One Room Challenge {Week Two}: Painting and Thrifting

Well, it’s calendar week 2 of the One Room Challenge… meliorate known equally the Work-Your-Butt-Off-To-Complete-An-Impossibly-Beautiful-Space Challenge.  You tin read.more most the challenge at Calling It Home. If yous missed it, I started off the challenge end calendar week past times sharing my Eclectic Big Girl Room inspiration. This calendar week I’m sharing our progress, which primarily includes painting, painting, painting, together with a piffling chip of thrifting :) 

We started past times choosing a white pigment coloring to pigment the walls inward the bedroom, together with the closet. I wanted something brilliant together with fresh. We chose to occupation

Frost past times Behr Paint, together with it was the perfect choice!

This room seemed to get got MANY dissimilar uses along the way, then the walls were littered amongst giant smash holes together with imperfections. Lots of putty together with primer went into these walls earlier nosotros could fifty-fifty get down the icon process.

But since, nosotros couldn’t pigment the walls, nosotros painted the cupboard (see photograph above), together with rapidly went out to brand our kickoff (second if yous count the paint) sleeping room purchase: a cupboard organizer. You tin encounter the boxes scattered on the flooring inward the chaotic room below…

Here’s a quick glance a the room afterward painting, icon together with to a greater extent than icon of the baseboards together with walls (except the characteristic wall).

And here’s our piffling helper! She should live on ready to pigment her ain room past times the side past times side makeover!

And…. duh, duh, da, duh! The cupboard organizer, which is going to brand my life 100% easier equally I motion my piffling girl’s things into the room.

Since nosotros can’t pigment every day, nosotros also took a pair of opportunities to banking concern jibe out the local thrift stores together with purchase to a greater extent than or less much needed furniture.

Our kickoff honor was this dresser together with bedside tabular array laid that nosotros bought from the local Second Chance Furniture shop inward Grande Prairie. The pieces get got the same hardware on them that my sleeping room slice of furniture had equally a piffling girl! That may live on occupation of the argue I needed to purchase them… also the fact that they are made from woods together with furnish a keen base of operations for a fabulous slice of furniture flip (stay tuned!).

Finally, I establish this GREAT mirror! I love, love, dear the detail, together with I can’t await to re-paint it together with laid it upward for my piffling girl.

Well, that wraps upward calendar week one!

How exercise yous mean value nosotros did?

Here’s how we’re doing with our lengthy 6 calendar week “to-do” list:

• Paint walls (including cupboard walls)


• Paint baseboards, primary door, together with cupboard doors


• Paint stencil characteristic wall


• Purchase together with install cupboard organizer


• Cut, install, together with pigment crown molding


• Find thrifted dresser together with re-paint/re-design it


• Find thrifted mirror to re-paint


• Purchase together with get together bunk bed


• Find/make pastel accessories


• Sew curtains


• Sew duvet cover, pillow cases, together with throw pillow covers


• Find lite fixture


• Create fine art run for DIY gallery wall


• Help Ellie (my daughter) create fine art run for her space


• Find a chair for her/me to read in


• Find rugs for space


• Make DIY sleeping room hooks


• Possible DIY nighttime stand


• Possible DIY bookshelf

For more inspiration, accept a peak at my Kids Rooms Pinterest board.

Make certain to banking concern jibe out the other amazing room transformations at Calling It Home now!