Fall 21 ORC Week Eight: The Reveal

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It’s week eight of the One Room Challenge which means it’s REVEAL DAY!!! Our new family room is hands down the biggest project we’ve taken on in our home, and we couldn’t be happier with the final result. We put our all into this space over the past eight weeks, and even though we did most of the work ourselves, it’s still hard to believe this is the same room we started with. As a reminder, here is how this room looked before:

Before completing the One Room Challenge, this was an area of our home we never spent time in. It was incredibly dark with one fluorescent light fixture, popcorn ceilings, wall paneling, old carpet, and a dark red tiled fireplace. Simply put, it was pretty ugly, but we saw potential for it to become a space we truly love spending time in. With a lot of hard work, late nights, and weekends, we’re so happy to say WE DID IT! We won’t keep you waiting any longer, here’s the reveal!!

The Rosemarie Rug by Loloi is absolutely stunning and the perfect color palette for our family room! It ties everything together so beautifully with shades of sage, blush, and cream, and it’s incredibly soft. We love the Loloi rugs in our living and dining rooms, and this one might be our favorite yet!

I’ve been a big fan of Loop Living since discovering Eli’s small business about a year ago. Her planters are beautifully handcrafted out of spun metal, and we were so excited to have them as a partner on our One Room Challenge makeover!

We love the Samsung Frame TV in our living room and decided to get another one for our family room. The artwork displayed here is Ruthie’s Meadow from Juniper Print Shop. They have so many beautiful digital prints to choose from, and you can easily upload them to your TV to instantly change the whole mood of your room!

This was our first time resurfacing a fireplace, and we spent a lot of time watching YouTube videos to figure out what would work best. We used a quick concrete product called Ardex Feather Finish and we’re so unbelievably happy with how it turned out! If you haven’t read it yet, we have a blog post about the resurfacing process.

We were over the moon when HomePop reached out about partnering on our One Room Challenge makeover! We knew their Emerson Wingback chair would be the perfect piece for our reading nook, and it’s such a comfortable spot to curl up with a book. The floor lamp for this corner was backordered and unfortunately didn’t make it in time for the reveal, but it’ll arrive in the next few weeks!

The built-in bookcase was another huge project in this room, but we didn’t have time to share much about it before the reveal. This was entirely Zach’s plan using IKEA Billy Bookcases and Oxberg Doors, and he’ll have a blog post on the step-by-step process up soon!

Some of my favorite decor pieces have to be our pillows from Layered at Home. They’re made from Turkish rugs and are one of a kind, making each one so special!

Thank you so much to our incredible partners who helped make our family room transformation possible! We couldn’t have done it without you:

And a HUGE congratulations to all of our fellow Fall 2021 ORC participants! Everyone worked so hard on their room transformations and the final reveals are absolutely beautiful!