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

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

November 21, 2019November 21, 20192 Comments

Welcome to our DIY old world mud room! For less than $250 (yes, you read that right!), we transformed the space from beige and boring to blue and beautiful over the course of 7 weeks! Read on to find out how we did it.

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The Almost Reveal | One Room Challenge | Week 6

November 10, 2019November 21, 2019Leave a comment

The One Room Challenge has officially come to an end…but I’m one of the select few who have added an unofficial 7th week.

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DIY vertical planks

DIY Vertical Paneling + Counter: Fall 2019 One Room Challenge | Week 5

October 31, 2019November 1, 2019Leave a comment

It’s Week 5 of the One Room Challenge already?!  This week, we cut ALL THE WOOD.  I also began installing and painting our partial vertical paneling around the room.

Week 5 of the One Room Challenge is already over?!  That means just one more week until the reveal…Oh, boy! Continue reading →

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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 solutions to your home decor dilemmas! Pull up a seat and stay awhile!

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Columbia, SC | S l o w l y transforming our beige 🏡 into a home. Mama to a 1-year old 👶 girl. Traveling the 🌎 with @48nointerstate.

Instagram post 2185183587972633160_1573975845 Do you have a light fixture you strongly dislike? 🙋‍♀️ We have a few, but there’s one less on the ‘naughty list’ since I made an inexpensive and easy change to our kitchen chandelier. (I actually did it last spring but never got around to sharing it. Did the springy colors in the photo catch your attention in the clashing sea of 🌲 and 🍁 that is Instagram right now?)
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It cost about $30 to buy these seeded glass covers at Home Depot (it would have been less at Lowe’s because for some reason they’re about $2 cheaper there, but my store didn’t have any and I wasn’t about to drive 45 minutes round trip to the next closest store with a 5-month old!) and took about 10 minutes to change them out.
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At first I figured this would be a temporary fix until I found a new fixture we liked, but the new covers changed the look of the chandelier so much that I actually really love it now. And of course I love the $30 price tag for what feels like a whole new fixture.
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This is even something you could do in a rental- just keep the original covers in a safe place and put them back before you move (and probably check with your landlord first to be on the safe side)!
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Sharing ideas for easy and inexpensive fixes you can do to make a space more your own is something I enjoy doing but haven’t in a while. Hope this one helps someone out there! 🤗
Instagram post 2183724082470346482_1573975845 I recently spruced up the pillow situation in our den. Several of the pillows had gotten really squished and a looked a little dirty thanks to our four-legged family members. I started by covering our old hammock pillow (we no longer have a hammock so it was just taking up space!) with this colorful floral fabric from @hobbylobby and added some pink covers from @ikeausa. The light blue pillow was a wedding gift, and amazingly it’s still in good enough condition that it made the cut after 11+ years. The little black dog and little (off-) white dog certainly seem to approve! . 
Since December will be full of travel and family and the busy-ness of Christmas time, we’re taking a break from house projects until 2020 (the Mister is relieved!), but finishing up the den is one of the first on my mental 2020 to-do list. Until then, photos of this space will be zoomed in very close to hide the boxes we haven’t unpacked after 18 months in our house 🤦‍♀️ and the too-small 5x8 rug in a room that has to be at least 15’ x 30’. 🙄 . 
It’s a chilly, rainy day here and we’re running around getting ready for our upcoming cross-country road trip (yes, we are taking the baby! 😮). We’re excited to take our daughter on her first big trip. She’s pretty well-traveled already, having accompanied us to Florida (twice!), Indiana, and NYC (plus a bunch of other places closer to home!) before she was a year old.
Instagram post 2182175274599032653_1573975845 Yesterday was a real treat. I accompanied the Mister to Charlotte for a work party in the evening and took advantage of my baby-free afternoon to run errands. In a glorious 4 hours, I covered 3.5 miles on foot at 7 shops, which included 1.5 hours at Ikea and a 40-minute drive across town (yes, I sprint through stores when unencumbered by my kid!). It gets better: The nice lady at Target marked my jeans down 70% when they didn’t have a tag on them. I found everything in my list and only picked up 3 extra items. At the party, I bowled a 156! (I also bowled something less good but we won’t talk about that one.) I slept. I woke up early.  I sat in the hotel bed and worked on my computer for 2 uninterrupted hours! I almost finished a blog post (I’m getting REALLY good at ‘almost’). I blocked the IP address of a spammer from frequent commenting on my blog. I sat quietly and drank coffee. I closed 32 safari windows on my phone! Now I’m home and heading to pick up our girl - and happy that my 27-hour mom-cation is almost over. The next edition of the reveal post for the DIY Old World Mud Room, as I’m now calling it, will be live in a few hours, but in the meantime here’s a sneak peek for you.
Instagram post 2176511889911970121_1573975845 I’m still trucking along in the mud room and hoping to finish up this #oneroomchallenge by the end of the week! Today I installed the new countertop we made from 2x6 lumber and put down the first coat of polycrylic. I like using polycrylic because it’s easy to clean and doesn’t stink to high heaven so can be used inside without stopping life. #notanad
Instagram post 2174860820026827937_1573975845 DIY looks so much different than it used to. I have a strict ‘boss’ who constantly reminds me I need to be doing other things. She’s demanding and tough, and she won’t take ‘no’ for an answer 😜 So I didnt completely finish my One Room Challenge project this time around. I also enlisted the Mister’s help more than any ORC project before: from building the bench to driving an hour round trip to rent and return a table saw to cutting the wood for planks to helping me build a new counter out of 2x6 lumber to a little extra playtime with the little girl, my ORC husband definitely went above and beyond. A somewhat hastily written update is on the blog, and progress photos are in my stories. More to come during over the next several days during this #oneroomchallengebonusweek.
Instagram post 2172941008409260644_1573975845 Can you spot the differences? There are at least 4 (answers in my stories 🤗) There’s no One Room Challenge reveal on the blog yet, but I’m getting there! I got stuck a couple weeks ago debating several options, including whether to paint the baseboards the same color as the planks or leave them white. I scoured the internet to find images of similar planking to see whether baseboards were painted or left white so I could visualize the options. 
I found my answer in an amazing bathroom by @em_henderson. In her ‘Portland Bathroom’, the navy paint on the vertical planks carries down to the baseboards and looks great! I initially left mine white to see how they looked before diving in, but decided immediately it wasn’t right. I gave them a few coats of blue and LOVE the result. It looks a little old world to me, which is just the look I’m going for in our 4-year-old cookie cutter house. 
You can see a lot of great before + after photos by those who have completed their projects already - just click #oneroomchallenge and enjoy!!
Instagram post 2171357807446423008_1573975845 I’m SO EXCITED to finally get some paint on the walls today. I’m about a week behind where I’d like to be in this #oneroomchallenge project, and I’m so impatient to see if the end result matches the image that’s been floating around in my head for so long. The most annoying/tedious parts are (I think) behind me, and now all the changes should be more visually satisfying. It’s been so long since I took on such an involved project I kind of forgot how frustrating all those tedious little steps can be. A reveal of some kind will be on the blog over the weekend. Until then, I’ll be painting every free moment I get! Oh, and building a counter top. Turns out, this was a rather industrious project to take on. #reallifediy
Instagram post 2167631070044622590_1573975845 Progress! The vertical planks are up! And most of them are even glued on. I held back on the ones that go around outlets because they’ll need some pretty precise cuts with a saw other than my trusty hand saw. This project is really pushing me into using new tools! An update is on the blog today about what’s been done and what’s left to wrap up in Week 6 of the One Room Challenge. So much to do, so little time in which to do it!!
Instagram post 2164698615247559118_1573975845 This weekend took me WAY out of my comfort zone. .

