tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47080741267288478002024-03-13T15:55:10.273-04:00Chez Vmrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-25842554699702044862017-11-16T01:56:00.000-05:002017-11-16T08:27:46.048-05:00One Room Challenge Fall 2017 - Final Reveal<div style="direction: ltr; language: en-US; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The
big day is here! Final reveal day of The
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">One Room Challenge™. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">So
glad that I dusted off this antiquated blog to dive headlong into another ORC –
it was just the motivation I needed to give my daughter’s room some attention.
The Whirling Dervish finally got her big girl room. To catch up on the whole
transformation, click through the links the below:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The
plan was to create </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a
bedroom to match </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">her old-soul big personality – a
room that is both </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">beautiful </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">and</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">functional.
She</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">is
a budding collector and artist so we were after a </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">colorful
but sophisticated space that </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">has</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">staying</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">power to transition her Smells
Like Teen Spirit years. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I
think I achieved that.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">ab</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">solutely
loves it and I hope you do too! For once
I will spare you the witty banter and get right to the pictures...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: 2px;">All sources are listed below. I will update this post later with active links for items that are available. Many of the antique or vintage items I already had in my collections. For custom items, I will link fabric and shop sources, where applicable. Please note, none of the listed items were provided so I highly recommend as I purchased them all. I am especially pleased with the level of service and workmanship from Lisa at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/CruelMountain?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Cruel Mountain Designs</a>. She turned my custom pleated lampshade order around quickly when my original ikat fabric was shipped in the wrong color. Can't wait to order more pleated shades from her! Additionally, the Raoul Textiles pillow ordered from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/KLineDeco?ref=condensed_trust_header_title_items" target="_blank">KLineDeco</a> arrived very quickly. Lastly, a shout out to my dear friend Trudi who whipped up the lumbar pillow and Rhododendron accent pillow in literally less than one hour on short notice. Life saver!</span></span></div>
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you so much for following along the past 7 weeks. I had forgotten how much fun I have
blogging. Perhaps this will spur me on
to finally launch my official website.
Many thanks to Linda at <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home</a> for organizing another smashing round – what
incredible transformations from not only the 20 featured <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2017/11/one-room-challenge-fall-2017-week-7" target="_blank">designers</a> but also
from my fellow <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2017/11/wt4zvxowwtzgvxl5ku587xa5fdxbfh" target="_blank">guest participants</a>.
Serious talent all around. Great job everyone!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Holy
crap. I’m behind. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">How
is this even possible? </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Even
with the extra week. I am still
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">because</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">underestimated
the amount of time it would take me to cut fabric. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Wait, what?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Well</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">remember</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">that</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">whole</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">‘I don’t usually measure’
crap from <a href="https://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2017/10/one-room-challenge-fall-2017-wk-2.html" target="_blank">Week 2</a>? It seems when you are sewing
stuff, measurements are </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">kinda</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">,</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">sorta</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">,</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">super</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">important. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Side
eye.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
So I’ve</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">had</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">bit</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">of</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">performance</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">anxiety</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">about</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">cutting</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><a href="http://store.greenbrier.com/brazillance-material-1.html#" target="_blank">fabric</a></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">for</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">roman</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">shades</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">because I only have so</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">much of it with no room for
error. After</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">exhaustively</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">researching</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">many</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">methods</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">for</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">constructing</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> relaxed </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">romans,</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">my</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">take</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">away</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">is</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">this:</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">get
a damn professional to do it</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">.
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Only,
it’s too late for that, so I am pressing on and on and on after calculating
more lengths and widths and seams and centers and rings than in my entire HS
geometry year. After much wringing of
hands and a million measurements later, I finally cut the first roman today and
it took me ALL DAY. The most time-consuming part was getting the dang pattern
centered and positioned where I wanted it based on the finished hang
length. And now to match that exactly
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">At least the lining is cut and sewn for the weight rod pocket for both shades. After I get the second roman cut tomorrow, I
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operating mechanism – which will probably be about as much fun as the time I
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">labor-intensive fussing, I am
going to wear these dang shades around like Scarlet O’ Hara, albeit more Carol
Burnett than Vivien Leigh. When anyone
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">While making a template of the mirror to determine where we needed to drill holes, I got on the website to find out the exact dimensions and saw the picture of the room on Ballard's website - which was totally weird because at first I didn't put two and two together and wondered how in the world they had a lampshade that looked just like my <a href="https://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-big-lampshadowski-or-el.html" target="_blank">custom one</a>. <i>Blonde, much? </i></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">reading</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">chair. It arrived over the weekend and is in
place but you will have to wait until next week to see it because I forgot to snap a picture of it today. While I had always envisioned a
wing back, the smaller size of the chair I ordered works so much better. The mister, after reading a few nights worth
of bedtime stories in it, has pronounced it to be pretty perfect but that a
small footstool or ottoman would be nice.
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">If you give a mouse a cookie…</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">that </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the
<a href="https://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/rugs/momeni-isa-3/Pink/126ISA3BLU-P.html" target="_blank">rug</a> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">is in </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">place,</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I am loving it more and
more. The colors are perfect in the room
and the pattern will work to mask minor mishaps. The pattern and color play nicely with the
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us luck in these last few days that everything pulls together without a
hitch. Notice I didn’t mention the desk
chair or the closet doors. Still not
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">don’t
want to end on a Rhett Butler</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> note so go check out the superstar progress of the <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2017/11/one-room-challenge-fall-2017-week-6" target="_blank">20 designers</a> and my fellow
<a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2017/11/fall-2017-one-room-challenge-guest-participants-week-6" target="_blank">linking participants</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Welcome
back for week five </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">of <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/oneroomchallenge/" target="_blank">The One Room Challenge</a></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><a href="http://www.callingithome.com/oneroomchallenge/" target="_blank">™</a>. </span></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 2px;">Thank you again to <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home</a> for hosting this bi-annual challenge and to media sponsor <a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a>. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">For</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">just tuning in, take a moment to
click through the links below, starting with WK1 to get</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">an</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">idea</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the inspiration for the room, my design process and progress
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Having
an </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">additional week </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">before
final reveal day on November 16</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
has been a life saver </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">for my</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">marriage – the mister does a lot of the physical work
and thus feels the time</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">crunch</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">acutely. Every time we embark on another ORC, it</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">is during this particular week,
while I am hanging over his shoulder twitching with anxiety about whether we
will finish the work in time, that he swears up and down that it will be the
VERY. LAST. ONE. WE. EVER. DO. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Forever and ever, amen</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">. To which I usually respond with
contrite platitudes to the effect of ‘</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">ok,
ok, this</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">is</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">absolutely the last</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">one</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">’
all the while crossing my fingers behind my back and mentally planning the next
makeover. You </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">wanna</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
know why? Because I love doing
these ORCs.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span></span></div>
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is,</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">deadline</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">to</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">get</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">stuff</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">done and I prefer a little
pressure – a little anxious twitching and gnashing of</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">teeth is good for the soul. Well, probably not, but it’s good for project
completion and that’s what the ORC has always been from the beginning –
supportive accountability to get an unfinished project finished. The camaraderie
that happens behind the scenes via emails, texts, IG and comments from fellow
designers, artists, friends and followers is super great. I have made so many friends through this
since embarking on my <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-big-reveal-wk6-orc-challenge.html" target="_blank">first ORC</a> four years ago – </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">FOUR
years ago?!</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
Put plainly, you guys make it all worth while. Super big thanks for sticking around for our
shenanigans.</span></span><br />
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because very little reno was required</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> combined with </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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this time around like The Dude. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">My plan is coming together as I
envisioned, the Dervish is happy that she got her damn purple, and I got my
custom shade, which is all I care about really.
The room is all about that shade – it’s like Lebowski’s</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">it</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> really ties the room</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">together </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">– </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">which I will promptly
be stealing after reveal day. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I’m joking. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">No
seriously</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">.
I’m joking. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I. ABSOLUTELY. WILL. NOT. STEAL.
