Friday Fun Nuggets and Some Chez V Love

Happy Friday!  So I have a few fun nuggets to share with you today. First, I promised you kind folks the great story about locating the elusive Ranarp sconces for my ORC bedroom.  If you will recall from this post, both Elizabeth from Little Black Door and myself were feverishly hunting for them as they were sold out EVERYWHERE. Well pretty please with sugar on top kindly head on over to Little Black Door for Fess Up Friday to hear our story about locating the coveted Ranarps through the kindness of strangers!

Next up, my ORC bedroom is being featured on a little house tour over at Julia Ryan, the brilliance formerly known as Pawley's Island Posh. Um, major!   Please go check it. 

Moving right along, the lovely Linda, blogger extraordinaire of Calling It Home and mastermind behind the One Room Challenge tagged me yesterday on one of those THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME kind of posts.  So I need to get on that pronto.  Maybe two posts in one day?!  Oh who am I kidding – all this love is going right to my big fat head.  Answers coming soon!

So, yes, I'm feeling pretty legit right about now with all this Chez V love because I have massive respect and admiration for these uber talented lady friends.  To be featured on their blogs is huge for little ol' Chez V. Forgive me the humble brag!  This ORC has been a lot like The Giving Tree, just keeps giving and giving.

And finally, to pass the love on, I was so happy to hear that Scot Meacham Wood is getting an editorial of his swoon-worthy home in the December issue of House Beautiful.  Seriously.  This man can layer a room like no other!  And that wall color!  Gah!  What a design talent!  So well deserved Scot!  Can not wait for mine to arrive in the mailbox!

So again, Happy Friday folks!  Go spread the love today!

kisses,  mrs. V

ORC Reveal Part Deux

Well gee whiz, thank you all so much for the incredible feedback on my ORC room.  What a whirlwind!  To be completely honest, there were many moments when I doubted whether I could pull it all together in time.  Staring down the barrel of WK5 with no paint yet on the walls put a serious hitch in my optimistic giddyup.    But in the end, the room exceeded even my expectations.  I am so so in love with the way everything came together - which is a great thing since I happen to be the client in this case.

 

As a matter of fact, I am having ORC withdrawal.  I have forgotten how much I thrive when working on a deadline.  I might be a procrastinator extraordinaire in many areas but throw a challenge and a deadline at me and I will attempt to run through brick walls to find a solution.  The experience and lessons learned during my corporate days in lean manufacturing as a problem-solving expert come in handy every now and again.

But back to the room.  I promised to share sources and stories about the pieces with you, and so I shall soon enough.  But first, some more vignette shots that did not make it in on reveal day as well as some sunny ones I took today because last Wednesday was raining cats and dogs when I shot the reveal pics.  So the room was not captured in its best light, so to speak.

  

Tomorrow we will take a look back at the BEFORES and my original design plan compared with the finished result as well as covering the sources in the room.  Thank you again for the overwhelming support!  Love ya, mean it!

kisses,  mrs. V

The Big Reveal - WK6 ORC Challenge

The big day is here kiddos and the big question is, ‘did she or didn’t she get that damn room painted?!’  I know, I know, enough about the damn paint already.  First things first, a huge shout out to my mother from another mother, Linda from Calling it Home for orchestrating the ever popular ORC and for extending the link up opportunity.  What a great and terrifying ride it has been.  Sort of nervous for the big reveal but I super love the results and now have a enveloping sanctuary to retire to at day’s end.  I feel like it is very close to the original design plan I put together.  To start from the beginning, click the links below:  

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I chose our master bedroom for the makeover as it has been woefully ignored since the day I moved in to Chez V 8 yrs ago.  I operated with a major budget and all the work was done by the V’s – meaning the mister, myself, and my in-laws.  Most of the items are vintage, having been collected over time and borrowed from other areas of my house and others are from discount places like IKEA, Home Goods, Home Emporium, RugsUSA, and Tuesday Morning.  Almost all the artwork I have had for some time with the exception of the incredible Jenny Andrews Anderson piece of MFAMB which I purchased late one night a few weeks ago and seriously, it is everything - it is my 4th piece of hers and I just love her work so.  I purchased the African etchings that are hanging above the bed 7 yrs ago, knowing that the right opportunity would present itself and they turned out to be perfect for the Old World chinoiserie safari vibe I had in mind.

 

I created a dragon block print for lumbar pillows, handpainted gold detailing, and made tassels to give them a little extra oomph.  I am also happy to report that my lighting sitch turned out spectacularly. The coveted Ranarps were located thanks to Elizabeth of Little Black Door, I succeeded in turning the vase I found at a consignment shop into a lamp, and the foo dog bedside lamps provide a humorous counterpoint to the oh so amazing scene stealing chandelier, which I located at an antique mall months ago and with which I am having a full on love affair.  But enough with the details, more pictures…

I will be following up with a more detailed post covering lessons learned, paintmaggedon, sources and any how-to's in which you might be interested.  Just give me a shout in the comments.

Many thanks to you for checking in with me each week.  Your support has been pivotal in keeping me on track.  I would be totally remiss if I did not thank my husband and my in-laws, without whom none of this would have come together.  To my mommacita, for instilling your hoarding tendencies as I was able to pull this room together with mostly collected and childhood items as well as a few of yours. ;)  And last, but certainly not least, to my 5 yr old who patiently put up with my craziness this week and gladly ate PB & Js 4 nights in a row.  Muchas gracias mi familia!

Let’s go check out everyone else’s reveal!

All photos taken by me

kisses,  mrs. V