The Big Reveal

It’s the finale of the Fall One Room Challenge and I couldn’t be happier with how this room turned out! It feels like it was a very long road to get here but we are finished and just in the nick of time for the holidays! Now, you have to know that I’m being very creative with the word “finished” right now! 😂 We are finished with the challenge and we are ready for our Thanksgiving guests to arrive, but there are some finishing touches that still need to take place in this room. 

Once all this messy stuff was finished, we were able to take up the floor protection paper and the scrap pieces of carpet. We then vacuumed, swept and mopped the floor to get rid of all the sawdust and debris. Hello beautiful wood floors – we've missed you! 🥰

We then brought in the lovely Chris Loves Julia x Loloi rug and rolled it out on the floor! This is by far my very favorite rug and it looks so amazing with the wall color. And, it also complements the oak flooring beautifully.  We then brought in the desk and it was so heavy!😅 We had to rest 3 times between the garage and upstairs!😂 The desktop turned out a little darker than we had hoped, and we may try a technique to lighten it a little, but there’s no time to fool with that before our guests arrive for Thanksgiving next week.  

One of the things that I’ve been most excited about with this project is finally having some bookcases to display some of my treasured pieces. So, naturally I’ve been styling them in my mind for months! I love a house with a lot of built-ins and well, this house has none....until now! Guess we will have to work to change that! Do I have a new project brewing?! Maybe.......but let’s keep it between us.....I think Doug needs a break!😂 

So, let’s talk about the punch list of things that still need to happen. I’m going to have to buy myself an office chair. I wanted to use the caned wing back but it’s not tall enough and even if we put pretty casters on it, it will not be tall enough. It’s a great chair though and I’m going to use it as a side chair. Let’s be real though, Coconut will probably clock in countless hours in that chair! 🐈 The mid-century modern chair turned out 1000% better than I ever imagined! Kudos to Doug for wanting to buy that chair. I’ll admit that I didn’t want it but I’m so glad we got it. The desk still needs a coat of polyurethane, but we are going to try to lighten it a bit before applying poly.

Every time I walk by this room, I fall in love with it just a little bit more. I’ll be excited to start working in here soon!  Can we just give each other about a gazillion high fives right now?! We are so tickled with the way this room turned out!💕 

Don’t forget to check out the other participants’ projects. There are so many exciting reveals coming your way this week!  You can check out this week’s progress by checking out the One Room Challenge blog and see what others have done! There are so many great projects out there and now that I’m finished with mine, I’m going to go and cheer my friends on! 

I will have all of the products and decor I used in this project saved on my LTK which you can access here, but you can also click directly on them below. 

Here’s a list of the products we used this week: