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One Room Challenge Spring 2017 / Week One / Home Office & Guest Room

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AHHH, it is here, the first ORC of 2017, it One Room Challenge Week One in case you’ve been hiding under a rock! (Like Me-more about that done below). If you haven’t heard, ORC stands for the One Room Challenge. A challenge that designers and bloggers take one to stress themselves out even more for the following 6 weeks. But, first, let’s regroup. If you have been to my little corner of the web before you might have noticed that I have not posted in 35 days. If you are knew here, WELCOME, and this might be a little introduction to my crazy mind.

Week one of the One Room Challenge for 2017. 20 design bloggers have 6 weeks to makeover a space.

 

Well, I took on a 40 day challenge of no blogging and limiting my social media. Now, I am not crazy, like I checked into social media but didn’t post more than a couple times and definitely didn’t blog. Like at all! At the same time I took on the 40 bags 40 days challenge, a way to simplify my home, my life, myself. Elimating the blog was part of it. The goal was to see a couple things. Am I to consumed by the blog? Does it take time away from my family and work?

Okay, so you are like, ummm, Keki! You are 5 days early. I KNOW!!! But the ORC started and I don’t want to miss it. So I can’t say I failed because well, I didn’t. I didn’t fail by coming in 5 days early cause I learned a lot the last 35 days and that won’t change over the next 4-5 days. What did I learn? Well, tune in Friday for that post, cause today is all about the ORC!! WOOT WOOT!!

One Room Challenge Week 1 – Spring 2017

The ORC is a six week challenge that started by Calling It Home where twenty design bloggers complete an entire space in six weeks. Now, I have heard some start before the first week to give themselves a head start, well, I am not that person. The space I have picked is still very raw. My husbands office / guest room. It hasn’t been touched since we bought our home and became a dumping ground for extra items that no longer worked in the house. Well, that no more. Here is what I plan to do, in six weeks, hopefully.

1. Declutter and Clean It Out

Since the closet and room became a dumping ground, I will use the 40 Bags 40 Day challenge in this space the most. Throw out, donate, sell a majority of items in the space.

One room challenge Week 1 Home Office and Guest Room makeover

  • Two closets, my goal is 7 bags for donation for each closet.
  • Sell furniture I have bought that I never actually used
  • Take everything out of the room and start with a clean slate

2. Paint

The entire room from baseboards to ceiling, the interior closet needs a fresh coat of paint and the bed!

Photo

  • Paint Color Options: Light gray whites of course
  • Closets white
  • YUP, I have a day bed in there that I am going to take to the next level.

3. Shop

The best part of the challenge. Shop for the items on my design board. From new bedding to a desk, accessories and lighting.

photo of mood board

4. Style and stage while I Wait

Wait for what? you know the weeks it takes for things to get delivered or to catch up on paint projects.

One room challenge Week 1 Home Office and Guest Room makeover

One room challenge Week 1 Home Office and Guest Room makeover

So go ahead and follow along in everyone’s room makeovers by following the official hashtag #oneroomchallenge @oneroomchallenge. EEEEK, lets hope I can pull this one off.

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  1. robin Rue says

    That sounds like a challenge I should try….well obviously not the no blogging part, but I would love to pick a room and totally declutter it!

  4. Jessi Joachim says

    I love that you focus on one room. Too many times I have tried to focus on the whole house and it fails miserably! Breaking it down room by room is an awesome idea.

  5. Gina says

    I didn’t hear about the 40 day challenge but I took break too on blog post and purging lots of stuff. I love a room like this so many possibilities. It will be a great transformation.

  6. Heather says

    I have been off social media and blogging for a large portion of the past month, and it has been pretty nice actually 🙂 Good luck on your challenge! I feel like I am constantly trying to pare down, but perhaps I need to figure out a way to not let new stuff take its place a couple months later…

  7. Kori says

    What an awesome challenge concept! It makes it seem so much easier and manageable when it comes to cleaning.

  9. Carolyn says

    I love the ORC! I can’t wait to follow along with you. It is so motivating. I actually just changed all the lighting on my first floor and bought paint for my dining room. I am going to take the next 6 weeks and try to use it as a timeline to get a lot of my decorating projects completed too.

  10. Stacey says

    I love this challenge! I cannot wait to see your results.
    I have a office/guest room that needs an overhaul! Maybe I will get some ideas! Good luck!

  13. Kim says

    You’ll definitely be able to pull this off! It comes at perfect timing with Spring Break. I love a challenge too.

  14. karen says

    What a great challenge! I kinda did something like this, but not as structured as your ORC. We also used to have a guest room (never used) so transformed it into my office! Yay!

  15. lydia says

    I am already such an organized person so I would probably have no use for this challenge buyt you did great! I always feel so much more productive in a clean and organized space

  16. Blythe Alpern says

    The ORC sounds like so much fun. It’s a great way to tackle a project without going overboard. Last year I spent time decluttering and I’m thinking about doing it again. I have so many items from when I was a kid that I never look at and I’m wondering if I really need to keep them. Can’t wait to see how the room turns out at the end of the challenge.