One Room Challenge: Week 6. Curtains, Tables, & Flamingos, OH MY!
So here I sit in western Wyoming in a car that is shaking from the wind blowing crazy around us at a campsite we reserved but are going to leave because there's a chance we will all blow away down the canyon. And that's saying a lot since we all gained the Covid-19.
It’s Week 6 of the One Room Challenge and we’ve done some work in the past few weeks. That’s all we’ve been doing as we were working 12-14 hour days trying to finish our room(s) before we left on our 6 week cross country road trip adventure extravaganza.
Okay this blue table- bought it for $40 on CL and finally finished sanding and painting it. So much sanding. Looks pretty sweet now though...especially next to those two new pieces of art I got- they are a cynaotype which uses a photo negative and a chemical process in the sun to achieve the look- no ink! Up close it’s on water color paper and looks super neat.
Yes, I just used the word neat.
Fabric for the dining room curtains finally came. I’m in love with this fabric from Pierre Frey- the perfect mix of some old tradition with modern built in. Plus that red!
I also finally decided on living room curtains. Covid really put me through the curtain ringer here. Almost as stressful as getting Covid and being on a ventilator, I’m sure.
My original LR curtain plan was these blue and red/pink numbers from Anthropologie. But then it turned out the blue was really more a of a green, and that wasn’t what I was going for, so back they went.
See? This is definitely green.
I wanted something blue and red- so found a bunch of different potential fabrics from spoon flower that I ordered samples of. Except because of Covid I didn’t get the samples in time. I can’t even list all the different fabrics I was interested in, but couldn’t get because of Covid.
I ordered these plain blue ones as backup but they were just too plain and boring and who wants to be boring?
I was on a crane kick from the crane spoon flower fabric I saw, so I searched for crane fabric and came across this Genevieve Gorder fabric. So many fun colors. I ordered it in blue and black and figured I’d decide when it got here. The blue arrived first- I loved the pattern but something just seemed off. So I started looking for other options online.
And then the black and white crane curtains came and saved the day and ended my obsessive compulsive curtain researching.
Once again, some amazing styling going on in those bookshelves. RIP my poor dead computer.
Because of Covid and everything being closed, I made and hemmed all the curtains for dining and living room by myself. Please note my definition of “made” is very loose. I got some fabric hemming tape off amazon and hemmed those suckers all the way around. I then used curtain clips to connect them. It was super easy but time consuming.
But free, so there’s that. I saved so much money “sewing” my own curtains I’m basically making money over here. I think that’s how that works?
Remember the mudroom paint color conundrum? I couldn’t handle the color and neither could my coworker, so we painted it black as originally planned. She felt so strongly about it she offered to help me paint it. I felt so sick of painting, that I took her up on it.
But realized I didn’t take a picture of it black so you’ll have to wait for the end product since I am currently sitting in the middle of Wyoming.
Okay phew. That was a lot of talk about curtains and fabric. But all the obsessing was worth it because both sets of curtains really make the rooms. Along with all the other stuff.
Next week I’ll get into the process behind the fireplace tile and some finishing touches projects.
Oh yes, there was a big box on the fireplace a few weeks back. This is George, and George lived in that box. You might be disappointed because you’re like, “seriously?! George?!” We were waiting for George??!
George is getting a little makeover, and here’s a little sneak peek of his makeover. You didn’t think I was going to design a room in our new house and not involve some flamingos, did you?
I painted those flamingos, thank you very much. You can do anything you put your mind to and have google to look it up.
Thank you so much for following along this journey with us. We sort of suck at documenting it, but we are trying.
As always, don’t forget to check out the other amazing rooms being transformed during the One Room Challenge. There’s some cool stuff going on!!