One Room Challenge {Week Four}: Five Tips to Help Make Interior Decorating Decisions

It’s calendar week 4 of the One Room Challenge! If you lot looked at our entry room correct now, you lot would in all likelihood estimate that there’s absolutely no agency nosotros volition complete inwards 2 weeks. I mean… there’s a lot of piece of occupation to practise still! But roughly of the “work” is genuinely inwards the blueprint decisions. Most of my blueprint decisions for these challenges are done inwards advance, but no affair how much planning together with prep I do, at that topographic point are ever novel interior decorating decisions that popular up. This calendar week nosotros tackled a LOT of those decisions, which volition hopefully larn us 1 mensuration closer to finishing on time. Today I’m going to portion our progress, but showtime I’m going to portion a few tips for helping you lot brand those final infinitesimal decisions.

Catch upwards on previous weeks: 

Week 1 // Week 2 // Week 3 // Week 4

This past times calendar week I took to Instagram, hollo for viewers for their opinions on pigment colours for our characteristic wall. Honestly, when I asked I had no thought what I was going to conduct – I only knew that I was drawn to these unlike rich together with moody colours. Which got me thinking virtually the steps I unremarkably become through to tending me brand my blueprint decisions. And honestly, I went through ALL of them this week, lol.

Let’s start alongside my tips…

Five Tips to Help You Make Design Decisions:

1. Have a programme earlier you lot start together with cite dorsum to it often – Having a programme earlier you lot start knocking walls downwards is therefore important. You don’t receive got to hold upwards an interior designer to practise this either. I ever brand myself a Mood Board or Inspiration Board (like our entry 1 here), but you lot could easily only brand a Pinterest board total of ideas together with choice out your favourite elements there. I’ve had this “Hallways & Entryways” Pinterest board long earlier I started my renovation. If you lot larn stuck on a decision, add together it to your pinterest board or accept a screenshot together with seat it upwards against your mood board to come across how it fits!

2. Ask identify unit of measurement together with friends – Virtually every blueprint conclusion I brand goes through my hubby first. He doesn’t ever handgrip alongside me… until the room is done together with he sees I’m right, lol. But nosotros ever discuss. And if nosotros yet can’t decide, I inquire friends, together with my blueprint savvy Instagram followers.

3. Try it out inwards the space – Sometimes this is harder to practise than other times, but if you lot receive got the luxury of time, attempt it out first! Buy that slice of furniture, together with supply it afterward if it doesn’t work. Paint roughly splotches on the wall together with come across which 1 you lot similar better. Have your hubby create something custom together with and therefore enjoin him you lot don’t similar it later…. ok, I wouldn’t recommend the final one, but it may receive got happened to us this week! Whoops – to a greater extent than on that soon!

4. Hold off together with brand 1 conclusion at a time – Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of the fourth dimension when I’m doing renovations I desire to receive got all of my ducks inwards a row earlier I start, but renovations only don’t piece of occupation similar that. Ask anyone who’s done a total room together with bought all of the furniture/accessories ahead of fourth dimension – unremarkably you lot goal upwards regretting or returning something. I could non create upwards one's hear on pigment this week. It’s SO hard! Since icon is relatively easy, I only decided that I would hold off until the novel door was inwards identify earlier I decided. I recollect the former wooden door was throwing off my vision… It’s ok to wait. Better even. Finish the things you lot are sure virtually together with and therefore tackle all of the questions marks.

5. Trust your gut – In the goal you lot know what you lot love! I’ve asked everyone nether the Sun virtually blueprint decisions inwards the past, consulted my mood boards, bought the piece, together with yet gone against everyone’s advice because I wasn’t feelin’ it inwards the space. You receive got to alive alongside it, therefore brand certain you lot honey it!

Here are roughly of the decisions nosotros faced this week:

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Greenery was an slow conclusion to make! I honey existent greenery inwards a space, but mistaken greenery that looks real?! That I honey fifty-fifty more! When deciding on pots, I only referred dorsum to my mood board together with Pinterest boards. Black won obviously, lol. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 big pot, a cool contemporary vase, together with roughly hanging planters.

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My hubby was working difficult behind the scenes the final pair of weeks to larn these under-the-bench drawers done. Don’t they hold off amazing already?!

SO functional! Great storage! We only receive got to pigment them, together with seat the drawer fronts on together with they volition hold upwards done. This was his idea, but I was ever 100% on board.

What lock to utilization was roughly other conclusion to make. Did nosotros desire to pass coin on a smart lock that works alongside our Google Home? Did nosotros desire a dark 1 on a dark door? This is where nosotros sat inwards the Home Depot aisle spell I perused Pinterest for door ideas, lol. In the goal Pinterest helped a little, together with our guts helped a lot. We only liked this blueprint the best. And when nosotros brought it abode together with tested it on the door, nosotros knew nosotros were right.

Tile is ever a tough decision. Heck – I wrote a whole post service virtually only choosing bath tile! You should always attempt out tile inwards a infinite earlier you lot pass your coin on it. We got samples of a few unlike tiles earlier settling on this faux woods grain tile. We wanted to brand certain it would hold off proficient alongside the adjoining flooring, brand certain the colours were accurate, together with brand certain that it would hold off neat inwards the pattern I wanted to utilization – herringbone!

I was also worried that the faux woods grain tile would hold off likewise rustic for my modern space, but when I saw it, I knew it would stand upwards for inwards perfectly!

We also had to create upwards one's hear what to practise for a tabular array inwards the entry this week. I was looking at buying one, but it’s only non inwards the budget correct now… therefore instead I’m thinking of re-painting this guy below, taking out the inlayed wicker, together with putting inwards either a shelf, or something decorative. Get fix for roughly Instagram questions this week!

And dorsum to my master decision. What colouring of pigment to use… I went through all 5 stages of tips this week! lol. I took screenshots of the colours together with held them to my mood board, I perused Pinterest, I asked my Instagram together with real-life friends, I waited until our door was up… I did it all because I was therefore unsure of my decision! lol.

In the end, my gut won. I went against a bulk together with decided to become alongside the deep greenish – Black Bamboo past times Behr. It’s darker than inwards the link. Almost dark inwards roughly lights together with I only genuinely loved the colour.

Oh… together with 1 to a greater extent than thing. Remember the renovation arguments nosotros chatted virtually a pair of weeks ago? Well… this is the perfect illustration of seeing something inwards the infinite first! My hubby together with I agreed to utilization a rod inwards the entry because it’s to a greater extent than functional, together with holds to a greater extent than coats, together with nosotros almost receive got a identify unit of measurement of five, etc. etc. So my hubby custom built this beautiful built-in to stand upwards for the beautiful rod together with when I saw it inwards the space… I was speechless. My words were, “I don’t similar it”, lol. He did the most beautiful rod possible, but it only didn’t piece of occupation for me to receive got a rod blocking everything. So he was a fighting miffed… together with forthwith we’re on speaking damage again. Sorry hubby!

Since I’m an obsessive listing maker, here’s how our interior decorating decisions are coming along:

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 former door


10. Install novel door


11. Buy a smart lock set


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


13. Order planters together with mistaken or existent plants


14. Install novel modern moulding

Alright. Looking at the listing doesn’t brand me panic quite every bit much. Looks similar we’re halfway through our list, together with we’ve knocked off most of the big ones!

WISH the United States LUCK!

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

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