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<a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2017/10/one-room-challenge-fall-2017-wk-2.html" target="_blank">week two</a>, I talked about how my design process usually starts with a certain
feeling triggered by a unique piece, like art or a trophy fabric. This room is no different. While the Carleton Varney <a href="http://store.greenbrier.com/brazillance-material-1.html" target="_blank">Rhododendron fabric</a>
was certainly a jumping off point, I positively designed this room around the custom pleated shade. I knew from the very beginning that I would have one. I have long ogled the custom silk lampshades that the English do so, so well <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">–</span> like <span id="goog_245263177"></span><a href="http://irvingandmorrison.com/lamp-shades/" target="_blank">Irving and Morrison</a><span id="goog_245263178"></span>, <a href="http://www.robertkime.com/" target="_blank">Robert Kime</a> or <a href="http://www.susandeliss.com/lampshades" target="_blank">Susan Deliss</a>. Custom lampshades are spendy - often costing much more than the lamp itself <span style="font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">–</span>and the English versions are no exception. But the investment is absolutely worth it as standard shades are often the wrong size and shape. So when </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 2px;">I stumbled across the work of Lisa from </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/CruelMountain" style="font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 2px;" target="_blank">Cruel Mountain Designs</a><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 2px;"> on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cruelmountaindesigns/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, who does custom shades with great fabrics, I knew I would order one from her at some point. The Dervish's room was the perfect excuse, and I finally got my pleated shade. Except it's not really 'mine' and now I am suffering massive shade envy and will need to promptly order some for my room. Lisa was incredible to deal with and even managed to turn my order around quickly when the ikat fabric I ordered arrived in the wrong color. I had her sew a pillow sham for me as well and I am over the moon with the results. Still waiting on the overstuffed down insert but had to immediately test drive it on the bed with the accompanying pillows. <i>I mean, I die</i>. Loving it with the <a href="http://www.raoultextiles.com/home" target="_blank">Raoul Textiles</a> pillow from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/KLineDeco/items?section_id=15399445&ref=pagination&page=2" target="_blank">KLineDeco</a>.</span></span><br />
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got the bed assembled with headboard in place.
Which is really swell because of course the standard twin size bedframe
bolt holes did not fit up to the standard twin size headboard bolt holes. Not
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together a metal brace to accommodate the misalignment and managed to reinforce
the whole works. Again, the car hobby
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along with the overhead <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00259914/#" target="_blank">light fixture</a> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">–</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> happy about the sculptural aspect of it
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">week </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">four
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">of The One Room Challenge™ - </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">and
I’m happy to report that we officially have paint on the walls. I can assure you this is a first in the
history of all chez V ORCs. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Woop</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">And
speaking of firsts, for the first</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">time</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">EVER,
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><a href="http://www.callingithome.com/oneroomchallenge/" target="_blank">The One Room Challenge</a></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><a href="http://www.callingithome.com/oneroomchallenge/" target="_blank">™</a>
team has decided to extend</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> final reveal day by a week to
accommodate delays due to the natural disasters leading up to the ORC. Many designers are experiencing shipment
delays, supply shortages, and backlogs of scheduled trade work. <i>Can I get a collective Vicki Gunvalson woo hoo-like woop? </i>I am overjoyed
to have an additional week as I was just lamenting last <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2017/10/one-room-challenge-fall-2017-wk-3.html" target="_blank">week</a> about not enough time or moola.</span></div>
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daughter’s room finally got emptied. All
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implied last week, the original pink choice was kicked to the curb in favor of
<a href="http://us.farrow-ball.com/" target="_blank">Farrow and Ball’s</a> Peignoir. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">What</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">can</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">say? The Dervish got her purple
after all.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Well,
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">say</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">–
Peignoir</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">is</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">decidedly more</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">pigmented and sophisticated than
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">it</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">It's been gray and rainy for days, so the lighting is dark but you get the general idea. During the day the color hovers closer to lilac and in the evening leans toward a pinkish gray - which, surprisingly, is what I was going for. A fleshy, pigmented pink rather than pepto pink or uncooked hot dog.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">color</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">started pulling items into the
room – the desk, painted a minty color, and the desk lamp, both purchased at
<a href="https://www.homegoods.com/" target="_blank">Home Goods</a>. Next, I shopped my house
looking for accessories – a small oil painting of a mother and daughter that my
mother gave to me for my first apartment which is now absolutely perfect in
this room; a small pair of purple tinted Staffordshire pups from my collection,
again surprisingly perfect here, and one of my favorite vintage chinoiserie
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">You
know what else I’d be just darling at? </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Not being smug</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">. How silly of me to brag last
week about being ahead of schedule. Well, Reality, that prickly </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">priss</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">,
has expertly aimed her fist at my face.
In other words, I woke up today and realized it’s week three of <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/oneroomchallenge/" target="_blank">The One Room Challenge™</a> - the dreaded mid-point where all delusions of special projects
and preparedness wither and die. It’s a
lot like having a dream about showing up to school with no clothes on and
realizing that you have a chemistry test for which you did not prepare. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Please tell me this happens to you too.
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Well,
let’s get right to it. If you are just
tuning in, </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: 2px;">I am participating as a guest participant in the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> The One Room Challenge™ hosted by </span><a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;" target="_blank">Calling It Home</a><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> and media partner </span><a href="http://www.housebeautiful.com/" style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;" target="_blank">House Beautiful</a><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Last
<a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2017/10/one-room-challenge-fall-2017-wk-2.html" target="_blank">week</a> I was confidently channeling Dorothy Draper with all the chutzpah of a
newly minted bourgeoise. This week I’m
all razor tongued and sharply sad like Ms. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Parker,
lamenting whether I can afford lunch at
the Algonquin. This is due in large part
to the realization that my timeline for the ORC is as short as my wallet is
deep. It is that age old conflict of man
v. himself, or in my case, Emily v. herself. Or Dorothy v. Dorothy. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Wait,</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">w</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">hat the hell are you even talking about, Emily?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Glad
you asked. To put it plainly, my tastes outpace my means in this time frame. <i>Common lamentations.</i> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The
source of my conflict, while simple to comprehend </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">on
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the surface, is not a simple case of wanting </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">luxury
for </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">luxury sake. Rather, having grown
up among artisans and design-minded people, I have a deep appreciation for
craftmanship and bespoke detailing. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">admire
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immediately convey a sense of place, and a personal way of </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">living. These things take time and money – both of
which are in short supply here. So the
challenge becomes - how to bring those bespoke, designer touches into a tight,
budget-driven timeline without risking things veering off into an episode of
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should be as simple as an</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">extension
of the way one hopes to live. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">And given enough time, one can</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">generally</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">find</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">solutions. However, in 6 weeks, you are absolutely
forced to make sacrifices – especially if one hasn’t prepared in advance and we
all know</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">don’t</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">prepare - for propriety
sake. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">As
in, ‘I proclaimed I’d finish the damn room</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">and</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">so</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">So it's all 'pull up my big girl panties and get on it with it' vibes over here. I'll get there - I usually do - but not without some bellyaching first.</span><br />
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paint on the walls as of yet. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> barely there </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Sherwin Williams <a href="https://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW6295-demure#/6295/?s=coordinatingColors&p=PS0" target="_blank">pink</a> in the plan above that I was so sure of which was color-matched to the Rhododendron
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">outvoted in favor of a <a href="http://us.farrow-ball.com/" target="_blank">Farrow and Ball</a> color that is decidedly more pigmented and purple. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The
pink ikat fabric I ordered for a custom shade and pillow arrived as black fabric,
with a handwritten tag identifying it as ‘pink.’ </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Seriously? </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">After</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">scrambling</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">to</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">finally
get the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">actual</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">ordered,</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
I may not get the custom work back in time for the reveal.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">to</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">source</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a cozy, affordable reading
chair. I am holding out for a
serendipitous high-end consignment find or floor model. I paid a fortune for my daughter’s modern
glider, and while it has held up frame wise, the upholstery is totally wrecked
after 9 yrs. No time for a custom slipcover. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Sacrifices. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Same</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">goes</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">for</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">nightstand.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Total
crap options out there that are budget-friendly.</span></div>
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news that resembles something close to hope and progress, I have painted the
desk ( </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">and by me, I mean the Dervish
with heavy art direction from her father </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">)</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">sourced at <a href="http://www.homegoods.com/" target="_blank">Home Goods</a> for a
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">For the desk chair which I found at a
local consignment shop (</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">and purchased for a literal
fraction of the new one I sourced online</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">) I </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">purchased</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> the herringbone </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">fabric</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">to </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">reupholster</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> it from the </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><a href="http://www.fabricshack.com/" target="_blank">Fabric Shack</a>, my local fabric source for many projects</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">. </span></div>
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should start by saying that I am not a decorator. I have no formal training in interior design
so the way I approach the design of a room likely flies in the face of
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Like
Dorothy, I am an autodidact when it comes to decorating. Having been raised by a house-proud mom and
surrounded by beautiful things, </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">my</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">education started early. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">My
most treasured childhood toy was my wooden</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">dollhouse! </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Hours
upon hours I spent redecorating that</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">thing</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">and</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">envisioning
the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">fabulous
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">dolls</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">lived</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">as</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">result. By the age of five, I was a full-fledged
devotee.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">As</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">got</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">older I started </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">reading
my mother’s design, art and architecture books along with magazines as I lived
through her decorating whims</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">To
this day, I consume them </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">voraciously in </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">distinctive style</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">. </span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">decorate</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">instinctively. I do not begin with a floor plan and then
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">interesting</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">piece or a dynamic color or
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">an</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">entire</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">room.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Mixing color, pattern, and
statement pieces, both high and low, are signatures of my style. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Minimalism
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">vibe
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for the major elements and the color story.
