ORC: Week Four - Coming Together!

All of the pieces are slowly coming together, full circle

It's great to see everything in my Den plan slowly coming together!

WALL CONSOLE
Last Thursday morning, I was happy to receive the Spencer console that I ordered from WAYFAIR .  

 

It came within less than a week after ordering!  I was VERY impressed!

  

And the quality was top knotch.

The glass has a beveled edge!

SOFA
The next morning, I was lucky to receive my new Lee Industries sofa!  

After years of spreading out on a short loveseat, this new, longer sofa will be the hit in my "girlie" mancave I'm creating!

Notice the blue/white banding trim around the bottom of the skirt.  I am pretty passionate about details like that.  The small details are what really transforms a room and makes it truly unique!
I selected this style sofa for several reasons - it had a masculine, tailored look to it, which I felt the room needed.  I also liked the simplicity of the "unfussy" bench-seat cushion and the angular arms.

OPEN ARMCHAIR
And, I was thrilled to pick-up my newly upholstered chair this week!

What a transformation!

Note: the lime green double welt detail

So, all-in-all, things are coming together in my One Room Challenge Den design.  

PAIR OF BENCHES
TO BE PLACED UNDERNEATH WOOD CONSOLE
However, I did have to relinquish one piece of my design.  I very much wanted to order a pair of Hickory Chair faux bamboo benches and upholster them in a blue velvet squares fabric.

 
 I have the fabric, but due to time constraints, I decided to not order the benches.  I was hoping that I'd be able to find something else.  However, I've been thinking about using these benches somewhere in my house (for years!).  I will probably order them and install later on.

DRAPERY HARDWARE
This was a fun and easy selection/decision for me.  Thanks to three FANTABULOUS blog posts that I read and pinned - from Kristen Jackson at The Hunted Interior blog, Grace from A Storied Style blog and Kris from Driven by Decor blog.  Thanks to their help,I was able to affordably order lucite acrylic rods and rings and brass bracket holders for my Den project!  I'm just waiting for all of the pieces to arrive.

via Driven by Decor blog

via Driven by Decor blog

ACCESSORIES
Lastly, I've been mulling over what type of accessories to use in the room.  I find accessories to be the most difficult part of an install.  Mostly because accessories are so personal.  But, because this is MY install and MY room, I think it's even harder!  After trolling around the internet, I think my best accessorizing tool will be to find large blue/white porcelain ginger jars.  I'm cutting it down to the wire, but I'm going to head over to my local resources and see what I can find.  Here's what I'm thinking about - I think the blue will help punch up the room a bit and bring the color around.

 

My TO DO list: What's left?

1.  Blackamoor Lamps - finish painting them

2.  End Table lamps - make a decision - purchase shades

3.  Artwork over Sofa 

4.  Install window sheers - already purchased and received

5.  Finish purchasing and install drapery hardware

6.  Select & Purchase blue/white porcelain accessories for room

7.  Receive & Install chairs

8.  Pick-up and install pillows and drapery treatments

9.  Photograph

10. Final REVEAL!

To see what I did last week, please click HERE.  To see how the other One Room Challenge Guest Participants are up to, click HERE and to see what the Featured Designers are doing, click HERE.

That's it for this week!  Tootle-loo!

This post is linked up with Poofing the Pillows, Decor to Adore, At Home with Jemma, and the White Spray Paint Blog.

ORC: Week Three - FRAZZLED!?&%$@*!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I pretty much had a meltdown yesterday regarding my ORC plan.  I came to the realization that we're at the half-way point already and I'll have to ditch at least one (hopefully not more) of my planned items - due to the time contraint!  Good Heavens!!  

WHERE is everything??

Well, I shouldn't complain - I received my newly lacquered coffee table.  It looks shiny and blue with it's new coat of Denim by Sherwin Williams!

And, I was lucky.  Instead of having to order my area rug - I found this one already made up and ready to purchase at Myers Carpet.

So, IN THE CAR it went! - along with a rug pad!

SEE YA SOFA!!   "Hasta La Vista, baby!" (Hello Goodwill)

I dropped off my drapery fabric to my workroom last week.  I liked the look and details of this goblet pleat panel that I found on Pinterest and used this as my inspiration photo.

This is my drapery fabric and I asked my drapery workroom to replicate the knotted detail.

I also sent out my mother's old white Living Room chair to get a much needed Botox injection!  Because I was in a rush to get things done, I completely forgot to take a Before photo of the chair in the room.  The chair has a great shape and is very comfortable.  It just needed a fresh and youthful makeover! Here's the BEFORE of the chair.  You'll have to wait until next week for the AFTER.

