One Room Challenge Linking Event - Week Two

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Week 2 of the One Room Challenge™ is squarely upon us and I have yet to commit to any major decisions for the bathroom.  Yikes.  

To follow along from the beginning, you can click below on each weekly link. My One Room Challenge™ schedule will likely go as follows:

WEEK 1:  Plan + Space

WEEK 2:  Process

WEEK 3:  Progress + Setbacks

WEEK 4:  Lighting + Paint

WEEK 5:  Plan Revisions

WEEK6:  Reveal

This is where reality comes into play – real life, real time, real budget.  Going into this ORC, I am determined to minimize any 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.  Bummer.  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.  Bigger bummer.  Those few options are downright dreadful.  Dashed are my hopes of a glam brassy/chrome light over the loo 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 landy 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 fiasco.  And so begins LightingGate.

Moving on to fabric.  I started out with a loose idea in my head of using some gorgeous vintage Chinoiserie barkcloth 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 Oxi Clean for a few days as I shared here, 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 Mame situation work as a shower curtain.  Gave it a trial run...

Next.  The vanity 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 consigment store last week for the right price that I pounced on.  I think the green will play nicey with the Chinoiserie fabric.  Done and done. 

But problems began once I started playing around with a design board using the elements I had earmarked.  It all sort of just fell flat for me.  And so begins my interior monologue otherwise known as ORCGATE…

light | paint

This is fine.  But fine like lima beans.  Or maybe it’s not fine.  Wait, it’s kind of like baby poo.  It’s a naked baby poo room with a fancy burp cloth.

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To hell with the mister.  I am adding that brass overhead fixture.  It can’t be that bad to run a separate exhaust fan.  This will definitely glam things up.  Better but still a little poo-like.  Maybe I should lighten things up…

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 paint

Boogers.  Boogery mayonnaise.  And that light bar is just not doing this any favors.  If mister V is going up in the attic to run an exhaust fan he could drop some electric lines for sconces while he is up there…

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 sconces

Ah…now we are getting somewhere.  Those petal sconces are like gold 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 dinero for sconces, install separate exhaust fan for shower and add additional outlet.  Maybe I should wallpaper instead…

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wallpaper | fabric

Let the wallpaper be the showstopper 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 sitch 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…

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 vanity mirror

Tortoise.  Bam.  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…

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wallpaper

Dark and moody.  Bammalammadingdong.  But purple.  And spendy.  Waaay spendy with all the everythings.  Maybe I should stick with painting the wall after all and only splurge on a few things…

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And so goes the design cha cha.  I am obsessed with my Chinoiserie fabric but I am also sort of really obsessing over Domesticate’s Nicolette wallpaper and dots fabric combo paired with Furbish’s 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 spendy, that room combo is beyond my budget 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.  But then again, I also promised not to do another ORC for a very long time…

Check back next week to see which direction I have gone and be sure to check out all the other linking participants here.

And you can always follow along instantaneously via Instagram @chezviviv.

All design, and layouts by Emily Vanderputten

kisses,  mrs. V