In this case, it was the Carlton Varney Rhododendron fabric which
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">having</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Ficks</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The
elements</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">on
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">not be</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">final</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">pieces</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">but</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">serve</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">to</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">give</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">me</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">inspiration</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">so</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">that
when I am in shops, touching and feeling, I can make quick decisions as to
whether a</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">piece
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">or</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">not. From there, I make a punch list and off I
go. Along the way, things are often
tweaked but in general my first instinct about the overall feel of the</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">As
I mentioned earlier, lots of progress to report this week. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">B</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">y that I mean I really just maxed my credit card. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Happy
to report my room looks exactly the same as it did last week. <i>Wait,</i> s<i>ay what?</i> I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">n</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">my</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">book</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> this </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">is</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">great thing</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">because usually my ORC spaces
resemble a scene from Dexter at this point.
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Praise all that is holy for no
reno. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Although
come to think of it, a 5’ and change shorty on a janky ladder trying to hang
crown molding dripping with liquid nails might get sporty as was evidenced in
my bathroom install. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Cue the cursing and booze.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
You’d think the mister would account for my shortness and give me the taller
ladder. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Rude. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">This
time I might accidentally brad</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">his
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my vision board in hand, I hit the pavement this week, scouring many local places. <i>Totally counts as exercise too, according to my Fitbit.</i> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Nothing
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hit up my usual online haunts as well and sourced some of the foundation items
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out of sync. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I made</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">major</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">purchase</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">decisions in week two. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">What</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">will</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">happen</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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back next week, please! I </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">might</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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I will cover a few of the projects we have in the works. It is not a real Housewives of chez V ORC
without some actual rehab theatrics or grandiose DIY gone wrong. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Like when Dorinda tries to speak or the Countess tries to walk after 50 cocktails</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Oh
hey, are you following me yet on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/emilyvanderputten/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>?
What’s taking you so long? <i>Don't be scared</i></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><i>. </i></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I
will be sharing all my juicy Kardashian booty behind-the-scenes stuff on
Stories that won’t get covered here. Kim tells me selfies are </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">soooo</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
last year and that Stories/Snap is where it’s at. So that’s where I’ll be. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I
totally get my real news from her and the housewives so it must be true.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Also,
while I am badgering, would love to hear from you all. You can leave me a comment at the bottom of
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always, be sure to check </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">out </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">the
20 featured <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2017/10/k86gstv6fifupi7rknu3qbfzak7ne5" target="_blank">designers</a> – there is some serious </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">goodness</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> happening. And be sure to check in on my fellow guest participants – over <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2017/10/fall-2017-one-room-challenge-guest-participants-week-2" target="_blank">200</a>!</span></div>
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loo who’s back?! As I live and breathe,
I simply cannot, for the life of me, believe that I am voluntarily jumping back
on the ORC link bandwagon. Committing to the
<a href="http://www.callingithome.com/oneroomchallenge/" target="_blank">One Room Challenge™</a> is knowing that for the next six weeks, I am basically
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have participated in three - one of which I was one of the 20 featured
designers - and have sort of lived to tell the tale each time. And while my marriage was truly tested – the
mister and I do our own work – my tiny postage stamp of a house is better for
each one. <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/oneroomchallenge/" target="_blank">The One Room Challenge™</a> is
just that, a challenge. It is not a
contest ( </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">ahem, Mom</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
) but rather a challenge to design and finish a room within six weeks. All organized by superstar Linda of <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling It Home</a>, who, over the course of 12 seasons, has been personally responsible
for inspiring over 1,700 transformations and garnering major media attention along
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I am officially dusting off my design duster and reviving the blog to address a
loooong overdue makeover. So overdue, in fact, since I promised it right after finishing my first <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-layered-retreat-my-orc-room-now.html" target="_blank">ORC</a> in 2013.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-big-reveal-wk6-orc-challenge.html" target="_blank">ORC</a></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> as a guest participant </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">over</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">my</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">bedroom
into a moody layered retreat. 4 years
later and I have not changed a <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-layered-retreat-my-orc-room-now.html" target="_blank">thing</a>.
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">a lot like Molly Ringwald sewing
my own damn prom dress with no date.
That go round it was a soft reno of the <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/05/one-room-challenge-sources.html" target="_blank">kitchen</a>.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/11/one-room-challenge-linking-event-week-6.html" target="_blank">ORC</a></span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">I</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">did a few years ago again as a guest was my Auntie
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inspired bathroom. It is by far my
absolute favorite as it is completely and totally me. All the saturated and layered gestures in one
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with every ORC, we do all the work ourselves so things take For Like Ever. And it always seems to come down to the
nail-biting wire with paint going up the night before. Budget is always tight but that’s how my
mister makes me roll. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Hello, I’m Greek, and my last two nickels would burn a hole in my
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high spirited 9 year old with a penchant for bold strokes, pattern, purple and
glitter. Can get down with the first
two, but, um, no glitter. Like ever. And the dreaded purple. Hate purple. Like really, really </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">hate</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> purple like I </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">hate</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> root canals and fake </span><s><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">friends</span></s><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Everything
with this little gal is </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">more</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">. She is expressive, creative, and passionately
curious. Enthusiastic gestures and the
tenacious pursuit of the next shiny thing are her </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">milieu</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Read:
dramatic, stubborn, demanding, unfocused ball of never-ending energy.</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Life
with this dervish, while never dull, can be challenging at the best of times but especially when executive
functioning is called for. Finding
errant shoes and the dog-eared homework in time to make the bus is never a
simple task as one is likely jammed in the back of the super cool Zaha Hadid-</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">esque</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
fort, erected the night before from a tower of dirty clothes and duct tape; and
the other, well, likely smeared with peanut butter and not completed because of
said fort construction. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Sarah Cynthia Silvia </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Stout
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">by way of Little Peggy Ann McKay
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need a </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">bedroom </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">to
match that bold-size personality. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">But
it must be both beautiful </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">and</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
functional. One that fosters creative
expression while also functioning to organize all the bits and bobs of a girl
on the cusp of becoming a tweeny screenager.
