ONE ROOM CHALLENGE: SPRING 2020 – WEEK 6

Welcome to week 6 of One Room Challenge. I’m posting my upgrade on here after a 2 week hiatus because my heart was heavy from the recent world events and last week focusing on anything other than the Black Lives Matter movement seemed gravely wrong. I also wanted to thank the ORC team for cancelling week 5 update to “pause” and take the time to reflect and learn and show solidarity to the BLM movement. It was truly a commendable step.

To be honest, the progress has been quite slow since my week 3 update.

Here’s what I accomplished by week 3:

• Clear out the guestroom (work in progress)
• Caulk the crown mouldings that are in a very bad condition
• An accent rug
• A night stand
• A lamp for the night stand
• An accent chair and/or bench
• Wall Art
• Accent plants
• Install a door
• Possibly a light fixture?
• Set the room up

And by week 6 I have completed the following:

• Cleared out the guestroom.
• Got the accent chair, the bench, and the plant.
• Because of the current situation, I decided to skip the light fixture.
• Somewhat set up the room but I will do the final reveal on week 8.

As of week 4, my plan was to finish the guestroom which I did (to some extent) and move on to the bathroom. I started working on the bathroom last weekend and so far this is what I’ve completed:

• Paint the walls off white
• Paint the vanity pure white
• Change the vanity handles
• Change the mirror
• Add a dramatic rug
• Add a statement wall art
• Add a few gold accessories

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Painting the bathroom and the vanity was the biggest job for this next step of the project so finishing it, was a huge relief. I used the Dulux kitchen and bath paint for the wall. For the cabinet, I used BEHR Interior/Exterior Alkyd Satin Enamel, Melamine Finish Paint from Home Depot and didn’t need to use any primer for either. This was actually my first paint job and I am super proud of myself for that! 🙂 It truly gave me confidence to take up more DIY in the future. As I’ve mentioned in the beginning that I didn’t want to spend much for this project so even though the vanity in this bathroom is in a very bad condition (see before photos), I didn’t want to replace it instead I refreshed it with some paint. Next thing I did was changing the mirror. I repurposed the bathroom mirror in my kitchen and used a $40 mirror in the bathroom that I had picked up from Jysk before the quarantine.

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Now that the painting is out of the way, I can focus on the small details over the next 2 weeks until the big reveal.

You can read all other One Room Challenge participants’ posts here. Official media partner for the ORC is Better Homes and Gardens.

Follow along for visual live updates on my insta stories and I will catch you all again next Thursday! Have a great weekend!