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The Breakfast Nook: One Room Challenge Week 2

Living & Decor, Maintenance, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 12, 2017458Views 0Likes 20Comments

This week's crisis of faith is brought to you by an on-line paint visualizer. Monday, was all about progress progress progress. I felt fantastic. After a full day of work, I finished priming the walls. I thought to myself; This project is going to be a piece of cake. And the universe smiled, patted me on the…

The Breakfast Nook: One Room Challenge Week 1

Living & Decor, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationOctober 5, 2017992Views 0Likes 40Comments

The calendar goes 'round and 'round, and here we are back in October, Week 1 of the fall One Room Challenge™. I feel like we are still recovering from the spring ORC. Remember way back in May when we worked like dogs to get the library finished on time? All that blood, sweat, and tears…

Post One Room Challenge Collapse & Some Updates

One Room ChallengeMay 25, 2017222Views 0Likes 6Comments

I am back after an unplanned blog break. The intense six weeks of the One Room Challenge™ ended directly before my son's college graduation, a very sleep-deprived 48-hour running adventure in Canada, followed by watching my daughter compete at States for gymnastics. Since then, this has pretty much been me. via If I needed confirmation that I am…

The Library: ORC – The Budget Breakdown & Sources

Living & Decor, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationMay 13, 2017236Views 0Likes 7Comments

Wowie! Thank you for all of the lovely comments about the big library reveal. I woke up Friday feeling aimless. Without a goal, I pretty much just walked up and down the stairs forgetting why I did. If it is not apparent from past posts, rest does not really suit my personality. I could be persuaded…

The Library: One Room Challenge Week 6

Living & Decor, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationMay 11, 20171KViews 0Likes 52Comments

Today is the day! Good grief! It has been six l o n g weeks. Yesterday, I finally had to stop working in the library and simply move forward with the project as it was. I realized that I could not make the library better in two days time, but I could certainly make it worse.…

The Library: One Room Challenge Week 5

Maintenance, One Room Challenge, Respectful RenovationMay 4, 2017497Views 0Likes 27Comments

I have decided not to write a typical week 5 post. You know and I know how week 5 is going. It's nuts! There's too much work and too little week. We are pounding coffee like it's our job, and it is far too easy to get sucked into the stress of it all. Instead,…