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Lord, give me strength. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Much
like her tenacity, the room must have staying power. But heaven help me, she demanded purple. All the purple. In spite of funky arm pits ( <i>at nine?!!!</i> ) and eye rolls on repeat, she still adores purple and glitter. Hard pass. Instead, she will get all the PINK IS THE NEW PURPLE propaganda I can muster.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Who
am I even becoming? Form and function is
laughable coming from the Queen of All Show and No Go. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">It
is totally normal to wear 4” heels and lipstick to the delivery room, right?</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> I was once 5 hours late to a date ( <i>likely our 3rd date</i> ) with my future husband
because I got distracted by a good book while searching for that perfect shade
of red nail polish. </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">The dervish totally gets it from her father.</span></div>
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for my own sanity, while painting a colorful canvas, we must assign a place for
all things in Dervish’s room so we can make it to the bus on time once in 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook";"><span style="font-size: 16.5333px; letter-spacing: 2px;">The BEFORE state is a rather disjointed jumble of mismatched castoffs. The only two intentional items in the room are carryovers from her nursery when we moved her into the bigger room - the glider - which has seen better days and - the painting over her bed - which was commissioned from <a href="http://jennyandrewsanderson.bigcartel.com/products" target="_blank">Jenny Andrews Anderson</a>. The painting is the ONLY thing likely staying. If you are eagle eyed, you will notice many of her pieces feature prominently in my rooms. <i>I love me some JAA.</i> All the rest were thrown in from various rooms in a weak attempt at a big girl room. Now it is time to give her space proper intention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">Soap
operas aside, my little gal has a flair for the dramatic and is a collector at
heart. She is an old soul that reacts
viscerally to color, smells, and music.
Coupled with a strong sense of self, her determination to walk to the
beat of her own style drum is something I want to cultivate. The following gals show a similar sense</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">
</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">of</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">individualism
in</span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #615c53; font-family: "century schoolbook"; font-size: 12.4pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;">their
personal and professional lives and so serve as inspiration for our direction.</span></div>
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I still have an intact marriage. Or if
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next week, check me out on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/emilyvanderputten/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. I
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me if I’ve forgotten something important or to link someone because it’s been
100 years since I last blogged. Be sure to catch up on the 20 featured <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/blog/2017/10/one-room-challenge-fall-2017-week-1" target="_blank">designers</a>. Also,
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Cecil, my Easter table this year is anything but practical and safe. I sort of waited until the last minute,
thinking that I would do a rerun of my blue </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-very-chinoiser-v-easter.html" target="_blank">Chinoiserie</a></span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> table from a few years ago. But in a frenzy of inspiration yesterday, I
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again. It pays to hold on to things.
Well, maybe </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">PAY</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> is a bit ambitious.
My husband wholeheartedly disagrees, vociferously. But if I didn’t have a fabric or </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Chinoiserie</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
addiction, I would not have been able to trim the tree this year or deck chez
V’s halls. Well, maybe </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">NOT</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> is also a bit ambitious, so let’s just say </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">without spending mucho </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">dinero</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. And that is a lot like </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">paying</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, no? </span></div>
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tree’ bit rather literal this year.
Rather than buying new trimmings, as I often do each year, I raided my
stashes to pull off a fresh look for Christmas.
Armed with loads of extra yardage of my very favorite Greek Key trim, I
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Additionally, I used remnants to make up some new stockings, complete with lining and trim! These are now
officially my most favorite things ever.
I may never take them down. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Cheers, i</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">t’s Christmas every day of the year!</span></div>
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others. Having come from a long Greek
line of food pushers, it is simply what I do.
I cook for my family </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">daily </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">and whenever the occasion calls for it, I cook for
others. If you have a new baby, I will
bring food. If you win the Pulitzer
Prize, I will bring food. If you have a
death in th</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">e family, I will bring food. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">If you leave the restroom trailing toilet paper from your shoe, I will bring
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celebrate my family and friends, in good times and bad. Much like my </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Yia</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Yia</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, I
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I entertain at home quite often.
Preparing a delicious meal and setting a pretty table thrills me to no
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china stash. I have an incurable habit
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willow collection for our everyday dishes, which I have been augmenting since
college graduation. Just last weekend,
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and green for me, or heaven forbid, brown and boring. I do appreciate brown, as evidenced in my
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setting. Instead, you will get a crazy
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">The big day is </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">here! Reveal day,
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Room Challenge</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">™ <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/11/one-room-challenge-linking-event-round.html">linking event</a>. I re-did my bathroom in 6 short weeks,
handling all the work between my mister and myself, and have lived to tell the
tale, although my marriage had some sporty moments. This is my 3</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt; vertical-align: super;">rd</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> time participating (<a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-big-reveal-wk6-orc-challenge.html">here</a> and <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/05/one-room-challenge-week-6-reveal.html">here</a>, in addition to this one) each time it is complete and total hairy eyeball chaos. Thank you for checking in each week, your encouragement is everything! If you are new to <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/">chez V</a>, you can catch up on all the drama, </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">and believeyoume there was plenty of it, </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">including my
starting point, by checking out weeks </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">1 – </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">5 on </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">the links below:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 19px;">Another big heartfelt thanks to <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/">Linda</a> for organizing </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">The </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/11/one-room-challenge-fall-2014-finale.html">One Room Challenge</a></span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">™ and the <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/11/one-room-challenge-linking-event-round.html">linking event</a>. I now have 3 knock out rooms in this postage stamp of mine because of participating. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Yeehaw! </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 19px;">Cannot</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 19px;"> wait to settle in and see the amazing transformations of the other 90+ participants. Check them out <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/11/one-room-challenge-linking-event-round.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-50403243727882478242014-10-30T04:30:00.000-04:002014-10-30T10:38:04.535-04:00One Room Challenge - Week 5 - in which the heroine addresses a crisis of confidence<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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se, I do consider any room that I design a canvas of sorts. For that matter, I consider life to be a canvas of sorts, but that is a dissertation for another day. As with many artists, I fall victim to
self-doubt throughout the ebb and flow of my creative process. This round of <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/10/one-room-challenge-linking-event-round_30.html">The One Room Challenge™</a> is
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 19px;">Whenever I find myself with a crisis of confidence or in a creative stale mate, I seek inspiration from kindred spirit animals. </span><a href="http://abloomsburylife.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 19px;">Lisa Borgnes Giramonti</a><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 19px;"> is one such animal. Although we have never spoken or even ever exchanged so much as an email, I am wildly inspired by her. I feel her, deeply. I react viscerally to her writing, her love of literature, and her profound appreciation for detail in the art of living. The art of living is something about which I feel quite passionate. While I concede that we are not solving humanity's problems with good design or the One Room Challenge, specifically, the importance of art in life, which as it turns out, is nothing more than committing to something and following through wholeheartedly with your best work or intention, is as vitally important as breathing.</span></div>
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in 6 weeks may seem easy. It may even seem frivolous. Let me assure you, that it is
not. When you add to that - public accountability in the social media arena, it is a downright terrifyingly defining call-to-action. Even when armed with a team of
professionals ready to do your bidding, delays happen. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">And I don’t have a team of
professionals on hand… </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">The deadline is precisely what makes
participating in this so exciting and nerve-wracking and marriage-wrecking all wrapped into one. Even though art cannot be rushed, deadlines keep us accountable. As Ira Glass </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">advocates</a><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">, all of us who do creative work get into it because we have decent taste, or at least we think we do, and we realize that we must do a lot of work, even if it isn't that great, in order to create something extraordinarily special. We must set deadlines for ourselves to turn out the work. Each and every time I agree to do the ORC, I know I am chasing that elusive 'special greatness' or in the parlance of connoisseurs, my master piece. But, as Ira points out, most quit too soon. Most give up in the mediocre stages of creation, and this is what I must remind myself in the midst of each round - especially in week 5 with disparate patches of dry wall dots. I know I am not great. I know that my reach does not always match my vision. But one thing I have learned from being a perfectionist, is that it is far better to try and fail with your whole heart, then to have never failed at all because you didn't try, or worse, because you only tried half-heartedly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">This ORC thing is mind boggling to my mister. It is down right confounding to my non-design amigos. It seems easy to my fellow arm-chair decorating enthusiasts who peruse </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">Pinterest</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> and tear inspiration sheets from shelter </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">mags</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I know this first hand because I was
one during the first handful of rounds.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> It is an entirely different thing altogether to design a
