It’s time for our One Room Challenge, Week 3 progress report.
Over the span of six weeks, 20 featured bloggers and many guest participants will completely make over a space in their home. This week, week 3, marks our half way point!
Week 1: Eclectic Farmhouse Foyer Plan
Week 2: Magnet Wall and Product Purchases
This week was a week filled with paint. White paint!
I painted the alphabet magnets (affiliate link) for the magnet wall and completed painting the door and trim work.
It might not look like we accomplished much this week but I’ll tell you painting the trim took quite a bit of time. I had to do 4 coats on the baluster for even coverage and I painted the baseboard trim up the stair well twice. Tack on all the baseboard, the door, and the walk through door way trim and it might make more sense that it took me all week to accomplish only half of the painting.
Tonight we’re beginning the process of painting the walls and ceiling in the foyer and all the way up the stairs.
Tomorrow I plan to pick up Minwax Classic Black PolyShades (affiliate link) for the stair rail as well as paint for the floor. I think we’ve settled on a rather surprising color combo which I am a little bit nervous about but also in love with.
Once the floor and walls are painted I have no doubt this room is going to look so fresh and clean.
So here’s where we stand on our to do list:
Paint door interior.- Stain stair railing.
- Paint walls
and trim. - Sand and paint tile patterned floor.
- Install rug stair runner – hopefully!
Install inset feature wall.- Hang live edge wood shelf and mirror on wall beside stairs.
- Decorate with art and accessories.
- Swap out light fixture.
We still have our work cut out for us but I’m confident we CAN get it done!
Come back next Thursday for the latest update and don’t forget to stop in on November 10th for the final reveal!
Want to see how the other ORC rooms are progressing? Stop over and browse the ORC – Week 3 link party.
it really is amazing what paint can do! so fresh looking!
The power of paint never ceases to amaze me!
What a neat space! Painting trim takes forever! I’m sure you’re glad to have that done!
So glad to have the trim painted! Painting the walls took much less time. My husband and I knocked that out last night.
I can’t wait to see those two colors together! Everything is coming together nicely!
Thanks Crystal! I’m really excited albeit a bit nervous about the color combo. The color cards look amazing laying on the ground so hopefully the paint and design look just as awesome.
I’ll be painting some trim at my parents’ house soon–I bet you’re glad to be done with that! Looks great!
So glad to be done. Painting trim is such a tedious task but so worth it when it’s all said and done.
This is looking great! Love the magnetic wall! Check out my painted floor post http://thebricknests.com/transforming-floors-with-paint-power/
I think this space is going to look amazing!
Thank you Jillian. I’ll be sure to stop over. We sanded the floors this evening and I may try to get the first coat of paint on them tomorrow. Woohoo! We picked up Valspar porch and floor paint so here’s hoping it holds up to foot traffic.
It’s starting to shape up! Can’t wait to see it next week!
Thanks Suzanne! You and me both! I’m really excited to see how the painted floors come out.
What an awesome foyer! The white paint looks awesome!!!
Thanks Tara! We decided to join the challenge a few days before it started so I picked the smallest unfinished space in the house. Even that has proven to be a ton of work. Next up is our living room (which will be my craft room/office), the mudroom, and our sunroom. We’ve just been pecking away at the renovation as time and money allows. One day it will all be done. And oh what a glorious day that will be!
Hey cut it out you’re making me tired reading about all the work you’ve been doing.So glad for you to have gotten walls painted last night, another item to check off
Must have been this challenge that’s had me doing little improvements around our house.Hope what I do looks half as awesome as what you’ve been doing. Just think now you can admire your hard work all winter, won’t that be comforting?
Have wonderful weekend
🙂 So glad hubby was on board with tackling this project. It will be nice to have another room checked off the list.
Hey cut it out you’re making me tired reading about all the work you’ve been doing.So glad for you to have gotten walls painted last night, another item to check off
Must have been this challenge that’s had me doing little improvements around our house.Hope what I do looks half as awesome as what you’ve been doing. Just think now you can admire your hard work all winter, won’t that be comforting?
Have wonderful weekend
LOVE THE WALL, YOUR COLOR CHOICES ARE SO PRETTY AND SOFT.
MARIA
jessica, I really do love that combination of pink and gold…think it’ll be very sophisticated, yet calm and fresh. Ooooh…can’t wait to see it. And while white paint is not so exciting, it sure provides a great palette.
Looking forward to next week.
Hugs, Lynn
🙂 Thank you Lynn. My husband even okayed the colors! I think the warmness and deepness of the gold balances out the femininity of the blush enough to make it seem pretty neutral! I’m hoping it really warms up the space because I don’t want the white walls to make it feel too sterile.
painting trim takes foreverrrr but it looks great!
Oh, those colors!! I dream of a space where I can add those girly elements, but it doesn’t quite work in our house of testosterone! I love seeing these changes and can’t wait to see the final reveal!
The boys win in our house too. I was a little shocked that my husband approved the paint colors but I think they read fairly neutral paired together, and they will hopefully warm up the space quite a bit!
Painting trim is EXHAUSTING! Such hard work, but so worth it in the end. 🙂
Good job! Painting is laborious, but such a great way to breathe new life into a space! It’s looking really good in there!
It’s looking good! Can’t wait to see it finished!!
Thanks Erin!
I love the pink…of course! And I’m dying to see how you are doing the runner. I’m in the process of doing this myself.
I just ordered a 22′ sisal runner today!
I can attest to how time consuming painting trim is! I’ve started doing my entire house and it’s quite the job! It’s looking great!