Game on…my foyer and hallway renovation for the One Room Challenge (with media partner Better Homes & Gardens) is underway and I’m pretty excited.
The Fall One Room Challenge started yesterday. For anyone unfamiliar with the ORC, it’s a bi-annual event where 20 bloggers and designers transform a room in a matter of six weeks and report their progress online every Wednesday.
In addition to the 20 “featured” designers/bloggers, any blogger can participate as a guest, and link up to the ORC every Thursday. And that’s where I come in…
I plan to transform my foyer and hallway. The space is desperately in need of some love. It often ends up as storage for random stuff(as evidenced in the vid below).
The walls are a mess from the previously applied Venetian plaster that was a bandaid for the torn off wallpaper scars, so I plan to do the same shiplap treatment I did in my family room to cover over the terrible plaster finish. 
I’ll apply the shiplap in the foyer and all the way down the hallway. The foyer I plan to paint a color, similar to the dark color in the mood board. The hallway will be the same white(swan wing-Behr) as in the rest of the house.
A list of everything I want to accomplish…
- shiplap all the walls.
- paint all the walls…foyer probably a dramatic color but fairly neutral and hallway white.
- make new roman shades for my front doors.
- make a new base for the dresser
- beef up the round mirror
- new base board and door trim.
- possible photo gallery wall in hallway or gallery ledge in hallway.
- buy…area rug for foyer, new lamps for foyer,
- create some sort of art piece for the first part of the hallway…maybe a something fabric or macrame-ish/yarn.
I’d love to replace the floors but since the foyer runs directly into the rest of my house I’d have to replace the floors in essentially my whole house.
After doing the kids bathroom for the last ORC I feel like I could practically sleep through this one…jk. That bathroom was such hard work and so expensive that it almost ruined me for the ORC.
I’m really excited to see the transformation with this renovation and can’t wait to get started.
If you want to get a really real feel for what I’m up against take a look at this video…
