Week Five | November 5 | The Homestretch
For the Fall 2020 One Room Challenge, I am giving my son’s bedroom a hygge-infused makeover. As a not-so-little boy but not-quite tween, this room needs to be adaptable, functional, and a great place for play. I’ll let you in on the inspiration board as well as plans for this multipurpose room where organization and storage are critical and coziness is the word of the day — everyday.
I hope you all had a very happy Halloween! I made a chameleon costume. We carved jack o’lanterns. And we had some candy, but we stayed home, lights out, and watched a movie which we all agreed was a lot of fun in the end!
With Halloween over we transitioned from pumpkins to gourds, and November, I am loving you! And now for the penultimate One Room Challenge update…
Lighting
In addition to the changes of the seasons, it’s been busy here in many, many ways! In a few days I’ll have more about the 2020 edition of The Nice List (but stop by my store for a sneak peek!). In the meantime, I’ve been working on lighting for this room.
A child’s room presents a special challenge when it comes to lighting. Most bedrooms don’t need a lot of light for different scenarios. You read. You sleep. You get dressed. The challenges aren’t all that great. But in a child’s room, play must also be a consideration, and those lighting needs change over time. So I am working to be particularly thoughtful about lighting in here.
I am still on the fence about the red lamps I bought off the FBMP. I have taken one apart and am trying to figure out how to modify it so that I like it more. Stay tuned for that! But another lamp has found its perfect mate! My father made this wooden lamp in middle school shop class sometime in the early 1960s. So it is era-appropriate for our house, it works beautifully, and topped with a new lamp shade, it is fantastic in this room! Hooray!
I also have some lights coming from a sponsor — ColorCord — which should arrive this week — I am crazy-excited about them!
The Bed
One of Bambino’s requests for his room was a hidden reading spot. He loves to hide, and a cozy reading nook sounds perfectly hygge to me! However, given all of the other space demands in the room, we had to get a little creative. Enter: the Book Nook Bed! Bambino already had a queen-sized bed, and this custom-made bed will have storage on one side and a cozy nook for reading on the other — all under the mattress.
The entire bed is cut and ready for assembly on the workshop deck, but we have to wait for the new rug to arrive before we can assemble it in the room. That should happen soon… I hope!
The Cleat Wall
I am absolutely in love with The Cleat Wall. Romano has created prototypes for several types of boxes and shelves to hang on the wall. Now it is a matter of identifying the treasures which will get their own nooks and building boxes or shelves to fit them. The boxes go together quickly and easily, and it’s all looking very, very cool!
The boxes and shelves hang from French cleats attached to the back, and they can be moved anywhere on the wall as needs change and adapt.
We just need another delivery of birch plywood to finish this project which should arrive tomorrow.
While we are waiting for rugs and some of the finishing touches, I also can start to hang the art. Usually that’s the last thing you do, but packages from another sponsor, Simple Prints, have arrived, and I am anxious to get started!
One more week! Will we make it by next Thursday? I’m not convinced, but we will do our best!
Week 6 | Nov 11 | Before & After
I’ll be sharing the how-to for all of our projects along the way as well as my favorite shopping sources for all things vintage and new.
Thanks to Linda of The One Room Challenge for organizing the One Room Challenge! Thanks also to Better Homes and Gardens, the ORC media sponsor. On Instagram, check out #oneroomchallenge and #bhgorc to see all of the amazing room reveals, or visit the One Room Challenge Blog where you’ll find the link-up to all of the participating blogs. There are rooms of every kind, aesthetic, and design. It is an amazing thing to explore and get inspiration!
You can follow me on Instagram or like Mid Modern Mama on Facebook for tips, tricks, and sneak peeks along the way, too.
Ok. Gotta get back to work! Last week — here we go!
Ciao!
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