I’m participating in the One Room Challenge (ORC) put on by Calling it Home.  I am linking up with them as a guest participant! Check out all of the reveals in week 6!

I really wish we had a final reveal today, but I knew that would not be probable from the beginning. While this is “week 6,” it has only been 5 weeks since we started the project. The week 1 post basically came on day 1 for us. In addition, we both work full time and didn’t hire any of the work out. My hope is that anyone visiting from the one room challenge will follow me until the final reveal because the best is yet to come!

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I promise a highly functional unique pretty mudroom that you won’t want to miss 🙂

Here’s what we were up to this week:

Last week we were debating on locker lights. We needed more light in the room since the overhead light we picked has just one bulb, and the gooseneck lights will be directed down at the desk. However, the electrical cost of adding lights to the lockers was more expensive than just buying a different overhead light. Plus, I was nervous that the lights on the lockers would look weird. So here’s what we decided on – Parker would do the electrical to significantly lower the cost, and we decided to move the location of the lights from the middle of the lockers to the top (see below). After lots of thinking and worrying and debating, I think we landed on the best option!

Here is the fixture we have chosen for each locker light

Parker did all of the electrical work, and we hung the goosenecks! Love them!

We got some paint samples

We moved our desk (with new top) into the room to get a better feel and to give you a better idea of what the room will end up looking like.

When we were picking up the paint samples, we ended up being in the right place at the right time. Parker was asking a few questions about the products we might use to paint the cabinets, and a professional cabinet painter walked in. He gave us lots of helpful advice and also gave us his card in case we have any questions. Love when stuff like that happens!

Lots of work is coming up this week. Our trim is arriving this Friday (a week early), which is perfect because we are ready for it! We ordered a few single pieces of crown and architrave to try to customize our own crown molding, so we will figure that out first. Once we know what pieces we are going to need to build the crown, we will order more of those pieces. Parker will then also be able to start the lockers since he will know how much space is needed at the top. I’ll be here next week updating you again, so I hope you will join me!

To summarize our One Room Challenge:

Check out week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, and week 5 to see how we’ve gotten this far and where we want to end up!

Done:

• create entry to garage
• floors
• benches
• electrical and 2/7 lights hung
• ordered new desk top, hooks, trim

Still to do:

• build lockers
• figure out what crown molding will look like
• install baseboards and window/door casings
• install crown
• paint lockers and trim
• farmhouse moldings on walls
• paint walls
• hang hooks
• hang remaining lights
• finishing touches
• build stairs in the garage to lead up to the mudroom door

I’m sure we still have a few weeks left, but each week should give me something fun and new to share! See you back next week!

Jalene

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