I'm in the final stretch of the One Room Challenge and I miiiiiiiiight be panicking just a wee bit! It has really come along, it's been cleared out and cleaned and all of the large furnishings are in as well as some of the accent pieces. My husband was gone this weekend on a hiking trip so I was able to really spend some time in this patio space and rethink the original space plan that I had come up with. Sometimes it's fun for my to just be experimental and play around with

Good news! All of the large outdoor furnishings arrived this week! I was ridiculously excited when the delivery truck pulled up in the driveway! Even though I have quite a ways to go as far as finishing the decluttering process and finding all of the accent pieces, it's already looking so much better than it did when I first started on this journey! I've already been enjoying coffee in the mornings out here as well as working from my laptop in the afternoons. I can already te

This is a weird week on the ORC. I just returned from one week at High Point Furniture Market and am just getting my bearings again. The latest update is, that we are in the waiting zone! The large furnishings have been picked out and ordered, I have picked up a few accents here and there as I've been out and about and have been focusing on clearing out the space so that when the furniture arrives later this week I can hit the ground running! Here is a reminder of what my moo

Week two of One Room Challenge! You're probably wondering why I'm showing you a photo of my Japanese house shoes, right? I'm sharing it because sometimes inspiration can come in the strangest places. These are a pair of shoes that my son brought home for me from Japan after he studied there for a few weeks as part of his Japanese class. Navy blue and especially Indigo are my favorite colors believe it or not. The shoes with the natural textured sole just checked all of the bo

Anyone that knows me, KNOWS that I LOVE me a challenge! I am constantly running them in my Design+Style Facebook Community of designers! This time, I decided that it was time to jump into one that someone else was leading! I was totally enamored and inspired by Old Brand New's One Room Challenge project last Fall found HERE. First of all, I had no idea that you could do a patio project, so when I saw the one that Old Brand New did, it was a full body YES! My patio as you will