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Week 5: One Room Challenge
Touch ups and Hang Ups Exhausted! Week 5 of the One Room Challenge came with exhaustion! Last week’s challenges were focused on painting and light fixtures. Maybe it was all the thinking and tinkering that came with last week’s challenge, on top of the previous weeks, that brought on this feeling of lack luster performance….
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Week 4: One Room Challenge
Painting is my nemesis and I think the light fixture had it out for me too! Let’s chat paint stripes As a compromise to my daughter wanting a dragon mural on the wall, we agreed to stripes. However, those stripes didn’t agree to me! Actually, I went about applying the stripes all wrong. Take this…
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Week 1: One Room Challenge
A week spent sourcing and creating the mood… The Goal: Complete this bathroom within the 8 weeks designated for the One Room Challenge with sponsor Better Homes and Gardens. The Mission: Sourcing aka look for and purchase fixtures to include décor -making final design decisions. Captain’s Log: Guesteen Bathroom Update: I’ve changed my mind a…
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Teen Room Accent Wall
My First DI-trY and Lessons Learned Since my daughter is off visiting the OG’s (Original Grandparents), I decided to give her room an update. She’ll soon be a teenager…A TEENAGER! Insert tear drop in the eye. Pardon me as I gather myself. Now as I was saying, she’s growing up right before my eyes; and…
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Week 5: One Room Challenge
Touch ups and Hang Ups Exhausted! Week 5 of the One Room Challenge came with exhaustion! Last week’s challenges were focused on painting and light fixtures. Maybe it was all the thinking and tinkering that came with last week’s challenge, on top of the previous weeks, that brought on this feeling of lack luster performance….
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Week 4: One Room Challenge
Painting is my nemesis and I think the light fixture had it out for me too! Let’s chat paint stripes As a compromise to my daughter wanting a dragon mural on the wall, we agreed to stripes. However, those stripes didn’t agree to me! Actually, I went about applying the stripes all wrong. Take this…
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Week 3: One Room Challenge
Welcome to the 2021 Faucet Games Faucet Blues Faucet Blues: I literally wanted to cry trying to remove the pre-existing faucet’s hoses from the soon to be replaced faucet. My hands were sore from all the prodding and twisting -only for absolutely NOTHING to happen! Those jokers would not budge. Let’s add that my back…
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Week 2: One Room Challenge
mirrors, faucets and irritation… Oh My! We’re at week two out of eight for the One Room Challenge and we need to give the scoop on where things have landed. First, let’s quickly talk about the schmood (mood) of this bathroom. It’s a schmood The Mood The Mood: It’s a guest bathroom whose primary user…
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