One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

Welcome dorsum to my cupboard renovation! Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating in the One Room Challenge hosted by Calling it Home (once again!). The challenge is to completely redesign whatever infinite inward your abode inward solely 5 brusk weeks, too and hence to part the large divulge on calendar week 6. As nosotros know from our daughter’s Big Girl Bedroom too our Guest Bedroom transformations, it is definitely a challenge! We are solely 1 calendar week in, but I’m already feeling the pressure. Starting a Renovation Project is a lot of work!

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

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Last calendar week I was SO excited to part our pattern plans for my dream closet (despite non having a ton of infinite available!). This calendar week nosotros started the project, too I didn’t realize just how much piece of work it was going to be.

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

Step 1 – purge!!! I spent 1 black taking every. last. item. out of my cupboard too sorting them. Keep, give away, or throw away. At the destination of the twenty-four hours I had 2 bins for of “keeps”, 1 garbage purse total of “throw aways”, too FOUR garbage bags of “give aways”. That’s FIVE bags total of wearing clothing that I purged from from closet. Who out at that spot is proud of me?! lol.

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

And too hence the fun move started: demo!

There are a few basic tools that you need to foremost a renovation – if you lot possess got these 6 basics inward your tool bag, you lot tin give the sack foremost getting muddy too respect out what’s behind those walls!

6 Simple Tools for Starting a Renovation Project:

Hammer

Pry Bar

X-Acto Knife

Screwdriver

Drill

Drywall Saw

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

When you lot are starting renos, work a screwdriver to withdraw shelving, vents, outlets, etc too prep the space. It tin give the sack live easier to larn into corners than a drill. I prefer the handheld tools when working amongst electrical outlets.

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

The X-Acto knife tin give the sack live used to assist withdraw the trim down from the wall. It helps if at that spot is caulking or pigment sticking the mouldings inward place. Using the knife volition assist relieve the mouldings if you lot desire to reuse them later.

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

Pry bars tin give the sack too hence live used to withdraw all of the mouldings amongst the assist of the hammer! Just hammer it inward too pry it off.

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

When you’re ripping off drywall, work your hammer betwixt the studs to rip out drywall inward sections. You tin give the sack work the drywall saw to brand to a greater extent than exact cuts when needed. When the drywall is removed, work your drill to withdraw the screws that may live left inward the studs from hanging the drywall.

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

If you lot are removing carpet, only rip it out, too work the pry bar 1 time again to pry upward the carpet nail strips.

That’s actually everything you lot take for starting a renovation project. The basics. H5N1 distich hours, too half-dozen tools later, you lot possess got a blank slate to piece of work with!

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

We also spent to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension this calendar week removing the shower that was attached to our primary chamber closet. Last calendar week I shared how nosotros are planning to reframe the cupboard too brand room for a larger shower. It volition live a long fourth dimension until our novel shower starts to possess got shape but I’m already excited!

Last calendar week I shared that I volition live participating inward One Room Challenge {Week Two} – Starting a Renovation Project

The final matter nosotros did was closed off the H2O provide too alter the pipes inward training for moving the H2O lines (for the novel shower). This calendar week nosotros are hoping to reframe the cupboard too motion the H2O lines. There are also a distich of things that take to live moved because of the changed nosotros are making. The entrance to our attic on the ceiling needs to live moved, every bit good every bit the air vents on the floor. Both sit down inward a higher identify a below a novel wardrobe that volition live moving into the space… hence I gauge nosotros only made to a greater extent than piece of work for ourselves… lol. I croak on telling myself it’ll live worth it!

Here’s how nosotros are doing on our lengthy Master Bedroom Closet To-Do List: