Archive for month: April, 2015

ORC Week 4 – Setbacks

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I just had a feeling things were moving along a little too smoothly….

It’s week 4 of our One Room Challenge where we’re participating along with the 20 designers & over 150 bloggers in the linking event over at Calling it Home to transform a space in just 6 weeks. If you’ve been following along on our progress to complete our #DreamBedroom & #MasterBathRetreat, you’ll know that thus far in Week 1, Week 2 & Week 3, things have been moving along at a good pace.  But what challenge would be complete without a few setbacks right??  Well this seems to be our week for that across the board…. Read more

ORC Week 3: Colours, fixtures & finishes

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Happy Thursday! It’s week 3 and we’ve reached the half way point of our One Room Challenge!!

If you missed our previous updates, you can go back to read Week 1 & Week 2 where we shared the before of our entire master suite & the plans for our #MasterBathRetreat.

The bedroom space still looks much as it did last week, with the exception of the windows that have now been trimmed. We’ve also cleaned up a bit & removed all of the drywall pieces left from the wall that needed to be opened for the en-suite plumbing, which should happen next week. Read more

ORC Week 2: Creating a Master Bath Retreat

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We’ve made it to Week 2 of our One Room Challenge!

There’s nothing like a little time off work and a long weekend to give you the kick in the pants you need to get going on a reno project.  Last week, Kes and I were fortunate enough to be able to take a few vacation days ahead of the Easter long weekend which made for a ton of progress on our space so far. Read more

One Room Challenge: The Dream Bedroom

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Ok. Let’s try this thing again…

If you’re new here and joining us from Calling it Home – welcome! I’ll get to the fun stuff in a minute.  There’s just one thing I need to get off my chest first…

So I think it’s pretty clear at this point that we VASTLY overestimated our ability to blog regularly while undergoing a major renovation. Read more