room and take it from concept through to full installation – let alone do it in
6 weeks, in the public arena, on any kind of reasonable budget. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">My friend Linda from <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/">Calling it Home</a> started this brilliant ORC a few years ago and it
has since become a major phenomenon, rightfully so, trademarked, with mega watt
participants, </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">mondo</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">reno</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> budgets, sponsors, and editorial worthy
results. But at its core the ORC has
always been about motivating and inspiring creative people to do more of their own work. As a result, legions of creatives have rallied to the call and have done an extraordinary thing. They have created. And continue to create their own work and put it out there, which in turn, inspires others to create. While I stress about whether or not I will finish, or while I experience crazy pangs of anxiety about falling short, or whether or not my vision will live up to expectation, I remind myself of both the smallness and bigness of the task at hand. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">I am creating for creation sake, with
my whole heart, so that one day, after many, many creations, I can realize that
special thing. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">But it is also just a damn room.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">What does all this rambling esoteric mumbo jumbo mean? It means that I need to simply get on with it, and leave the doubt behind. I will do what I set out do. Create a room. It may be great or it may not. I hope it happens within the allotted amount of time. At the outset in <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/10/one-room-challenge-linking-event-week.html">Week 1</a>, I said this would be a simple
refresh project. Slap some paint on the
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the electricity without incident over the weekend and I am happy to report that
our marriage survived the task at hand. The </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">kharmic</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> explosion of the combo fan/light, while in my best
interests for a new-to-me brass light, left a huge gaping square hole in the ceiling. We got the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">electrical</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> sorted
out and in the practical interest of ease, we elected to wait to put the
fixtures up until after painting, given the size and shape of the fixtures. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Fingers crossed our electrical
wizardry is correct.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Moving electricity from an overhead vanity to sconces
and replacing a torched overhead fan/light combo has resulted in the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">neverending</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> patch work story.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Which leads to lots
of waiting for said patches to dry. And
lots of sanding. And lots of
cleaning. And more patching and more
waiting. And more sanding. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Rinse and repeat. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">W</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">hile I was up on my ladder patching holes, I came face
to face with the slap shod drywall work I did 8 years ago. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">It was lumpy bumpy at best. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I rushed the paint
job 8 years ago and I am rectifying those mistakes this go round. That of course means more sanding and
patching. But I have made progress, or at least more of a mess. Case in point:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in which I thought I was done with a few simple patches</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in which I realized that the walls looked like the back of my thighs</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oh look, a tiny hole patch...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oh wait, many more patchy patches. at least I have sconce wiring, right?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">All of this to say that I am almost exactly where I was
<a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2013/10/wk5-orc-updates.html">last year</a> when faced with the reality of going into week 5 without paint on the
walls. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">My
right arm has once again fallen off from fatigue and landed somewhere in
Australia. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Which means nothing gets installed until paint is
dry. Which really means I have no idea
if my vision is any good in reality. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">What if I hate the paint?</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">Hence that inevitable moment of
self-doubt - that
creative process of a hamster wheel that runs the gamut of euphoric best idea ever,
humbling self-doubt, down to the crippling realization of minimal </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">progress, intoxicating hope of survival, and back up to euphoric </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">amazingness</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> of
concept realized. Let’s hope I can claw
my hamster butt up from feeling that my efforts have been futile through hopes
of survival and back to euphoric </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">amazingness</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">.</span></div>
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today, brass sexiness arrived at my door in the form of my faucet which I
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Room Challenge™ <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/10/one-room-challenge-linking-event-round_23.html">link up</a> - where rubber meets the road for most </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">folks</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. Plans get modified as set backs cause course
corrections and to-do lists get slashed to the vital few that can realistically
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and crown molding, which I pointed out in week one would no longer be
noticeable. These small details will
likely go unnoticed by most but they have driven me crazy for 6 years. Small victories for workmanship. I’ll spare you the details, but me on a
ladder straddling the tub wielding a caulk gun over my head made for some
pretty entertaining moments. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">My fingers may or may not have been stuck to my hair when it
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fireworks. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">That
overhead boob/fan combo that I complained about last Thursday morning literally
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Thursday evening. As predicted,
pyrotechnics and we haven’t even tackled the sconces yet. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I cannot make this </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">shiz</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> up</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. I flipped the
switch in the middle of the night and it responded with a *poof.* Dark
electrical burn marks. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Bad karma or divine providence?</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I’ll let you decide.
Alls I know is that Momma V is getting a new overhead light in addition to sconces. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Bang bang.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
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cannot wait to get this room put together.
</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I keep calling it my bath-o-brass. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">The brass shower rod arrived along with the components
to make a </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">lucite</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> towel rod. The
switch plates are heavy and heavenly. My
sconces came and let me just say </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">deee</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">-vine. I squealed
with glee. I have every digit crossed
that nothing goes wrong with the sconce installation. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Very tight squeeze and I fear a stud in the corner might
make it very tricky. As it turns out,
the green mirror I bought is too big with the sconces so I went on a mad dash
today to locate a new one and find one I did. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Divine providence strikes again.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> I'll save that along with the full monty on the sconces for reveal day.</span></div>
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person as on screen. Turns out she is
larger than life. I planned on re-framing her but the frame in which I found her is a decent wood one so I may just paint it to save a few bones. A pesky outlet will
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14pt;">Now she will have to go on the opposite wall, which, as it turns out, is perfect because it is a much larger expanse plus I purchased </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14pt;">another stunner from <a href="http://jennyandrewsanderson.bigcartel.com/">Jenny Andrews Anderson</a> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14pt;">that will take pride of place over the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14pt;">loo</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14pt;">. CAN NOT wait for it to arrive. And yes, I just said you would have to wait until reveal week to see the full monty but I was never any good at keeping promises. This is sort of what the situation will look like. The mirror I picked up today is similar in feel to the one below...</span><br />
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this </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">wknd</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> so that I can start painting on Monday. Let’s have a collective moment of silence for
the mister – he gets real </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">pissy</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> when he has to crawl up in the attic space and run
electrical. I’m guessing it has
something to do with dark, cramped spaces, populated with spiders the size of
Kansas. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I’m
already getting the silent treatment. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Whatever.
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fangs. Like the new ones discovered in some
tropical rain forest. Seriously, </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">wtf?</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
I won't even post a picture because when I saw it I puked in my mouth and lost feeling in my face. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic';"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>effing spiders.</i></span></span></div>
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color on her walls.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> I dragged my fabric in with me this time and it was much easier to narrow the brown options down to two. I will tell you next week how I landed on my final choice because there is a practical lesson to be learned. You can see the wall color and trim color a bit in the background below...along with some pretty fantastic passementerie that I intend to use to take my bespoke shower curtain to a whole other crazy glam next level shizznizzy.</span><br />
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did I promise? Progress. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">What’s that?</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> Setbacks.
</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">No shortage of those. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">While </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">p</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">hysical </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">progress </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">may be </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">on the lean </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">side, mental </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">progress has been made in spades</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">As indicated, I’ve </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">committed to a direction. In the interest of time, I had to
compromise on </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">a few </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">dream </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">scenarios </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">which included many pretties like <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/domesticate" target="_blank">Andrea’s</a> too-die-for </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">wallpaper
and textile designs. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Note to self, next project plan ahead so that
goodness becomes reality. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">But </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I think
the end result will be equally </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">smashing </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">and channel the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">fabulously flamboyant</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">glam
vibe </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">for which I am known.
