OUR SEATTLE CRAFTSMAN, SPACESLauren CaronMay 31, 2021one room challenge, ORC, ORCBHG, work in progress, Our Seattle Craftsman, OurSeattleCraftsman, ourseattlecraftsmanComment

Spring 2021 One Room Challenge: Weeks 3 & 4

OUR SEATTLE CRAFTSMAN, SPACESLauren CaronMay 31, 2021one room challenge, ORC, ORCBHG, work in progress, Our Seattle Craftsman, OurSeattleCraftsman, ourseattlecraftsmanComment

If you’re new around here, thanks for stopping by and welcome! I am Lauren Caron, an interior designer and the founder of Studio Laloc, an interior design firm based in Seattle, Washington. On the side my husband and I are remodeling our home that I’ve given its own hashtag #ourseattlecraftsman. We’ve renovated our kitchen, scullery, powder room, and in the last One Room Challenge, we refreshed our dining room. I’m excited to be participating as a guest again and hope you’ll follow along as we remodel the next space.

Remember when I said we were going to participate in this season’s One Room Challenge? Well…. reality check. We’re participating, but I’ve come to accept that there is NO possible way that we’ll be able to finish in time. The past several weeks have just been extremely busy with work, for both my husband and I. And in an effort to not turn our lives completely upside-down, we’ve decided that sleep is more important than finishing this project in 8 weeks. We of course are still chipping away at the project. I have been coordinating orders and doing the small details like bringing the artwork to the framer, purchasing the paints, and finalizing the details with my upholsterer and seamstress. I’ve also been working on having us move into the guest bedroom for the next few weeks so that I can get the bed room painted, while Jack continues to work on the closet build-out.

And about that build-out. Well if you were on IG this weekend you’d know that I made a bit of a mistake in my drawings and miss-calculated the depth of the closet bays. Luckily Jack only built one section of the three sections so far, so we were able to pivot and make changes happen before it was too late.

This catch also came at a good time, because I was just about to order hardware for the closet doors. If I had ordered before this, I would have had several rods that were cut too long. Once we realized that the depth was incorrect I ended up having to adjust the size of the center cabinet doors. Which in turn means we’ll have to order shorter rods.

My new plan of action is to move us into the guest bedroom and to work on getting the bedroom painted and ready for the reveal date. We’ll keep plugging away at the closet, but I’m not going to run myself ragged if I can’t finish in time.

We do these challenges because it motivates us to get projects going in our home, but I also don’t think they have to be completed in the 6-8 week time frame if it’s unrealistic.

Us moving into the guest bedroom is pending on me finishing that space enough to have it photographed for my collaboration with The Inside. So in a way we’re doing three rooms at once currently. I’m almost complete with the guest bedroom, I’ll plan to photograph it this week, then we’ll move in and I’ll get to work on painting the bedroom.