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ORC Spring 2025 – Week 2 – 4
Here is my round up of my week 2-4 progress. Life was hectic so I did not get around to uploading my ORC progress for week 2 or 3 so we will combined it here. Here’s a list of the items I want to complete during this ORC. Week 2: All I did was hang…
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ORC Spring 2025: Mini Projects
Hi Everyone! Welcome back! If it’s your first time, get to know me first! This will be my 3rd ORC Challenge, more about that in a bit. What’s the One Room Challenge? The One Room Challenge® (ORC) is an 8 week challenge to transform one room of your own choosing. It’s not a competition but rather a…
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DIY Basement Bathroom: Rebuild
Quick recap: our basement bathroom was completed and then it was not! Full details on our DIY Basement Bathroom disaster here. We tore out the tile and had the back water valve re-installed (correctly this time). We closed back up the floor, used self leveler to prep for tiling and installed new tiled. Tiling was…
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DIY Basement Bathroom Disaster!
We bought our current home in December 2021. We immediately began making it our own, by giving it a fresh paint job in the colour Snowbound by Sherwin Williams. Besides painting, the first thing on our to do list was create a basement bathroom! The basement is our family hangout area and also where our…
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ORC Week 8: Entry Way Reveal!
We are here! Not 100% complete, I would say about 85% complete, but I am going to post anyways because my last ORC challenge reveal is still loading, lol. Before we do the reveal, let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. As a family of 6, storage was definitely needed. In addition to storage…
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ORC Week 7: Werk-ing!
Oh my gosh… there is one week left! We got a lot done this week… here’s the recap. We grouted my gorgeous herringbone floor! I am completely in love, I used Customer Building Products Grout in the color Truffle. I would classify it as beginner friendly, I have only used pre-mixed grout in the pass…
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ORC Week 6: Tiling is Not for the Weak of Heart
Two weeks left and still so much to do. Installing the tile in a herringbone pattern was definitely a task and between my 9-5, 4 kids, hubby and basement rebuild… I have been exhausted. I completed the last tile today. I had plans to paint the shoe cabinet and inside the closet today in hopes…
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ORC Week 5: Preparation is Key
It’s week five and I am feeling good! Although not much happened this week progress was made. The prep for the tile was completed and fitting the shoe storage solution was also accomplished. ORC – Spring 2023 Posts Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6…
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ORC Week 4: Demolition Is “Easy”
It’s week 4 and I am feeling pretty darn good about my progress! Keep reading to see what happened this week! What’s the One Room Challenge? The One Room Challenge® (ORC) is an 8 week challenge for designers and DIYers alike to transform one room of their choosing into their wildest dreams. It’s not a competition…
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ORC Week 3: Finalizing the Plan
It’s week 3 and still no demo as yet. But I wanted to share a real life picture of the entryway/mudroom so you can all see why it’s not currently working for my family. We are a family of 6, and as mentioned before have 3 school aged children. One thing we are definitely missing…
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ORC Week 2: To Wallpaper or Not to Wallpaper
It’s week 2 and no physical work has begun on the Foyer. Our basement flooded last week during a freak ice storm we had here, which caused us to lose power for several hours back battery died, etc etc. So given that we have a lot of people using our entry handling the fixing up…
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ORC Spring 2023 Week 1: Entry Way Renovation
Hi Everyone! Welcome back! If it’s your first time, get to know me first! Here we go again with another one room challenge! I am still not quite finish my first one room challenge (check it out here), but in true Capricorn fashion here I go tackling another project! As the title gave away… I’ll…
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