For the Spring 2023 One Room Challenge we are working on TWO bathrooms: finishing our Guest/Studio Bathroom and then tackling our Primary Family Bath.

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Because we have two rooms in two very different states of work, I’ll divide the updates into two sections each week.

The Studio/Guest Bath

Now that the glass is installed, we are down to finishing projects in this bathroom. That includes installing all of the fittings that complete a bathroom — hooks, toilet paper holders, towel bars, and the like. Most of these items were given to us by Speakman, and they are gorgeous!

Here’s just one lovely example with many more to come:

The mirror — a FBMP find — is giving my husband fits. It’s really heavy and has been difficult to hang as the spacing it wrong for it to hit two studs. But he has a plan, and hopefully it will be up soon. That’s the last major piece to go.

Our whole house has been in an upheaval this week, though, because we finally are getting new carpet in the downstairs. When the second flood, Poop-a-Palooza, happened in December, not only did the sewer water saturate the new bathroom floor. It also flooded out into the hallway and into the guest room as well. This meant we needed new carpet in the entire downstairs. Ironically, this means that this week we completely dismantled the first TWO rooms I did for the One Room Challenge! So as I write, the contents of the Guest Room and my office are in a storage container on the driveway, and new carpet was installed today.

So the next few days will involve unpacking and resettling those two rooms. Not a small feat, honestly. But they have been the dumping ground for construction materials and debris of all kinds because of the bathroom project, so it will be nice to have them put back together for real after a year of chaos.

Here are a few photos of the rooms before — and then with the new carpet. It isn’t a big change, but it is nice not to have bare concrete on the floor anymore!

Primary Family Bathroom

As soon as the downstairs is habitable — which is almost true — we will be able to start on the upstairs.

Our big news for this week: we cut a hole in the soffit over the sink to see if it can be removed. Hooray! It can! So that will definitely be coming out which makes me so very happy!

I am making design choices for this room and finalizing details. I have already made the tile choices, and I’ll snap a photo of that gorgeousness for next week’s update. So many exciting things ahead! If you follow me on Pinterest and want a peek at what I’m considering, check out my Bathroom Renovations board — and the other bathroom boards as well.

But I’ll leave you with one sneak peek… the floor tile is inspired by the tile in my elementary school bathroom. I know. It’s weird. But this school was built in the 1950’s and had 1x1” tile on the bathroom floor in a delightful mix of colors. It also had a foot-activated sink that was REALLY fun! So this Primary Bath will be an homage to elementary school in all the best ways! When I saw this tile from Modwalls… well, I knew it needed to be part of this project. Isn’t it fun?!

Now it is time to get back to work! I have a lot to do! If you are doing the One Room Challenge, let me know, so I can follow your project, too. And if you need some inspiration, check out #orcat on Instagram where you’ll find all of the ORC projects. So many cool transformations under way!

To Linda Weinstein, the creator of the One Room Challenge, I offer my most sincere thanks. Thank you for offering this kind of opportunity and for opening it up to anyone. And to Apartment Therapy, the ORC media sponsor: thank you for making this possible! And to all of the other ORC participants: I’ll be sure to stop by to admire your work! It is always fun to do this together!

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Here’s to a week of work and progress! More next week!

Cheers!
Angela

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