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One Room Challenge {Week Three}: Fireplaces, Painting, and Repainting

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

Has it been a week already?! This one room challenge seems to be going faster than the rest of them! Last week I shared our design plans for another One Room Challenge. I don’t know where the time is going, but it’s somehow week 3 already, and we still have a LOT of work to do! Here’s what we have tackled so far on this living room one room challenge.

Great renovation plans to bring this home from outdated to modern and contemporary. Love the design plans and the potential in this beautiful barn home.

*This post was sponsored by Para Paints. For more information, see my disclosure page.*

If you want to catch up and see our progress, follow the weeks below:

Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4
Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7 (reveal)

Just as a reminder, here is the space that we started with (above). Our first, and most controversial decision, was to paint all of the walls and the ceiling white!

Love this rich and moody home colour palette! So many beautiful inspirational photos to show how to incorporate these paint colours (or colors) into your whole home. A beautiful home colour scheme and great tips for making your own.

I wanted everything to be a beautiful crisp white, so I used my favourite white right now, which is White Design (previously Jojo Whitewash) from Para Paints. It’s from my whole home paint colour palette and I LOVE the colour.

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

How beautiful is this white?! We actually decided to paint the entire house white. Every wall and the large pine vaulted ceiling. There was NO way that I was gonna get up on that scaffolding, so we hired this one out (shocking for us! I know!). We really never hire anyone, mostly because we are too cheap. But this was a must and our painters did an amazing job! The whole home is so bright now. Paint really can make the biggest difference!

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

And then I made a mistake…. See the top right corner of the above photo… see the different paint colour? I thought I wanted that wall to be a slightly different colour, just slightly beige to add some depth to the wall…

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

So I asked the painters to paint it in the Artiface colour from Para Paints. Well… here’s proof: bloggers make mistakes. LOL. When the painters were done and they removed all of the tape and equipment I went to the house to see it all. I loved the white so much, but was shocked to see the feature wall had a greenish tinge. I had painted samples on the walls, and put the “beige” and white beside each other … I thought it would be great!

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

The paint is a beautiful colour, I must say. I will probably use it in my daughter’s bedroom now that I’ve seen how it goes on!

I tried to convince myself that I liked it on this living room wall for about an hour, until I just couldn’t keep up with my act. The conversation with my husband went something like this…

Me: “Ummm….. Nope. I don’t like it”
Hubby: “Whhhhaaaat???”
Me: “I don’t like it. I need it repainted”
Hubby: “What? No! We already paid them! They’re gone! No!”
Me: “Yep. I can’t live like this. I need it painted”
Hubby: “Nope. No way”

Then this went back and forth for an afternoon. Eventually I won, lol. So the scaffolding is still up and our painters are coming back – hopefully this week – and the walls will all be white :) Sorry hubby! Please still love me! 

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

Aside from that one blemish… did you notice the built-up fireplace?! It’s all framed in! We are using the existing fireplace, but we made a custom box for our sound bar and TV. They are a perfect fit.

Then the hubby was busy with a few other projects:

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

My man was busy changing out all of the traditional moldings for beautiful square modern ones.

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

They look SO good! Now we just have to do the rest of the house…. lol.

 

He also ran electrical to add two new sconces on either side of my fireplace. And I’ve picked out the perfect sconces that I’m excited to show you soon ;)

Follow along as we renovate the first room in our new barn home for the one room challenge. These living room designs, will change this traditional home to modern and new!

So that’s how far we got! Do you think we can get it all done in three weeks?!

Since I’m an obsessive list-maker, here’s how I’m doing on my living room to-do list:

  1. Figure out a colour scheme for the room
  2. Paint walls
  3. Paint Ceiling
  4. Buy a couch
  5. Buy new accent furniture
  6. DIY some throw pillows
  7. Build side tables
  8. Build fireplace frame
  9. Tile fireplace
  10. Build bench beside fireplace
  11. Make a bench seat
  12. DIY some artwork
  13. Wire and install new sconces
  14. Replace all switches and outlets
  15. Pick out new decor pieces

Please share your thoughts! I’d love to hear what you think of our progress!

Steve

Friday 10th of November 2017

Great project! I cannot wait to see it's completion. I also agree with the others that the repainting looks much better. Congrats on a job well done!

Macs

Wednesday 8th of November 2017

Loved the repainting, it's beautiful. Can't wait to see your finished home improvement project. I'm sure it will look gorgeous.

piknu

Friday 27th of October 2017

I'm so excited to see the result! It's gonna be great!! Thank you for updating! The white paint is always the best!

Ashley - The Gold HIve

Wednesday 25th of October 2017

That room is so grand! I can't wait to see the final reveal!

Tash @ The Dreamhouse Project

Wednesday 25th of October 2017

Love the white! It's so bright and fresh! But then that's no surprise - I've yet to come across a PARA colour I didn't love. That fireplace wall is going to be a showstopper as well. Can't wait to see it all come together