ORC Week Seven: Budget Slat Wall DIY (not using plywood!)

I’ve seen tons of diy tutorials for slat walls using plywood to save money. Let me tell you, I thought I too was going to have to use plywood to save money, because WOOD IS EXPENSIVE! I found the perfect wood for the wall. There was just one problem. It would have cost $650+ to…

ORC Week Five: Over Halfway to the Finish Line!

We have passed the halfway point in this one room challenge, and luckily I’m so excited to be more than halfway done! This week was a big one! I finished the fireplace wall, and I’m so happy with how it turned out. We hung our budget friendly diy shiplap. {You can find the tutorial here.}…

ORC Week Four: Let’s Build a Mantle

This week we wrapped up the concrete portion of the fireplace and built a mantle! I also went shopping for the materials for the tv wall. I’ll share more on that next week! Let me start by saying, it would’ve been much easier to build the mantle like we built our open shelves. You can…

ORC Week Three: Concrete Fireplace DIY

In week three of the One Room Challenge we started the rebuild process of our concrete fireplace. Here are the 4 parts to our fireplace wall: DIY shiplap wallWooden mantle Concrete fireplace, andWooden seat This week we worked on the concrete part. It felt like the logical first step. It’s messiest. The one we know…

ORC Week Two: Boho Living Room {Fireplace Demo}

Week 2 of ORC has been a fun one! Seriously! This week I tackled something I had never done before and it was so satisfying! I took apart our fireplace piece by piece… including all THREE mantles & a mirror! I also polled the masses, because I quite possibly have the most indecisive brain on…

DIY Patio with Retaining Wall + Fire Pit

Last summer our girls got a swing set for their birthday! We love letting them play, but didn’t like not having a place to sit comfortably in our backyard to watch them. And we felt too far away from them our our 2 story deck. So I came up with a plan to create a…