For the next six weeks I will be a guest participant in the One Room Challenge! I’m super excited as this is the first year that I have participated, though I have been following along for quite some time watching all the amazing rooms that people design. And while I am not a designer, I do love to build, renew, and renovate spaces. So I’m pretty pumped to have the opportunity to contribute and hopefully inspire others to try new projects as well! Week 1 I’m focusing on my older son’s bedroom for the ORC and thought it would be fitting for week one to show you what I’m working…

  I love a gorgeous kitchen remodel as much as the next girl, but like many of you, I don’t have the heart (or the wallet) to gut, toss, and replace an entire kitchen! Especially if the layout is functional and the countertops are decent. Plus, the environment and such.  I have learned some easy and inexpensive ways to update your kitchen to make it look beautiful and brand new without re-mortgaging your house to do it! So what do you do when you want a renovated kitchen but don’t want to pay for it?? You work with what you’ve got, yo. And you do it yourself.  Below I’m going…

Oh, office spaces.  The one purpose you serve is to be an organized, useful space for people to do adulting.  But many times you fail us.  You collect papers, books, trinkets, dirty cups, old ice cream bowls, small children shark toys.  And here I am, just a girl, trying to solve world problems; building bookshelves for all those cluttered, badly behaving office spaces out there.  And I’m damn good too….(sing that last part to the beat of Warren G, otherwise that is just an unnecessary curse word in an admittedly unnecessary sentence).