        

I'm upholstering it in this vibrant Raoul Textiles fabric and adding a bright pop of Lime Green as a contrast welt.  

And finally, my LAMPS.

After mulling over lamp options, I've decided to use some existing Blackamoor lamps that I own.

To get an idea of space, I moved in a console from another room and added a lamp for size.

But NOT THOSE Blackamoor lamps.  The color is all wrong!  I selected THESE Blackamoor lamps!

                   

I'm a hopeless collector of Blackamoor lamps (long story).  Maybe I'll write a quickie blog post about it this week.  Anyhoo!  Although these pups may look decent enough in these photos - the paint was chipped everywhere and the "white" was extremely dingy.  So, I grabbed my paint brushes this week and started their makeover!  They're still a "work-in-progess" - but here's what they look like so far (don't judge)...

And, what's going to make them UBER-FABULOUS is their topper!  

Now THIS custom shade will certainly bring a bit of the WOW factor to my room!  

You can find this shade and other equally stunning and fun shades at Kristi Uvence's 

ETSY Store - SassyShades.

That's it for this week!  If you'd like to see more rooms, please click HERE to see the ORC Featured Designers.  

Here's what I did Week 1 and Week 2!

Tootle-loo!

One Room Challenge: Week Two

Okay!  Week One went off without a hitch.  I seem to have made some great strides in my DEN make-over.  Made lots of decisions last week and started ordering items.  Here is my FLOORPLAN:

ORC - DEN - new Floor Plan with new furniture

As a decorator, I always like to start the design process with a FLOOR PLAN.  It is like a road map for the room.  It tells me where the furniture should be placed and what size furniture will be appropriate for the space.  Also, it helps me identify the traffic pattern for the space.

BEFORE - dirty old chair in front of chest with boat, no mirror

After I have the floor plan tackled.  My next step is to try and find inspiration fabrics and pieces that will help me narrow down my choices.  I usually like to start with fabrics - as fabrics and trims are what I'm passionate about.

The fabric I started with is Pondicherry by Scalamandre.  

I have loved this fabric since it first came out.  Attracted to it's cornflower blues and limeade greens, I bought a huge memo sample of it years ago and vowed that I would use it SOMEWHERE in my next house.  So, after I moved into this house, I started accumulating yardage of it.  I knew that (one day) this would be my drapery fabric.

Next up was trying to figure out how I wanted the overall look of the room to feel.  I'm a color fanatic and love seeing rooms with happy but tasteful bursts of color.  I, briefly, thought that my room should be all beige with the drapery treatment as the "pop".

           

 Beige = Sophisticated, texture                                           Color = Fun, Flirty, Happy

However, I realized that if I had a beige room that wouldn't be true to who I am as a person. Although I love the look of a sophisticated and serene beige room - that's not who I truly am. So, I decided to put in more colorful upholstery pieces. Because in the end, colorful rooms make me more relaxed and happy. I wanted this Den project to reflect that.

So....LONG story short.  For my Den:  I ordered my sofa in a Pale Blue - Cowtan & Tout solid fabric. It has a great texture to it.  I also trimmed the bottom edge of the skirt with a Stout Brothers wide trim band.

   I ordered two Thibaut "Cheverly" chairs.  This was a big splurge for me.  I wanted a pair of matching chairs in this room.  I also wanted the chairs to be comfortable, masculine (but feminine) and comfy.  The Cheverly chairs have faux bamboo front legs.  And, I emphasized the nailhead trim by adding a banded tape around the bottom edge.  I upholstered them in a green/white Leopard fabric that I fell in love with (bring in the feminine!) from Lewis & Sheron.

 


I bought a coffee table online from the girls at Palm Beach Regency.  I hated to paint it - as it was painted white with pink details.  But, pink/white wasn't quite my vision.  Hence, I had them lacquer it "Denim" blue from Sherwin Williams.

Sherwin Williams, DENIM

I was definitely struggling with end tables.  I envisioned a pair of painted creamy, transitional end tables.  I found them at Tritter Feefer - the Wynn Chest.  But, after adding up my costs for the room, I had to abandon this dream and settle for something more economical - like this end table from eBay.

As luck would have it - I got an email for a house sale about an hour away and came home with these two LOVELY BEAUTIES!!  SCORE!!!

   While buying these end tables, I thought that I might paint them a cream color.  But, I've since changed my mind.   I like the mahogany - it's too pretty to paint over!

HERE ARE MY BEFORE SHOTS:

                                           
                                           

Please don't forget to look at what the Featured Designers are doing HERE.  And, click HERE to see what the other GUEST BLOGGERS (like MOI) are doing.  That's it for this week - stay tuned and don't forget to comment!!