October 8, 2014 Connecticut Home

One Room Challenge: Week 2

It’s week two of the One Room Challenge! If I had a subtitle for this post, it would be Demolition, Decisions and Disappointments. If you’re tuning in for the first time, here’s last week’s post on my chosen room, our soon-to-be new kitchen.

This week we made tremendous progress in the kitchen. The back splashes are all gone, the counter tops too. Then some quick decisions were made. Lauren found these great looking pulls and handles (image above) and now I just need to decide if I’m really going to go for the brass, so to speak.

I chose paint colors for the cabinets (between Benjamin Moore White and Benjamin Moore Dove White) and decided to go with gold old white.

And then for the walls, we went with my favorite, Farrow and Ball Elephant’s Breath, diluted with white by 50%.

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October 1, 2014 Connecticut Home

One Room Challenge: Week One

Today is the first day of the One Room Challenge. This is my first time participating and I can appreciate that the word “challenge” is right there in the title (why didn’t I pay closer attention to that word when I agreed to sign on this summer?)

The One Room Challenge was started by Linda from Calling it Home. It’s made up of twenty designers and/or design bloggers “challenged” to redo a room in just six weeks.
During these six weeks we’ll update on our progress once a week on
Wednesdays.

Renovating can be stressful. Also stressful? Moving. If you’re new here, we’re moving from Westchester, New York to near by Connecticut (hopefully) at the end of this month. By “we”, I mean, myself and Mr. Zhush and our three kids. When we move depends on the timing of our new home’s renovation. So, why not document this whole tense situation here? Seemed like a fun idea back in July, now I’m really just hoping this whole thing comes together before Thanksgiving!

OK, enough whining. The room I’m featuring is the new kitchen in the new house. The photo above is our current kitchen. I really love this kitchen, it’s going to be the inspiration for our new one. Here’s the new one…

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