ORC Link Up … Week 1

Just when I thought I was capable of focusing on my own!

The One Room Challenge Linking Party starts today … for Six weeks you get to see a MILLION room makeovers with enough inspiration and creativity you could ever imagine all in one Place!

Go here to Follow or Join … Calling It Home.

Don:  "Kim, Can you just focus on the kitchen and the den so we can have two rooms completed before you begin the next?"

Me:  "Yes, I know!  I promise I'll quit jumping around and I'll do these two rooms first."

Don:  "Why are your piles everywhere?"

Me:  "I don't have an office."

Me:  "Linda is doing another ORC"

Don:  "Do it … at least SHE keeps you on task!"

Whoop Whoop … Here we GO!

There is a lot of Ugly to tackle before I get to my inspiration … I know you will pull me through!!

And, Yes … I chose Ms. Confidence!

Now go see what else is happening in homes across the world!

Making The World More Beautiful.  One Room at a Time.

xo,

kim

How do you like me now? ORC Update!

Linda, prompted by Elisa ... is doing a little espionage work to see if we actually have done anything different to our original ORC rooms.

Here's my Round Up
Go Here to check out all the other Rooms 
Made Beautiful during the ORC!

My First ORC... for a young family ... while the pieces are the same in their family room, it is now filled with their love!

My Second ORC ... turning an unused eating area into a Keeping Room for a young family to gather, wait for mom to finish cooking, and read books. The only change they made?  A new puppy!!

My Third ORC, here's where things start to change.

My Office Illusion ... 

What's different ... this illusion was ripped down and here is my NEW reality and it is NO illusion!  Definitely a contender for the April Link Up!

10' X 7' ... remnants of a Dark Room.

All Mine.

My Fourth ORC I joined in the ORC Link Up Party ... 

Our Powder Room.

What's different ... we Moved.  I am now faced with this.  I cannot even call this a Powder Room.  Another Contender for the April ORC Link Up.

I'd like your Opinion ... 

Which one would you like to see me tackle in April?

Powder Bathroom OR my No Illusion Office?
And, YOU can help me Focus!

Plus ... Pick a room and join the Link Up. Here's HOW.
You need some Motivation?  This is It!

Making the World More Beautiful.  One Room at a Time.

Oh, Don't forget to enter to Win
An Affair with a House 
here.

xo,

kim

Friday Snip - It's ... all about the ORC!

1.  Monkey Soap from WOM.

2.  Flower pots and fake boxwood from Michaels ... painted by moi!

3.  Elephant via Etsy and gilded by moi!

4.  Elephant Prints from TPP

5.  ORC - BrainChild of Linda!

6.  HandTowels - fabric found and monogramed (by someone else!) and sewn up by moi.

7.  Gold Chevron Trash can and dish from here.

8.  Mirror picked up while in Lewisburg, Pa moving Callie into school! Always time to shop!!

And given a little Firecracker Love.

9.  Fretwork Ginger Jar via Home Goods with a little Glossy White to bring the girl to life!

As with all challenges there was progress, things not turning out quite the way you plan or anticipate ... but all coming together in the end.  Thanks again to Linda for pulling this all together and creating a forum for us to share and inspire and encourage!  

And thank you all for continuing to check in and comment.  Without that, I am not certain I would have completed this!

Have a wonderful weekend. Manhattan's being served on the sunporch at 7:30, See you here? At least virtually I hope!

Making the World More Beautiful.  One Room at a Time.

xo

kim

Powder Room ... The Reveal!

Well, nothing like a little Group Challenge to get my butt in gear!  I have been sitting (in and) on my Powder Room Re-do for a year.  Everyone needs a Linda in their life to keep us moving along!!

Thank you Linda for the Challenge and all the ORC ladies for inspiring us all to get a room, One Room, done in 6 weeks.  This year Linda added a little Linking Party to motivate even more!  So ... with no more ado, here's my Powder Room!

This is hard for me ... but no words, just photos!  I hope you enjoy and thank you all for coming along with me on this little POTTY adventure!!

  

Okay ... so let's just take a look at where this started ...

If you want to be inspired even more, check in here for the rest of the Linking Party and see all the talent out there.  You are going to be amazed!

If you want to see where this little adventure began, go Here.  

I will be sharing all sources in my Friday post!

Happy Linking Day my friends!  

Making the World More Beautiful.  One Room at a Time.

xo,

kim

Powder Room ... Week 5!

Hard to believe it is Week 5 of the Infamous One Room Challenge!  Have you been keeping up as 20 Designer/DIY'er's change up a room in 6 weeks?  

Check in at Calling It Home and see the fabulous group Linda has rounded up for the challenge

This year Linda invited everyone else with an urge to get something done, to join in!  

You will find me and around 60 others over at the 

ORC Linking Party!