</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Now, if I was advising someone else, I would make the
case for the long game dream scenario. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Be patient about </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">long </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">lead
times, </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">invest in the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">good stuff, let the room evolve</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">yada</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">yada</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">yada</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">…</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">But this is the ORC folks and you have ordered up some </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">dramatical</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
cliff-hanging turn </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">arounds</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> and I aim to please.
So rather than do the prudent thing, I am going full boogie in the
direction of my </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Auntie </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Mame</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> dreams </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">with confidence that I can still pull this off in 3 weeks. Because let’s face it, if left to my own
devices, the room, even in it’s dream state, would never get finished. A deadline is a necessary bedfellow in the
home of two </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">incurable procrastinators</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Know thyself, as another smart
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Ah, setbacks. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">My
indecision has caused me no </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">end of headaches but I think we’ve pretty well covered
that. Suffice it to say, I am </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">forced
to </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">reinvent the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">wheel because now, having finally committed, the things
I want have lead times that extend well past reveal day. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">See above. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">The </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">exhaust fan/light combo continues to be a thorn. I </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">may or may not have a trim issue. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">We have yet to tackle the electricity but I can pretty
much predict the usual pyrotechnic chicanery that this money pit tees up every
time we visit it’s under belly. I am
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">This is where reality comes into play – real
life, real time, real budget. Going into
this ORC, I am determined to minimize any </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">invasive maneuvers such as moving/running new
electricity and patching dry wall. So
that means I am limited in lighting choices to over vanity light fixtures rather than
sconces. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Bummer. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Most options are lame but I found a few that I like
including the one I used on my original board.
It also turns out the overhead boob light is one of those light/fan
combo jobbers. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Bigger bummer. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Those
few options are downright dreadful.
Dashed are my hopes of a glam brassy/chrome light over the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">loo</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">unless
of course I can convince the mister to separate the two and run electricity to
a separate exhaust fan over the shower.
Fine and dandy Sandy in dream </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">landy </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">but in reality that involves the mister cramming
himself into the tiny eaves of the attic near the edge of the roof to cut more
holes in the ceiling. Me thinks he has a
limited appetite for electrical work given the kitchen <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-room-challenge-week-three.html" target="_blank">fiasco</a>. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">A</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">nd so begins </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">LightingGate</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.</span></div>
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I started out with a loose idea in my head of using some gorgeous
vintage </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Chinoiserie</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">barkcloth</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> fabric that I purchased a few months ago. It was so stunning that it was love at first
sight. The problem is that it has a few
issues - a few holes here and there from age as well as some sun damage. Having come from the 40s, it also had it’s fair share of exposure to
cigarette smoke. I soaked the fabric in </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Oxi</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> Clean
for a few days as I shared <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/02/this-is-where-i-get-my-auntie-mame.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and it came out much brighter and better
smelling but the sun damage is still evident in spots. However, I am still determined to make this
fabulous Auntie </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Mame</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> situation work as a shower curtain. Gave it a trial run...</span></div>
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mirror. I mentioned last week that the matching spit catcher mirror
has got to go. Luckily I found a green and gold mirror at a </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">consigment</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> store
last week for the right price that I pounced on. I think the green will play </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">nicey</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> with
the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Chinoiserie</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> fabric. Done and
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design board using the elements I had earmarked. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">t all sort of just fell flat for me. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">And so begins my interior monologue
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exhaust fan. This will definitely glam
things up. Better but still a little </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">poo</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">-like.
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mayonnaise. And that light bar is just
not doing this any favors. If mister V
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jewelry. Perfect. But mister V is really going to kill me. Invasive work is piling up quickly - dry wall
patch for the vanity light, new electrical for sconces, mucho </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">dinero</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> for sconces, install separate exhaust
fan for shower and add additional outlet.
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and switch out the shower curtain fabric for something more understated. I don’t need fancy lights when I have that
fancy paper. But come to think of it,
that glam brass </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">sitch</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
has got to happen. And that mirror just
isn’t jiving with the paper. And the
light bar, while pretty, still isn’t doing any favors…</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic';"> <a href="http://furbishstudio.com/collections/decor/products/tortoise-mirror" target="_blank">vanity mirror</a></span></td></tr>
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Gold petals. Bam. Chintz and spots. Bam, bam. Oh look, and the missing bird. Kablammo. But what about that jewel box feel I was going for…</span></div>
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Maybe I should stick with painting the wall after all and only splurge
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but I am also sort of really obsessing over </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/domesticate" target="_blank">Domesticate’s</a></span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> Nicolette wallpaper and dots fabric combo paired with </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://furbishstudio.com/" target="_blank">Furbish’s</a></span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
tortoise mirror and gold petal sconces.
That, my friends, is right in my chintzy granny glam wheelhouse. Alas, this is real chez V life, and while not
off the charts </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">spendy</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, that room combo is beyond my budget</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">for
this project so I will likely land somewhere between the two spectrums. Plus, a promise is a promise, and I promised
the mister a minimally invasive makeover.
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-44007473448745304152014-10-03T11:26:00.000-04:002014-10-03T11:26:21.534-04:00Friday's Flowers and Gratitude<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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Friday for me </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">is always about flowers and </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">spiffing</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> up the
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Momma always gets fresh flowers from the market for her home for the
weekend and it is a ritual that I have happily carried on at my home – whether
it is picking up fresh cut flowers, cutting something from the yard, or
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There is some serious talent and inspiration in the <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/10/one-room-challenge-linking-event-round.html" target="_blank">bunch</a>. Your comments truly make my day. Truly.
As in I walk around most of the day chuckling about email </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">convos</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> with
all my </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">interwebs</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> friends - which can prove to be a little awkward at
times. I find myself referring to so and
so during a conversation with my mister or my sister about such and such, and
they are usually like, ‘who the hell is </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">xxxx</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">and how do you know her/him?’ </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Um.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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the internet/</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">instagram</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">/blog/</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">blahblahblah</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">…she/he absolutely adores booze/</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">chinoiserie</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">/art/gold/glitter/brass
animals/green/vintage/animal print/tiny weird cat </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">lols</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> and
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pause and serious side eye. ‘I’d really rather like to get on with the actual
act of enjoying my food/wine or getting to our actual destination already as
opposed to you always taking damn pictures of it.’
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-45735420190987219902014-10-02T06:19:00.001-04:002014-10-02T06:19:42.112-04:00One Room Challenge Linking Event - Week One<div style="direction: ltr; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Did you win the time before that?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Why are you doing it if you don’t win
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from friends and family if you participate in <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home’s</a> One Room
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">If you do another one, I will break
your fingers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">If you ignore me and do it again, I
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">If you completely disregard our 10 yr
marriage vows and disobey me, I will cut off your wine supply.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I will not help you anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I will not, absolutely paint another
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I am not swapping out any lights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Do not buy another lamp or rug or
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<span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I sanded your damn walls and hung your
stupid, old light fixture…</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
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hear from your spouse if you participate in <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home’s</a> One Room
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featured blogger or as a linking participant – as I have done both. No matter. It is a train wreck of real deal Holyfield
fun. In spite of threats of imminent divorce or people failing to understand the simple thrill of pulling a genie out of my hat in 6 weeks, I cannot deny
my design junkie ways. My nights will be
filled with boozy anxiety for the next six weeks while I participate again in the ORC <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2014/10/one-room-challenge-linking-event-round.html" target="_blank">linking event</a>.</span></div>
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because I am a procrastinator extraordinaire and an indecisive fickle </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">feck</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
wit. As a matter of fact, I decided to
do this one exactly three days ago. The
mister is less than pleased. He made me
promise both times that I would not do another one. But the ORC trials and tribulations are much
like pregnancy and labor. The further
away you get from the aftermath, you think it wasn’t so bad/hard/difficult/insane/painful/divorce-inducing/</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">neverhavingrelationsagain</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> labor. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">That’s where you would be wrong.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
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me manage expectation up front. I have
no plans to do any major demo work. The
tile(s), vanity, and shower hardware all have to stay per the mister’s
orders. The toilet is a Toto and is the only
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in the joint. Because it's a Toto and it flushes like the dickens. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">No lazy river here.</span></div>
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it. Boring. This was the absolute first DIY
project my husband and I tackled right after we got married. I did not even know how to use a power
drill. With one bathroom, it got sporty
with a quickness. That whole ‘don’t have
a pot to piss in’ became reality for two solid weeks. An orange Home Depot bucket in the back yard
did the trick but it proved to be the first of many tenuous moments in our
marriage involving DIY renovations.
