Today is the day! This is kick-off week for the 6-week One Room Challengeâ„¢ (ORC). Yesterday, the featured designers revealed the rooms they intend to makeover as well as their plans. Today is the day that we guest participants get to do the same thing.
I have been quite excited about being a guest participant.…
For our first meeting with the Lowe's kitchen design team, Andy and I had to bring measurements of our kitchen and our wishlist for the project. We met with our project manager, Janet, and Karen, the team member who would translate our wishlist into their computer program in order to create the layout of our…
This week, I am going to talk about the kitchen again, specifically about Lowe's kitchen design.
We were snowed in on Tuesday. We got so much snow that even Andy took the day off. With him home all day, I was able to spend most of the day in M's room finishing up the prep work.…
We are still in the midst of M's room renovation, but can we talk about the kitchen instead? When I sat down to write this week's post about the bedroom renovation, I realized that there really is no news. Our optimistic deadline of having the room painted last weekend has come and gone. We are…
This week we are starting our first project of 2016. When we moved into Blake Hill House, Andy and I agreed that we should get the kids' rooms done as soon as possible. The two back bedrooms meant for our middle boys were completely unusable. During the time that we were repairing plaster and bringing…
Are you ready for some pictures of our new living room? Progress on this room felt excruciating slow, but the truth is, there was so much to do in this space, and we accomplished quite a lot in just a couple of months. For reference, here is the before picture:
Before
My chief complaints were that the…