

 Look at Frank cranking out the denim shoe parts.

 If a retired doctor of mathematics can do it, so can you :)

A very kind person donated their coin jar(s) to Edu-Pack to help with Hurricane Matthew Relief efforts in Haiti.

 However, it needed to be rolled. The WCYouth Group spent hours rolling it. 

And we haven't finished. We are at $1500.00

That's a big coin jar!!

2. I spend a lot of time in this gym from October until March Madness. 

I don't know a thing about basketball. I played tennis.

Thankfully I have a great team of basketball loving volunteers. 

And they are all 2 feet taller than I am :)

 3.  I went river rafting on the Nantahala. 

We used Nantahala Outdoor Center for our group and it was a fantastic experience.
Beautiful day on the river.
 Do it. 
It's good for the soul. 
Take your kids. #nocellservice

Someone did have what they call an OOBE.

Out of Boat Experience. 

It ended well - so no worries!

#oholivia

4. The purple mums Mollie gave me for my birthday in September are still going strong!

5.  Mollie turned 25!! 

#howdidthathappen

6. Compassion Experience.

I went to a Compassion Experience program in Roswell a few weeks ago.

Well done!

You experience life in an emerging nation through the eyes of a child. I learned a lot.

  If you get a chance to go to one - do it. 

And take your kids. It's interactive and you use ipods so there's that!!

7. I have had some great thrifting luck lately!

I love it when you find a pair!

(I have a new favorite mustard yellow spray paint!!)

This lamp!!! 

Bamboo shelf in perfect condition. $20.00 

#loaditup

Vintage bamboo swivel chairs.

Going white.

8. I made this one pan lemon rosemary chicken dish from Southern Living. 

Seriously good. And easy. And one pan!!

#winnerwinnerchickendinner

And this is my picture - not the professional SL one. 

It's really that gorgeous!!

9. I want to live in a house that is situated just like this.

But someplace warm.

10. I'm all in on flamingos. 

11. Mollie and our friend, Handel, from Haiti. We had dinner a few days after Hurricane Matthew ravaged the end of the island. His family and friends are okay.

There are lots of ways to help if you are able.

12. We have had a few cool nights in Atlanta and the firepit has been in use.

 It goes well with red wine ;)

Well, if you are still with me I promise to "empty" my cell phone more often. 

This was a long one!

I was invited to link up at White Spray Paint Blog.

Check it out and that's a blog name I can relate to!