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One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 5 | Shiplap time!

Welcome back to the One Room Challenge Fall 2017 week 5, it’s time to get our shiplap on!

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One Room Challenge Fall 2017 Week 5 Shiplap Time!

(This post has been sponsored by Metrie, all thoughts and opinions are my own)

This week we had some help from Metrie who offered their gorgeous Metrie Complete® Shiplap for our Modern Farmhouse Bathroom Makeover. The shiplap comes already primed and painted in “Polar White” which is a beautiful crisp white and you know I love me some white 😉

I have to say this was one of the easier projects for this challenge! We’ve applied shiplap before using thin plywood boards and made our own spaces using coins. With the tongue and groove feature on these shiplap boards there was no more watching our quarters and loonies rolling away on the floor! It was simpler to lay the boards and it looked so much more uniform. The fact that the boards are all pre-painted a beautiful satin finish also saved a lot of time. Instead of filling nail holes with wood filler, sanding then priming and painting, you fill in the holes with a wax and then buff. Metrie offers a Metrie Complete finishing kit with everything you need to finish your project:

How We Did it and What You’ll Need:

Find the studs in your wall with a stud finder.

2. Mark the studs and then use a chalk line or a level to mark them down the wall.

3. Some people start from the bottom, but I like to have full boards around the ceiling line. Place your first board with tongue side down and use a level to make sure your first board is level.

4. Add your boards and nail them using your nail gun. Where you nail into the tongue, you’ll need to fill in your nail hole before you place your next board. It’s much easier filling those holes before you add the next board. (Don’t ask me how I know!)

5. To fill in your holes, use your wax stick or putty jar. I mostly used the wax stick.

6. You can use your scraper card or a putty knife to remove any excess wax.

7. Use the abrasion pad to buff out and smooth the area.

8. We applied cove molding to the ceiling and in the corners to make the seams uniform. we also caulked with Metrie’s caulking. All the products in the Builder finishing kit comes in the same “polar white” colour as the shiplap so that everything matches.

Yes that’s my famous camouflage plant! I’m using it to hide those unsightly pipes sticking out of the floor.

There is still a lot to do. I’m so grateful for the added week!

We still need to grout the floor tile.
Once the floor tile is grouted we’ll be able to put on the last two pieces of subway tile near the floor.
Add the baseboards.
Finish the caulking
Clean up the ceiling
Put the ceiling fan back on. (Still not sure why that is off lol!)
Put the vanity together and pray it fits!
Bring the toilet back in.
Hang the mirror.
Install the taps and hardware.

Thanks so much for joining along on our makeover/reno challenge! Just a reminder that a week has been added onto our schedule, so the final reveal will be on November 16th. To see some more makeover/renos you can follow along with all the other bloggers and designers here.

Blessings,

Kim

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One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 1 | Our Modern Farmhouse Bathroom

8:54 pm by kim 14 Comments

One Room Challenge Fall 2017 | Week 1

Call me crazy but I’m doing it again! This will be my second time participating as a guest in the biannual room makeover series called the One Room Challenge hosted by Linda from Calling it Home. Twenty featured design bloggers are chosen to participate, as well as 200 plus guest Participants to make over a room in six weeks! So much decor and makeover inspiration to check out on the ORC site….And so the madness begins…again!

To say I’m a little nervous is an understatement! The last time I participated in the One Room Challenge we were making over our office space. We applied board and batten, hung a barn door and the rest was decor and cosmetic changes. This time around we will be making over our small main bathroom and there will be demoing involved people, Eek! This bathroom is used by my daughters when they come to visit and stay in the guest room. When it’s clean and the shower curtain is pulled across, it can almost look pretty. I even had my daughter do a fresh coat of paint on it a few months back. But that black tile has been the bane of my existence (a little dramatic I know) since we bought our home. It’s the one thing I told my husband had to go! The vanity was passible when we first moved in but it has served it’s purpose and is ready to go as well. So let me share this room with you.

Here is the before (It sounds better than right now, because these photos are a little embarrassing!) Please don’t judge. Yes there is a missing knob on the vanity door.

Maybe I wasn’t being too dramatic when I said that the black tile was the bane of my existence?!

So let’s move on to what I hope our after will look like:

Mood board

So here is the moodboard/vision I have for my new Modern Farmhouse Bathroom:

I placed all my favourite things in this moodboard to achieve this modern farmhouse look. It’s a look that will go well with my coastal farmhouse/cottage vibe I have going on in the rest of my home and I love every element from colour to texture.

Plan of Action

Remove the black tile and replace with plain white subway tile.
Apply white modern shiplap by Metrie to the rest of the room.
Change out the hardware in the shower/tub stall.
Do something creative with the floor tiles.
Remove the old vanity and replace it with something more up to date.
Remove the builder basic mirror and replace it with a new round one.
Remove the old lighting and replace it.
Add accessories, shower curtain, waste basket, stool etc.

It’s exhausting just reading this! You can find all the other participants here. Don’t forget to check back next week to follow along with the process as well as to check if the hubby and I are still alive and married… Okay let’s get this party started.. Honey, get the hammer!

Hello again and sharing my summer home

5:03 pm by kim 4 Comments

Well It’s been a long time I know.

If there is still anybody out there and you can hear me…

I’m coming back!

I’ve decided to start blogging again.

I’ll share more of the details in another post but for now… I’ll share a little bit of my summer home with you all.

Better late than never.

There have been so many changes made in my little home over the last while that I can’t wait to share with you! If you follow me on Instagram you will have seen some of them but not all.

In the master bedroom I’ve changed my floors, headboard and wall colour, I’ll share more of that in some upcoming posts so stayed tuned!

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