Hex tile pattern stacked in rows

Behind the reveal: Creating a hex tile pattern floor

First of all I just wanted to say thank you so much for the overwhelmingly positive comments on last week’s One Room Challenge reveal post as well as all the love on facebook, & instagram, etc.  We really do appreciate it! We received so much feedback on our hex tile floors, we thought we’d share some details and a […]

ORC Week 5: Master Bath Retreat – the final push

We’re very late with our update this week. It’s week 5 of our One Room Challenge which means there’s only ONE WEEK LEFT!! It’s serious crunch time and after the setbacks last week we’re having to make some adjustments to the plan.

ORC Week 4 – Setbacks

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 […]

ORC Week 3: Colours, fixtures & finishes

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 […]

ORC Week 2: Creating a Master Bath Retreat

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 […]

One Room Challenge: The Dream Bedroom

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 […]

One Room Challenge Week 5: Getting back on track

We’re back with week 5 and after our setback a couple of weeks ago we’re finally on our way to getting this One Room Challenge back on track.  That said, we’ve still got a LONG way to go to make our six week deadline.

Tiling

When tiling goes wrong…

Soooo we’ve hit a setback with the tiling for Operation Organized Entryway. If you follow us on Instagram, you might have already seen this. Remember our beautiful honed grey basalt tile that I love and was ranting & raving over in our last post?? Yea….well…. here’s how it looked the next day once the tiles […]

Tile levelling system

One Room Challenge Week 3: Getting down & dirty with tiles

We’re into week 3 of 6 in our One Room Challenge which means we’re right at the half way mark. Aaaaannd as I write that I’m starting to feel the pressure. Last week was a bit anti-climactic with all of the researching, material sourcing & shopping but this week we really got to work.

One Room Challenge Week 2: Multi-tasking & material sourcing

Well it’s Week 2 of the One Room Challenge where we’re transforming one room in our house over the next 6 weeks along with the 20 chosen design bloggers as well as the 96 other bloggers playing along in the linkup rounds over at Calling It Home. In Week 1, we started things off by […]