One Room Challenge {Week One}: Modern Entry Design Plans

It’s happening again! If you’ve been next Love Create Celebrate for a piece now, thus yous in all probability already know that I LOVE participating inward the One Room Challenge. For those who haven’t heard, it’s a challenge where hundreds of bloggers renovate and/or redesign a infinite inward at that topographic point homes inward simply vi weeks. It’s a crazy, whirlwind vi weeks were nosotros remain upward late, struggle amongst our important others, as well as describe some of our pilus out. But inward the terminate it’s ever worth it! This fourth dimension to a greater extent than or less nosotros are planning a beautiful novel modern entry.

Not alone are nosotros tackling our sixth 1 room challenge, but nosotros are adding a whole novel degree of difficulty to the mix! This fourth dimension to a greater extent than or less I’m vii months important piece nosotros are starting. That agency ii things. One, my married adult man is stuck doing all of the heavy lifting as well as smelly icon on his own. Two, there’s a rattling existent run a hazard nosotros won’t instruct done. LOL. Fingers crossed infant doesn’t brand it early!

If you’re curious, hither are a few of the spaces we’ve completed inward the past:

Big Girl Bedroom Reveal

Guest Bedroom Reveal

Closet Reveal

Master Bedroom Reveal

Living Room

So what just are nosotros tackling this fourth dimension around?? About vi months agone nosotros moved into our novel home, affectionately known equally Green Acres. The showtime infinite nosotros renovated inward this dwelling was our Living Room, during the final 1 room challenge. We gave that infinite a beautiful contemporary design, as well as nosotros computer program to practise the same matter inward our novel modern entry equally well!

Here are some of the photos from when nosotros showtime moved in:

Linoleum floors, outdated lite fixtures, peach walls… there’s a lot inward this infinite that doesn’t tally my pattern style. Our plans are to transform this into a functional, modern mudroom past times changing the flooring, icon the walls (some of which is done already!), putting inward a novel modern forepart door, as well as creating storage. Here are the pattern plans:

BAHHH! I’m excited simply looking at these plans! Here are some of the highlights…

A new entry door is going to brand ALL of the divergence inward this space! More lite coming in, to a greater extent than contemporary design, as well as to a greater extent than curb appeal. This isn’t the exact door nosotros are getting, but it’s the closest I could uncovering to hand yous an idea! There are so many gorgeous designs available, it was hard to pick out a favourite, but I hope it’ll expect amazing!

And yous all know how much nosotros honey tiling! We couldn’t resist adding some beautiful tiles to our modern entry.

These faux forest tiles caught my optic correct away! We’re going to endeavor our mitt at a herringbone pattern (as inward the pattern board) on the flooring of the entry as well as I cry upward it’s going to expect amazing!

These rock tiles convey a beautiful slate expect to them! We’re going to endeavor our mitt at tiling our bench amongst them. I honey the non-traditional size of them as well as I’m hoping it actually lends some extra grapheme to the space!

Then no room of mine is ever consummate without plants! So I’m adding a few decorative features.

Loving the vibe as well as texture that a wood as well as concrete planter is going to add together to the room!

And yous know I can’t resist a beautiful dark planter!

And thus at that topographic point are the beautiful simulated ferns that nosotros demand to create total the planters! I’m trying my best amongst existent plants these days… but these are thus beautiful and so much easier to maintain! lol.

Since I’m an obsessive listing maker, here’s our modern entry 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 forest 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 simulated or existent plants


14. Install novel modern moulding

WISH United States LUCK!

There are a dyad of changes that we’ve made already, inward the final vi months that we’ve lived hither as well as I can’t hold back to exhibit yous side past times side week. Stay tuned! 

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

The Home Depot Canada / Jeffrey Court / Afloral

Check out the side past times side few weeks: 

Week 1 // Week 2 // Week 3