My original plan was to start on the hand painted plaid wall that will go above our vertical paneling, but instead we rented a table saw from @homedepot and cut up two 4’x8’ plywood panels into individual pieces for the vertical planks that will go below the plaid wall. .

While operating a table saw is terrifying due to its noise and the fact that a sharp blade capable of chopping up any number of body parts is spinning around at 1000 rpm (this is not a scientific fact) inches from your fingers, it was really the only way to do the job we needed to do. Once we got into a rhythm, things moved pretty quickly, and we managed to return it with 30 minutes to spare! .

The saying goes, “measure twice, cut once” but in most cases we measured thrice, cut once - and in a few we measured thrice, cut twice. In the end, we have all our pieces and enough left over to add to our pile for future projects. Oh, and we also still have 20 fingers between us. 🤗 .

I always say that you don’t need to own or to know how to use power tools to create a space you love. I thought about that a lot this weekend and as I selected this photo to share.  At $50 for 24 hours, this rental wasn’t inexpensive, but it turned out to be the most cost-effective way to get the planks we need for the project. The plywood panels set us back about $40 total. So for under $100, we have a planked wall (or will, as soon as I finish it!). Neither one of us knew how to use this saw going into it, but when you put us together, we have at least one brain 🧠 and the University of YouTube is open 24 hours. So while you don’t have to own or know how to operate huge, expensive, scary equipment, it helps to be willing to try it. Just be smart and ask for help while you learn. And watch your fingers. (This is not sponsored. We paid for our rental.)
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