One Room Challenge: Week Five
Gretchen Rose
It is week five of the Better Homes & Gardens One Room Challenge, and things are finally happening! Last week I shared all the details on my DIY Picture Frame Molding (read here), as well as some plans for the next few weeks.
THE ELECTRICIANS ARE HERE! You know what that means?!?! I will finally get my gorgeous chandelier from Sazerac Stitches installed! If you read my earlier posts, you will already know that we do not have existing overhead lighting, so the electricians had to do a little more work in order to get this beauty hung. Before they can hang the light fixture, they will install the ceiling medallion I scored from Alcott & Bentley, a local lighting store with a seriously good inventory of unique pieces. I needed a medallion approximately 30” in diameter, and found something perfect for my design!
Y’all… I have wanted a chandelier (or any overhead lighting) in here since we moved in!
Hopefully by the end of the day today, we will have power turned back on for the ORC room, a ceiling medallion, and a chandelier up!
I was waiting to paint the room until the electricians finished up, since we weren’t sure where in the drywall they would be cutting in order to get the wiring situated. Since all of that is happening today, I am optimistically planning to paint tomorrow (at least start).
We decided on a layout for the room (it changed a few times), curtains were selected and have arrived, and overall I am just really excited that it is starting to look like a well-designed room instead of a storage space!
You may also have seen on Instagram that we have had a few bathroom/plumbing issues, so that is an entirely different project that I am working on as well (read about that here). When it rains, it pours, am I right?
She is up and she is fabulous.
To recap:
Chandelier and medallion today. While electricians are here (we used Mr. Electric and have zero complaints), they will be installing an exhaust fan for one of the bathrooms too.
Tomorrow I hope to start painting- this needs to be done by end of the weekend!
Painting is somewhere between barely started and finished by the time this post goes live! Paint from Clare Paint, I will share every detail next week!
Next week, wallpaper?!?! Will be my first time…
That is all for now! Hope you enjoy this quick update and a few more sneak peeks! See you next week!
Gretchen Rose
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