Eeeeek! The end is in sight! So much activity has occurred in the last couple of days on the One Room Challenge Dressing Room Do-Over Project. We are getting close…and we juuuuust might make the deadline!

If you are new to the NestFeathers Blog, Welcome! We are just winding down on a One Room Challenge Project and this is the update for this week on what has been happening! For more by way of explanation of what the One Room Challenge (ORC for short) is and where we started with this 8 week timed project, see week 1.

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4/5 | Week 6

Getting this project done by the deadline depends on several things…most of them hinge on me and a close encounter with a gallon of white paint. Not my favorite activity. I am not a particularly good or meticulous painter which is why I rarely opt to try doing it myself. But time is of the essence and I am the only one available right now, so fingers crossed that I will manage this with a minimum of mess. Blessedly, most of it will be shelves and partitions and things that are not horribly obvious at a glance!

The last two or three days have been exciting though! My wallpaper arrived - special thanks to sponsor Brewster Wallcovering for this fabulous paper! It is peel and stick paper and could not have been easier to hang. You simply line up the piece and start peeling off the backing paper smoothing it down as you peel.

It is even easily repositionable if you make a mistake! This was my first experience with peel and stick wallpaper and boy do I wish ALL wallpaper was made this way! It would be the perfect solution for a rental home or a dorm room as it is so easy to remove.

I even used it to cover the outlet cover that is on the back wall of the closet to camouflage it. I even managed a pretty good pattern match. Why is there an outlet in the closet??? Well, as I may have mentioned in week 1, this closet was added to what used to be the main bedroom wall before we added on and expanded the size of the master suite.

And here is the finished wallpaper in the closet. Next, the carpenter will install the newly built partitions and shelves, and add back the baseboard.

Today the partitions and some of the shelves got installed…yippee!! The rest of the boards are in the garage awaiting me and my paintbrush. Tomorrow will be an all paint day, and then the carpenter will come back to finish up the interior and work on the doors.

The existing bifold doors will be turned into pivot hinged double doors so that they open completely. This also allows me to use the interior side of the doors for more organization! This will be accomplished by affixing pegboard sheets to the inside of the doors to allow for repositionable hooks for belts, etc. New magnetic latches and repositioned door knobs will finish the door transformation and I will FINALLY have useful closet doors that don’t fight back every time I try to operate them!

In other exciting news, my GORGEOUS window treatments were delivered by the workroom today! I won’t install them until the closet is done and I can move in my room, because right now, it looks like the back room of a clothing store in here…I have to shimmy between racks to get to my dresser and dive under clothes to find my shoes.

We are practically on a first name basis with the delivery truck drivers at this point - it feels like they show up multiple times a day…we’ve been accruing boxes with dividers, and jewelry trays, hangers, and hardware!

And the most recent arrival was our handles for the closet drawers. I wanted lucite and silver toned drawer pulls and I wanted them long because the drawers are almost 30” wide and I didn’t want to have two handles that would require two hands to operate. I was so delighted when I found these beauties that are 14” long on Etsy!! I ordered them with expedited shipping and they arrived in just 4 days! And they were extremely well packaged with multiple layers of bubble wrap.

The other exciting piece of news is that my ottoman is done and ready for pickup this week from the geniuses at my upholstery workroom!! And it is soooo cute! I had it rehabbed and covered in a cleanable performance fabric in this robins egg blue and white basketweave pattern. I can’t wait to bring it home

So that’s it for this week…I’m off to bond with a paintbrush…hopefully not literally....wish me luck! The next ORC post will be the reveal of whatever state we are in - hopefully completely done! I can’t believe I am so close to having this project finally finished!

In the meantime, check out the inspiration and progress of the rest of the One Room Challenge participants HERE