Hi All! Just a quick update on the Spring One Room Challenge…which was supposed to begin at the start of April. Given the unprecedented state of the world, the Nation-wide One Room Challenge (ORC for short) has been rescheduled tentatively for a May 7th start date. And while that means official blog posts won’t begin until then, all the participants got an email saying to go ahead and start at any time and work on it at whatever pace worked for you.

Our project is a bedroom, currently belonging to my daughter (AKA the Diva), and eventually a guest room. Given the state of things at the moment a guest room doesn’t seem pressing, so it is more her room at this point. And in honor of the Diva, the space is inspired by her vintage hat collection and will have a sort of vintage secret garden feel. She refers to the project as the Vintage Diva Glamour Den. We’ve been counting down the days to kickoff with a daily photo of the Diva in a hat from her collection paired with a paint palette possibility for the room inspired by the hat. Of course, the countdown got extended by a month…but fear not, the Diva has a LOT of hats and things that COULD be hats, and, of course, hat-shaped objects that are not, in fact, hats…desperate times call for desperate measures!

We are participating for the first time this spring as a guest. Traditionally, the challenge is for designers and bloggers to each complete a space all in the same 6 week window and chronicle the ups and downs of the project in weekly posts linked thru the One Room Challenge website.

Obviously, a 6 week timeline is challenging for ANY full project under ordinary circumstances, and is nearly impossible with all the current unknowns - Can things be delivered at all? If so, when? Are the workrooms open to fabricate all the elements? Can we get the trades in to do the installation? Can we even buy things to finish and style the space right now? And how do we get it photographed? We shall see! Time to get creative not only with the design, but also in how it is executed!

So far we have started the editing process (read - she has cleared out a bunch of stuff and dumped it in the lower level of the house…mostly out of sight and sort of out of the way), and procured a new bed frame in a FB marketplace transaction involving social distancing, and we are in the process of ordering some of the key ingredients for the design.

If you are all about the hats and the colors (which are all Benjamin Moore paint colors), you can see our hat/color pairings as they come out daily on our Facebook page and as they post on our Instagram

Stay Tuned for the upcoming ORC posts!