Needless to say, by the time we got around to picking the fun stuff, I
just wanted to use the </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">loo</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. A matching
vanity/mirror situation sufficed along with a sad builder special vanity light
fixture. Little finishing details did
not get completed and they have annoyed me to no end - things like gaps in the crown molding and
bead board. A patch in the dry wall near
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my bird, you ask? </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Um.
</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Why I thought to hang that dumb cage on the wall is beyond me. In a fit of Cottage Living induced fantasy, I
thought it was a terrific idea to use a fallen barn beam as my pooper paper
holder and a random architectural piece to hold my towels. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Over it.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
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plan to do: switch out boob and vanity lighting, vanity
hardware and fingers crossed, faucet.
Get a new mirror because I hate the dumb matching mirror with the dumb
ledge. It is a gatherer of dust,
toothpaste spit, and water stains. Plus,
we have plenty of counter space and drawers.
I felt like now might be a good opportunity to depart from my typically
saturated color leanings and lighten things up a bit with a more neutral
palette. I would super love to switch
out my bathroom door for one with a frosted window to allow more light into the
very small space but after one afternoon of searching for vintage and new
options, I soon discovered that with a smaller non-standard door it was a </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">looney</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> pipe dream. Instead, I might go even darker. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Yeah, fickle </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">feck</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
wit.</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> I figure two
things: a small space might as well be
intimate and jewel-box like; secondly, I want my guests to feel glamorous and
magnificent when they powder their noses in my one little water closet. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Who feels glamorous and magnificent in
a milk carton? Who feels glamorous during an anxiety ridden tinkle wondering about a missing bird? </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">But
then again, I have been known to figure wrong a time or two. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Case in point, said dumb bird cage.</span></div>
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can tell you who has followed along my boozy design rides, the plan changes
quickly and often in these parts. I found an incredible stash of vintage chinoiserie barkcloth fabric a few months back that I intended to make into a shower curtain. Who knows if that will work out as it has damage in a few spots but it's got my head spinning for a fancy shower curtain sitch. Come to think of it, this might be a lot like the <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-room-challenge-week-five-painting.html" target="_blank">time</a> I painted the kitchen the same color as the kitchen. That BM Smoked Oyster I picked is looking dangerously close to the BM Davenport Tan that is already on the wall. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Oy</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">. </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">All I really know is that when I tell mister V that we
are painting yet another room, another part of him will die inside the fire swamps of design despair while he curls up in a ball whimpering, </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">‘as you wish…’</span></div>
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process often starts with an inspiration board filled with beautiful things I
cannot afford. But the plan gives me the
confidence to improvise on the fly when I see things that are similar in
feel but more affordable on the pocket
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exactly what I am looking for and will likely make it myself. I have a </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">loosey</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> goosey plan for some such chicanery but it is way
crazy, even for my standards, so I am keeping that one close to the vest, or
the chesty larue, in my case, for now to see if I can even begin to pull that </span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">shiz</span><span style="color: #e6b9b8; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> off. Anywho, since I am not a professional, I can use all the help I can get. I would love to hear what you would do in here.</span></div>
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Make no mistake – it is pure torturous anxiety tackling a room in 6
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of the pressure and connecting with so many of you. You can click on the ORC button on my side bar to see my previous two rooms. So, why don’t you join me in the fun? It is not too late to put on your big person
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-37883871955006243852014-09-11T12:01:00.000-04:002014-09-11T12:01:07.615-04:00Between the Sheets with Mrs. V<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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This is NOT a promo. This is a
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come up unsatisfied. Ever since <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-big-reveal-wk6-orc-challenge.html" target="_blank">redoing</a> my bedroom, I have been looking to up my bed game. The coral shams I used were merely a compromise because the set I wanted from <a href="http://www.craneandcanopy.com/products/coral-embroidered-sheet-set" target="_blank">Crane and Canopy</a> was on back order, and I have never been happy with the stand ins. As a matter of fact, the Vs have not been happy between the sheets for some time. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">Lest you go calling Dr. Ruth, remember, we are speaking of sheets.</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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of Egyptian cotton sheets with some crazy thread count, back in the day,
pre-child, when I had some discretionary </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">moola</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> and no brains. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">The
mister was furious because they were very </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">spendy</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">But the
jok</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">e was on him because</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">they are</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> most the comfortable sheets, EVER and have proven to be his
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become our gold standard for sheet approval.
</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I have supplemented the </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">rotation with other
sets, of similar thread count and touted quality as well as other more
affordable options known for comfort and </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">washability</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. All of which,
we hate. They are either too swishy, or
too rough, or too shiny, or just plain uncomfortable. Problem is, 8 years later, the gold standard
are kaput, worn out, and almost threadbare.
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cases are giving me headaches. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">B</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">ut then
again, it might also be that extra glass of wine. But that’s not the point, the point is, I
need help finding a sheet set that will pass muster. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">What kind of sheets do you swear by?!</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-82256841732491841722014-08-25T11:08:00.000-04:002014-08-25T11:18:56.867-04:00Living - Patio Perching<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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Summer for the V household. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Is it me or did this Summer just fly by?!</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> Thinking the unusually mild weather had
something to do with that sentiment but you won’t find me complaining about
it. I’ll take the mild weather any day. We were able to spend a lot of time on our
patio this Summer as a result. As my <a href="http://instagram.com/chezviviv" target="_blank">IG</a>
feed indicates, major patio perching happened filled with loads of simple,
seasonal fare and plenty o' wine</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;">.</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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was one of my first DIY projects. Long
and short of it is that I got a quote for it and the pond alone was in the $20K
range. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Um,
no. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I can’t afford to pay attention let alone pay that kind
of money for a water feature. So, my
mother-in-law and I tackled it ourselves. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I spoke
about the project <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2012/02/tales-from-projects-diy-paver-patio.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2012/06/tales-from-projects-enjoying-my-sweat.html" target="_blank">here</a> way back </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">when.</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
I also planted every tree and shrub (almost 60) on my property with the exception of the 3 huge trees in back and a few big pines in front. I was a busy gal but I saved a ton by doing it myself and now am thoroughly enjoying the fruits of my labor.</span></div>
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-24885536345802863962014-08-20T20:02:00.000-04:002014-08-20T20:02:05.387-04:00Living - Our Table<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-66655405337651328162014-08-14T11:19:00.000-04:002014-09-04T07:56:02.792-04:00Cocktailing with Mrs. V - Palm Beach style<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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May. Summer has been super busy with
work related projects but I am finally able to come up for air and give chez V
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deal of time social cocktailing on our patio.
Patio perching is a favorite pastime.
