Wow, we are coming down the home stretch here with the One Room Challenge. In case you are reading this for the first time, I entered the One Room Challenge as a guest participant along with a couple of hundred other guest designers, bloggers, and home enthusiast who wanted to get a design or decor project completed in their home or a clients home in a six week time frame.
The event occurs twice per year in the fall and spring. There are special invitation only participants that are working on amazing projects and Guest Participants that register and voluntarily take on a design project, like myself. You can binge read / scroll week 1, week 2, week 3, and week 4.
For my ORC I have taken on the task of updating my daughter’s bedroom. It was waaaaay past its toddler prime years. Agreeing on a design direction with a teen has been a challenge, but it is coming along really well. My biggest hurdle during this challenge has been my health and being well enough for more than a day or two at a time to accomplish what needs to be done.
Don’t let anyone fool you, but decorating is very physically challenging and not for the faint of heart. Sourcing small accessory items from local retailers, standing in lines to purchase or return and then hauling all of the merchandise into the home and styling, hanging, ironing, and disposing of packaging is all very labor intensive and apart of the many task a client does not see.
All of this physically exhausting work that is not shown on HGTV is what makes our full service design fees worth our weight in gold. All of these activities are performed behind the scenes on tv, but by other designers or stylist, or set decorators and a team of other people not just the face(s) of the show.
As a reminder this is the concept board for Miss K’s Urban Industrial Teen Bedroom.
We are adding in final touches, creating a DIY wall of Miss K’s favorite inspirational quotes, hanging drapes, ironing sheets, and will be styling our little hearts out to photograph this room in just a few days.
Thank you to the One Room Challenge and the official sponsor Better Homes and Gardens.
Don’t forget to follow along with the other official Sponsored and Guest participants to see how their One Room Challenge projects are progressing.
I’ll see you back here, next week for the big reveal of my One Room Challenge Urban Industrial Teen Girl Bedroom.
