On Tuesday, I announced our guest participation in the One Room Challenge. We will be tackling the transformation of Emily’s room from nursery to toddler room!
So – a quick recap – what is the One Room Challenge?
It happens two times each year – in the fall and the spring – where 20 designers and lots of guests choose one room to transform over a period of 6 weeks. We each share our progress as we go along, as well as tips on what we are doing. We are doing all of the renovations and building the furniture ourselves, so a six week deadline might be a little ambitious with a toddler involved. The only way we will know is if we try!
So with my previous post, Home Renovation Under Way, we were introduced to Emily’s Room. We have the ugly carpets, the scattered storage, the toy mess, etc.
The Transformation
As I mentioned previously, Emily was excited to help us transform her room. She can’t wait to help “tear up” her room and wanted to be a part of the designing process.
Meet Emily!
She has helped me put together quite the design for her room. Check out our inspiration board from Pinterest at the bottom of the post.
The main thing she was interested in is that awesome cabin bed featured at the top of the board. This one is from Restoration Hardware, but I hope to build a replica using some plans I have come across throughout my furniture building adventures. She loves the idea of a cabin themed room, but with a little girl flair!
The first steps, we will be tackling this week. In all honesty, this involves actually printing out the plan, locating all of my tools in our mess of a garage, clearing out that mess for a project, and getting materials for the cabin bed.
That cabin bed is what I am anticipating will take me the longest.
Ripping up carpet? Easy. Laying down engineered hardwood? Piece of cake. Painting the walls? No problem. Even planking a wall I do not anticipate to be much difficulty. However, the tiny little details of this cabin bed will likely be my struggle bus. So, I will probably get that started first – make sure I can actually get it moving and, once it’s in motion comfortably, I will transform the floors and walls.
We will be using hand scraped acacia engineered hardwood from Lowe’s on the flooring, planking an accent wall with a natural patina looking ship lap, and transforming the color scheme to a dusty rose and gray with walls and decorations. So, our order of operations:
- Print out the cabin bed plans and identify my tools and material needs.
- Find my tools!
- Clear out the garage as my furniture work space (honestly this will probably coincide with finding my tools).
- Purchase materials for cabin bed, a little more underlayment for the flooring, and plank wall.
- Start building the cabin bed.
- Rip up floors.
- Paint room.
- Install new flooring.
- Plank the wall. (Steps 8 and 9 might flip depending on how this goes).
- Finish building cabin bed.
- Move furniture back in.
- Decorate!
So there we go – 12 simple steps to completely transforming Emily’s room.
Easy, right? (Yeah right!)
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