Many of my <a href="http://instagram.com/chezviviv" target="_blank">IG</a> posts involve some sort of perching situation as seen
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business. I have been known to create
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amazing online vintage marketplace that makes fueling my hunting frenzy that
much easier, asked me to style up my idea of the perfect home bar using inspiration from their vintage bar stool <a href="https://www.chairish.com/collection/barstools" target="_blank">collection</a>, I jumped at
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immediately landed on a pair of woven wicker and rattan stools which spoke to
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woven bar stools as my inspiration point, I designed a patio situation that
reflects my approach to outdoor living – bring the indoors out! </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I will drag my dining table out to the
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I was so smitten when I picked it up from my seamstress that I briefly
considered ditching the whole tablecloth idea in favor of wearing it like a
caftan, in a gloriously insane Scarlett
O’Hara meets Auntie </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Mame</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">kinda</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> way. It checks
every box for me. Chintz – check. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Chinoiserie</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> – check. Bright
colors – check. Vibrant pattern play –
check. Dressmaker details – check. My incredibly talented seamstress </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">turned
my vision </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">into reality. I
came to her with gobs of fabric and an idea of a floor length skirt including
Greek key trim and a contrast welt to ground the pattern. She, in turn, worked her magic and created a
stunning masterpiece. The pleating alone
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the wait</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.</span><br />
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and get right to </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">the reveal. But f</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">irst I
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you and congratulations to Linda of <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling </a></span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">It Home</a> for organizing this amazing challenge and
including me among such widely talented folks; a million</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> thank
you's go out to my mister without whom none of this would have been
possible - t</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">his ORC was another </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">down-to-the-wire
situation and there were more than a few moments when I really questioned
whether I could pull this off but thanks to the tireless efforts of my mister
and my in laws we accomplished a lot in six weeks for having done everything
ourselves; a</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">nd
last, but certainly not least, thank you to YOU for following along. All of your comments and well wishes kept
this party rocking. To see the entire
evolution of the room from </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">the beginning, click the following links below:</span></div>
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mrs. V | Chez V http://www.blogger.com/profile/06216639979136443554noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4708074126728847800.post-73153371778626084972014-04-30T06:30:00.000-04:002014-04-30T06:30:02.380-04:00One Room Challenge - Week Five - Painting, Lights, and Wallpaper<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
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crazy ride as I re-do the dine-in portion of my kitchen which involves
finishing out a banquette, upholstery, paint, wallpaper and lighting. As I type this, I am sort of in denial that I
have one week left to pull off this room. In true panicky fashion, I took to
cleaning my bathroom baseboards with a toothbrush this morning. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">So what. Tell me I’m not alone in </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">addressing looming deadlines with soul crushing
procrastination. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">To </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">catch
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and you will have seen these dreams that are made of these. And by dreams, I mean my recurrent </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">prepster</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> yet
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wallpaper, let’s revisit a few other obsessions of mine: color and lighting - two things that can
instantly transform any room. So last
week I was lamenting that we didn’t have paint on the walls due to </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-room-challenge-week-three.html" target="_blank">ElectricityGate</a></span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> but
now I am happy to report that the walls have been painted. <a href="http://www.sherwin-williams.com/" target="_blank">Sherwin-Williams</a> graciously provided the wall
paint and I could not be happier with the results. </span><br />
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corporate side impeccable but the guys at my local store are rock stars and
deserve a shout out. They are </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">always so helpful </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">whenever </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I am in there and even </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">helped </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">me with
my <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-room-challenge-week-two.html" target="_blank">floor </a></span><a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-room-challenge-week-two.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">stain/poly </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">sitch</span></a><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> when </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I wasn’t even for </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">shopping for floor </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">stuff! </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">I have painted
more than my fair share of stuff along the way and can say based on experience
that quality paint makes all the difference in the world. My family and I have been using
Sherwin-Williams products for a long time.
My front door is painted with SW paints as well as my kitchen cabinets
which I painted a few years ago and have stood up to our daily traffic
beautifully. I used the </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/products/catalog/proclassic_interior_acrylic_latex/" target="_blank">ProClassic</a></span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
Interior Acrylic Latex Enamel in white on the cabinets and plan on using more to repaint the
trim this week. For the kitchen walls, I
selected Great Green <a href="http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-family/SW6430-great-green/" target="_blank">SW 6430</a> in semi-gloss from the Emerald line which was color
matched to my wallpaper. The color is
very similar to what was previously on the walls but more pigmented. The Emerald line went on smoothly with
excellent coverage. But there was a
brief moment when the mister and I howled because when the paint was first
going up it looked identical to the previous color. However, once it began to dry, the deeper
pigmentation began to come through. With
tons of light, this kitchen can easily handle a deeper pigmented color. Officially living for this more mature color.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the what?! This looks like the same color that is already on the walls.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dried beautifully into a deeper, more mature green</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The color is quite smashing with the wallpaper</span></td></tr>
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I’m a vintage gal all the way when it comes to lighting. But there are certain occasions when I
stumble on a new light that simply cannot be ignored - like my </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Ranarp</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
<a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20231325/" target="_blank">sconces</a> and my Jonathan Adler </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">foo</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> dogs from my previous ORC <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-layered-retreat-my-orc-room-now.html" target="_blank">room</a>. And my Ballard Designs <a href="http://chezviviv.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-room-challenge-week-three.html" target="_blank">pendant</a> that I just
scored at the outlet for this room. Or
any of the multitude of great lamps at <a href="http://www.homegoods.com/" target="_blank">Home Goods</a>. <a href="http://www.lampsplus.com/" target="_blank">Lamps Plus</a> is another great source and
graciously provided us with lighting for this challenge. Now I have to say that I was blown away by
the sheer magnitude of the selection and not only just lighting. So many great choices that it was hard to
choose but I knew that I wanted some sconces flanking my vintage pagoda mirror
to add some ambient lighting to the banquette area. I selected Visual Comfort’s Bill Blass
library <a href="http://www.lampsplus.com/products/bill-blass-collection-french-library-wall-sconce__92511.html" target="_blank">sconces</a> in brass and again was blown away by Lamps Plus customer service, the
timeliness of delivery (only a few days!), and the quality of the light. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Very, very impressed</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.</span><br />
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hunk, Parapluie. The mister forgives me
my wallpaper dalliance with the express understanding that ‘</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Luie</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
replaces someone in my elevator. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Luie</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> plays </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">nicey</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> with the other kids in the sandbox, particularly the
sconces and my pagoda mirror. Sadly, it would seem that Parapluie in this green colorway is no longer available from <a href="http://www.scalamandre.com/wallcovering-products.html" target="_blank">Scalamandre</a> as I bought up the last remaining lot which just so happened to be the exact amount I needed #amatchmadeinheaven #sorrynotsorry. But you can find other Parapluie colorways via sku# WP88216 on the Scalamandre site. </span><br />
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already envisioning many a boozy night with lots of laughter and friends
sequestered comfortably on the banquette against </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Luie’s</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">beautimous</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">
backdrop. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Scratch.</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> Oh yes, the banquette, that elusive design
element. We still have to finish all of
our sewing for the banquette cushions and pillows, figure out art placement (got some great stuff coming from <a href="http://blog.thepinkpagoda.us/" target="_blank">Jennifer</a> at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/thepinkpagoda" target="_blank">The Pink Pagoda</a>!!!),
and I have yet to begin sourcing accessories.
Also, I have one major design element planned for the room that
literally pulls everything together like </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Lebowski’s</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> rug that will likely not be ready in time. </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">Wah</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">wah</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">wah</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: italic; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.
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big reveal but I still think it’s </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">gonna</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 14.0pt; language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-color-index: 5; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> be real good. This is what I've accomplished and lots more upholstery is what I got up my sleeve for this week...</span><br />
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backsplash this weekend? The mister hates me for real and for true.</span></div>
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tell you that based on the wallpaper alone, I will be obsessed with this room
for life or longer. Or at least for two
weeks until such time that I turn my sights to my outdoor patio room where
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://mynottinghill.blogspot.com/">My </a></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://mynottinghill.blogspot.com/">Notting</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://mynottinghill.blogspot.com/"> Hill</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://blog.thepinkpagoda.us/">The Pink Pagoda</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://simpledetailsblog.blogspot.com/">Simple
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://mysweetsavannah.blogspot.com/">My Sweet
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<span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic';"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A special thank you to the following sponsors and supporters of Chez V and The One Room Challenge that are graciously providing items to help me bring my vision for this room to life:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic';"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.sherwin-williams.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sherwin-Williams</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic';"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.lampsplus.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lamps Plus</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-style: italic;">All photos and styling by Emily </span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-style: italic;">Vanderputten</span><span style="color: #d99694; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-style: italic;"> unless otherwise noted</span></span></div>
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