It will truly be a Partayyyy!!  Because I will have my powder room finished!!

Lookie what I got ... 

No real introductions needed here ... but for those of you who have been living under a  rock, let me introduce you to Jennifer!

I first met her during one of the first ORC's and she is what my MIL calls a 

"Hot Ticket"!

She does the most amazing Chinoiserie prints and I have been coveting them for quite some time now.  So I had to re-do my Powder Room to make it happen!

Here is a round up of some of my favorites (besides my ELEPHANTS) ...

Can I also tell you how NICE she is??

And how Talented she is???

And you need to see what she is doing in her daughter's bedroom!!

And the prints she did for Linda's Family Room!

So ... while I am scurrying around in the background putting the final touches on my Powder Room, I am doing little cartwheels while admiring my elephants!!

You should stop in her shop!  Go get you some Goodness!!

I have also been working on my own little version of Leontine Linens ... Remember my inspiration?  Well, I have real people with real dirty hands using my towels.  So while one day I aspire to have these beautiful towels in my powder room ... for now I am doing my own little DIY hand towel.

It is starting out like this .... 

Oh my ... all to be done and ready for the BIG SHOW next week.  Thanks so much to those of you who have watched and cheered me on to finish this little room.  It is quickly becoming one of the favorite spots in my home!

Go check out the other Partayyyy girls here!

Making the World More Beautiful.  One Room at a Time.

xo,

kim

My Powder Room ... Week 3 ORC Link Up!

Time flies when you're having fun!  Here we are at Week 3 of the One Room Challenge Linking Party.  Things are shaping up!

First things first ... last week I posted this "mood board"

Like many of you ... I feel that the Pagoda mirror rocks.  Yes, it does.

It is NOT mine!  I only wish!

Brandy had this mirror and we chatted.  2 reasons I don't own it.

1.  Too Large for my Powder Room

2.  It was $1200.00 ... Don would kill me.  But the powder room would be pretty!!

So ... if you follow me on IG ... you know what I am working with instead!

Now ... here's what has been happening this week.

MOM!!  I need some toilet paper ... 

Do you hear these words?  I can call it a Powder Room all day long.

It is a WorkHorse.

Christopher's main bathroom, the guest bathroom, the I can handle it all bathroom!

And we are always running out of toilet paper!

Some storage ideas ...

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While I was in Home Goods I spied this ... hmm ...

A little glossy white spray paint and I've got the prettiest TP holder on the block!

And yes, you spy my Stroheim black and white wallpaper!

I am in love with the way it looks and cannot wait to show you the rest of the details making this space SHINE!

Via

Don't forget to pop over to Linda's and see all the other One Room Challenge Link Up Participants!

3 weeks Down. 3 to Go!

Making the World More Beautiful.  One Room at a Time.

xo,

kim

Friday Snip-Its ... Fall trending!

1.  Darya fabric that I used for this mood board.  Will be finding a real home for this.

2.  Powder Room Inspiration.

3.  Rug for an edesign client.  Do it!

4.  All Rugs 15% off ... fall is the time for texture.

5.  Amping Up my logo ... Needing More Definition in case you are wondering.

6.  Bucknell Parents' weekend.

7.  Linking up to the ORC.  Finishing my Powder Room. About Time.

8.  Stopover in Millbrook, NY for lunch last Sunday ... Perfect Fall Day.

9.  Antiquing in Millbrook, beautiful but pricey!

Making the World More Beautiful. One Room at a Time.

xo,

kim

My Powder Room!

Y'all know I have been working on my Powder Room for a year.  Yes, a year. 

A little bit of this, a little bit of that ... and it is still not complete.

Life gets busy and I just "sit there" and ignore it!!

So ... once again, with a little inspiration from Linda ... another room will get finished.

You can hear the Hallelujah Chorus coming from my little water closet!

I would like something PRETTY ... like this.

This is a little bit horrifying for Christopher, our son, because in a house full of girls he calls the Powder room HIS.  Well, except when we have guests!

But even he knows it will be better than how it began ... 

While he is very comfortable in his 17 year old masculinity, the Victorian floral was a little frumpy even for him!

Quadrille fabrics have long held my heart ... and a little chinoiserie, of which I really have none in my house, seemed the perfect fit.

As I mentioned, this all started about a year ago ... so in the interim before I could pull the decision gun out and actually commit ... I painted the bathroom, trying to match the sick, not in a good way like our kids use the term, green/grey tile floor.

Bye bye victoria ... 

New light fixture and grey walls and ceiling.  It was okay ... but BORING, snoozefest for the masses who use this room!

Please stop by next Thursday to see the TRUE inspiration for this room and follow along while I commit and get it done!  

Lots of folks linking up ... pop over to get inspired!

Making the World More Beautiful.  One Room at a Time.

xo,

kim