One Room Challenge {Week 2}: Our Typical Home Renovation Arguments

Alright, it’s calendar week ii of our 6 calendar week renovation challenge: the i room challenge. If you lot missed it, final calendar week nosotros revealed all of our Entry Design Plans as well as you lot guys gave us the BEST feedback! This calendar week was not every bit productive every bit nosotros would receive got liked… no where closed actually. And when I recollect nigh having solely 5 weeks left… I cringe a little, lol. Although this is our domicile renovation blog… therefore you’d recollect we’d hold upwards used to it! Along amongst this calendar week beingness a chip unproductive, nosotros also ran into a few blueprint dilemmas… leading to our typical domicile renovation arguments… but I’ll enjoin you lot to a greater extent than nigh that inwards a minute!

Catch upwards on previous weeks: 

Week 1 // Week 2 // Week 3 

First at that spot are a pair of things nosotros had done inwards this infinite already that I hadn’t shown you lot final week. We had painted all of the walls as well as ceilings white – the same white from our Home Colour Palette. So nosotros are starting amongst a crisp palette! And I’m planning at to the lowest degree i coloured wall earlier this room renovation is done.

Second, is that nosotros had already added a novel low-cal fixture. This cage low-cal solely pose me dorsum $50, as well as I loved the hold back of it! I’m non planning to supplant it therefore hopefully it blends correct in.

The mass of our progress this calendar week was getting the demo done.

We cleared all of the trim, removed the quondam flooring, as well as removed the carpet from the bench.

And as well as therefore nosotros got to my blueprint plans, as well as realized that my married adult man as well as I had a few dissimilar ideas nigh what was happening within this closet [read: I had the correct thought as well as he didn’t understand….lol ].

This within of the cupboard is supposed to furnish something we’ve never had inwards this room before: organization. And at that spot are ii ways nosotros were planning to add together to it: shelves as well as something to hang coats.

I say “something to hang coats” because my married adult man believed that this meant a large rod across the dorsum of the cupboard as well as I thought it meant a few beautiful hooks. This is where nosotros meet those domicile renovation stresses. Enter declaration #1….

I say argument, but genuinely it’s a rattling rational discussion, as well as it’s a give-and-take nosotros receive got over as well as over again. He takes the side of “function” as well as I receive got the side of “pretty”. Yes, mayhap a large rod is to a greater extent than functional for our menage unit of measurement of almost 5 amongst closed to 20+ jackets, but hooks hold back prettier! LOL. Like this or this. I don’t desire an ugly rod to obstruct the persuasion of my beautiful novel shelves as well as baskets!

We settled this the way nosotros unremarkably do… talking until person concedes, lol. Either I create upwards one's take heed that I cannot laissez passer on an inch on my blueprint plans, or my married adult man decides that it doesn’t have to hold upwards every bit functional every bit he wants, if it’s going to hold back ameliorate the other way.

This fourth dimension around, he won. We genuinely exercise receive got a lot of coats, as well as absolutely nowhere to shop them (until nosotros construct that dream garage amongst the mudroom…). So I’m going to purge a few coats, as well as hope that the cupboard notwithstanding looks beautiful amongst a rod.

Our 2d “conversation” came because my married adult man kept using the words “built-in” when nosotros were talking nigh the shelves inwards the closet. It went a piffling something similar this:

Me: “You proceed proverb ‘built-in’, but it’s gonna hold back similar floating shelves, right?”

Husband: “Ya, similar built-in floating shelves”

Me: “But simply the shelves volition hold upwards stained right? Behind as well as at the sides volition hold upwards white. Like floating shelves?”

Him: “Ya… I recollect we’re proverb the same thing”

*spoiler alarm – nosotros were not!* 

At vii months pregnant, I’m out for a lot of the piece of occupation this fourth dimension around, which agency a ton of it is falling on the hubby’s shoulders as well as his blueprint plans. He was planning to construct a large built-in amongst shelves as well as slide it into identify inwards the closet. Basically the entire slice would hold upwards stained (although nosotros could pigment some white if nosotros wanted – but it wouldn’t hold back right). That agency woods all upwards both sides of the cupboard – woods back, sides as well as shelves. What I was wanting looked to a greater extent than similar what nosotros receive got mocked upwards inwards the photograph below.

Me: “No! That’s every bit good much wood!”

Him: “I thought you lot wanted wood”

Me: “Like floating shelves. Didn’t you lot hold back at my blueprint board?”

Him: “I thought you lot simply left some out… floating shelves is way to a greater extent than work. I had a programme here.”

Me: “Nope. Can’t exercise it – its way to much wood. Time for a novel plan.”

Him: <crickets as well as an angry face>

You can’t hold upwards a domicile renovation weblog without sharing your arguments, right? lol.

But really… imagine this shelf, times four, amongst a night or teak stain. Nice right? I won this one! Once he comes upwards amongst a novel construct plan, he’s unremarkably ok amongst my vision.

Renovations amongst your husband are SO much nigh compromise. There volition ever hold upwards domicile renovation stresses! Every. Single. Room nosotros exercise ends upwards amongst a shape vs. aesthetics “conversation”. You win some, you lot lose some. And at most, you lot rest mad at each other for a few hours… lol. Just never become to bed mad!

Since I’m an obsessive listing maker, here’s our domicile renovation to-do list:

1. Demo the space


2. Tile the floor


3. Tile the bench


4. Build novel shelving for storage


5. Build novel drawers for storage


6. Design characteristic wall


7. Build woods characteristic wall


8. Paint


9. Remove quondam door


10. Install novel door


11. Buy a smart lock set


12. Buy some decor (i.e. baskets, rug, etc).


13. Order planters as well as imitation or existent plants


14. Install novel modern moulding

So nosotros got 1 out of xiv things done…. lol. That’s non a bad sign is it?

WISH U.S. of A. of America Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 MORE PRODUCTIVE WEEK!

Find to a greater extent than cracking One Room Challenge blueprint plans on the One Room Challenge site, or at Calling it Home!