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One Room Challenge Week 4 | The Scary Bathroom

Living & Decor, Maintenance, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 24, 2018687Views 0Likes 10Comments

Finally, we are getting somewhere in The Scary Bathroom. It is starting to look less like a trash pit and more like an actual bathroom, you know, where people take showers and get ready for work and stuff. Well, perhaps I spoke out of turn. However, the room does seem full of possibility again. The Scary Bathroom:…

One Room Challenge Week 3 | The Scary Bathroom

Living & Decor, Maintenance, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 17, 2018303Views 0Likes 9Comments

Hello, week three anxiety. I've been expecting you. Week three of the One Room Challenge is typically when I start getting antsy about finishing on time. The problem is that I am still destroying things when I feel as if I should be putting it all back together by now. It is my typical method…

One Room Challenge Week 2 | The Scary Bathroom

Living & Decor, Maintenance, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 11, 2018484Views 0Likes 22Comments

It's week two, and I am already cutting my losses. I'm either getting smarter, or I am advancing through the stages of One Room Challenge panic at a faster rate than usual. Either way, six hours and only one surface into skim coating the bathroom walls, I had the following thought, I need to pay someone…

Fall 2018 One Room Challenge: Week 1

Living & Decor, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 4, 2018811Views 0Likes 38Comments

Last Friday, I was not sure if we would participate in this round of the One Room Challenge. Our spring project went from bad to worse, and I just wasn't sure I had it in me to tackle another project right now. After a lot of soul-searching, I decided that I like the punishment of…

You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Living & Decor, Respectful RenovationSeptember 11, 2018876Views 0Likes 6Comments

About a month ago, I wrote an update on our upstairs bathroom remodel. To recap: after a couple of disappointing contractor visits and bids, I decided to call Janet, our previous project manager at Lowe's. You may recall that in 2016 we hired Lowe's Remodeling Services for our gut kitchen renovation. After that phone call, I…

The Upstairs Bathroom: What’s Happening?

Living & Decor, Respectful RenovationAugust 9, 2018347Views 0Likes 11Comments

In my day-to-day life, no news almost always mean good news. However, in the home reno world, no news means nothing is happening. At the end of last year, Andy and I considered an easy refresh of the upstairs bathroom. However, once we started dreaming, we decided that maybe moving forward with the full remodel…