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DIY Mud Room with vertical shiplap planks, hooks, 2x6 counters, and storage bench Reveal

Homespun House 2.0

Coming soon!

In the meantime…read more about a few projects that are making our second house feel like home:

DIY Old World Mud Room Reveal | One Room Challenge | Week 7

DIY Nursery Closet Shelving System

Fun, Colorful Laundry Room | One Room Challenge Reveal

Vintage Toy Nursery Reveal

Hello! I'm Laura. I use antiques, thrift store finds, and a heavy dose of elbow grease to make our house a home, and I write about it here at Homespun by Laura. From DIY to sewing, you'll find DIY ideas to solve your home decor dilemmas. Pull up a seat and stay awhile!

homespunbylaura

Jack of all trades; master of none.
DIY. Sewing. Travel. Drawing and fabric design. Mama to two 🎀. Learning to enjoy the process.

Laura
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There’s still more work to do in this space, but There’s still more work to do in this space, but in addition to looking amazing it’s also functional so I’m taking a break for a few weeks. I’m mulling over the curtain situation for now, and my hands are achy from holding the paintbrush & screwdriver. New counters will be installed in December, and after that I can finish installing the board & batten and finish all the other small tasks (see current story)! Until then, I’m switching gears to stitch up some little nightgowns, finally finish our stockings (…15 years later!), and diy a mouse doll house! 🎅🏻🧵
If you don’t look carefully, you might think thi If you don’t look carefully, you might think this amazing bathroom project is done! If you do look carefully, you can find all the unfinished bits and pieces - I challenge you to count them and leave your guess in the comments! Later on I’ll point them all out (and the ones not pictured) in my stories. 🫣 Like so many other rooms in this house, this bathroom transformed from brown & boring to fun & colorful in (approximately) 8 weeks, thanks to the @oneroomchallenge. This is the sixth space I’ve ORC’d in this house after completing three in our old house (one of which was so bad it took 2 ORCs to finish!), making it my 10th - and I think I only completed one of them “on time”! I’ll wrap up a few small items this week to make the room fully useable and after the new marble counters are installed in December, I’ll add the battens around the counter and finish up the remaining fun to-do items. I love seeing the changes that have been living in my head become a reality, and I’m so excited to see the rest of the pieces fall into place (hopefully not literally) to complete the transformation. Click #oneroomchallenge or #orcat to check out hundreds of other amazing transformations. As always, thanks to @oneroomchallenge and @apartmenttherapy for hosting this fun event and giving me the motivation to make my ideas into reality!
Turns out, the souvenir shirt I picked up in the D Turns out, the souvenir shirt I picked up in the Detroit airport when I was 18 is the perfect painting shirt for a 4-year-old. 🤪 Also- it’s REALLY challenging to control where the paint goes when a wild animal (or that same 4-year-old!) is hanging off the end of the paint roller! 🐅 🦓 🦒 And while I was apprehensive about having a young and enthusiastic helper, no voices were raised or harsh words were spoken and only a little paint went where it wasn’t supposed to go, so it was a success! But even after 2 full coats, I can still see a good bit of the beige through the pink, so it’s on to coat 3 - solo this time - so not as much fun but a little bit quicker!
Is it really week 7 of the One Room Challenge?! So Is it really week 7 of the One Room Challenge?! So much progress made and so much left to make. Battens & trim 90% installed (just leaving the parts that can’t be installed around the vanity until after the counters are replaced), caulk 88% complete, paint prep 75% complete, and cutting in 10% complete. New hardware installed (will have to be removed to paint), vanity lights painted, and giant builder’s mirror removed. All percentages are completely made up but probably roughly correct. 😃 Planning to roll on the first coat of Cupcake Pink tomorrow and complete as much additional painting as I can this week. I’m super excited to see the girls’ reaction to the pink; they’re vaguely aware that I’m going to paint it but I think they need to see it to believe it! I found out it’s likely the counters won’t be installed until late December 😩 so my final reveal at the end of the ORC next week will just be “as done as possible.” Click #oneroomchallenge to check the progress on hundreds of other projects from across the globe!
Week 6 of the #oneroomchallenge finally saw some c Week 6 of the #oneroomchallenge finally saw some changes happen in the bathroom!! 😃 It was so exciting to get to work in the room itself after so many weeks of planning, patching, and sanding. I was having so much fun I never shared an update! The Mister also completed his obligatory ORC task - this time around it was installing our new light fixture - and it looks amazing. It’s so much brighter than the builder’s cheap light, the cool reflections make it feel magical, and it’s damp rated, so it’s safe for the space. I’ve also installed most of the trim and board & batten, recaulked the shower, and checked off various other unremarkable tasks that move the room toward being finished. No news on the counter install date though, so no idea when I’ll be able to pull out the paintbrushes. In the meantime, I’ll continue the tasks I can so I’ll be ready to open the paint the minute the installers leave! @oneroomchallenge @apartmenttherapy #progressnotperfection
This is the part where I’m covered by a thin lay This is the part where I’m covered by a thin layer of sawdust, like the constant cloud of dust swirling around Charlie Brown’s friend Pigpen. It’s on my phone, my hands, my clothes, my coffee, my car, and in my hair. It’s the slowest and most frustrating part, when I’m thinking I should’ve just paid quadruple what I did for lumber and gone with appearance boards instead of cut plywood to eliminate hours of sanding, patching, and more sanding. It’s when I can see the finished result in my head (no one else can) but in reality the rooms looks the same or worse than it did when I started. It’s the middle, and it drags on. But the final result can’t happen without it. #oneroomchallenge #orcat @oneroomchallenge @apartmenttherapy #sandpaper #diyboardandbatten #diyhomedecor
S l o w start to this #oneroomchallenge project, a S l o w start to this #oneroomchallenge project, and I’m starting to sound like a broken record! But it’s moving in the right direction: new faucets and hand towel rings arrived this week (yay! the towel rings were on back order and not due til early November!), I nailed down the counter templating for (unfortunately) late next week (🤞 the install will be a quick turnaround after that), switched back to looking for a new light fixture to ensure it’s safe for use in a bathroom (the DIY I was planning most likely would not have been safe to use in a damp environment so we’ll sacrifice a small savings for safety!), bought the lumber, and got it cut. I’m finally getting my hands dirty on this project, and it feels good to see it start coming together.
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