Past ORC Rooms - THEN & NOW

First of all, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for your positive comments and compliments of my East vs. West Fall Home tour! I also appreciate all the positive thoughts and words of comfort for my recent personal issues. Words are powerful and it helps to know that I have a lot blogger friends out there who are supportive, I truly am grateful!

So today,  I want to walk a little bit down memory lane and talk about my past ORC rooms!

Ok, the next ONE ROOM CHALLENGE starts in a few weeks!

So I thought I'd revisit the past 3 ORC rooms I did and what they look like now.

1) TWEEN BOY BEDROOM - Fall 2013

It seems like yesterday when I first joined the ORC with my first born son's bedroom. He was only 13 y/o then and we wanted to fix his room up for our young man. Now he's a junior in HS applying for college and I just get a bit teary-eyed thinking he'll be living his room soon!!!

AFTER ORC

The same room NOW

We had to make the bed into a bunk bed again when we redid our other son's room, so we had to re-arrange everything in the space.

2) SAFARI GLAM NURSERY -  Spring 2015

For the 2nd time I joined, we did Sophia's nursery!  She was almost 1 year old when we did her room because as you may know, we combined her nursery initially with our Master Bedroom!

AFTER ORC

Nursery/Toddler Room NOW

Major change would be the crib into the bed. I also removed the juju hat and replaced it with a mirror, but overall, the room still works well for our young lady!


3) COMFY & STYLISH BOYS BEDROOM - Spring 2016

And for the very latest ORC room I did, it was for my middle child, who also like his brother, has become a Tween overnight! LOL!

AFTER ORC

This room has not changed much since my son still loves anything STAR WARS but he does have more Marvel and DC comic books in his book shelf than before.

I hope you can join me as I tackle the most important room in our house (for me)! Can you guess what it is?

I'll be very busy this coming week preparing for my daughter's 3rd birthday! Can you believe it?! I can't! We're having a "Moana Themed Hawaiian Party" so I'm super busy preparing for that! I hope to share it with you soon!

Have a Great weekend!

VEL


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Master Closet BEFORE & AFTER

I enjoy Before and After series a lot, and so I had to do this with my latest project!

I definitely can't complain about my BAG STORAGE now!

No more unused space all the way to the top

Storage boxes are definitely nicer now as well as the pants organizer

I LOVE this nook NOW!

Yup, an O-C's dream ;-)

Good-bye wire shelving forever and hello nice cabinetry and Valet rod!

Looking at this I still can't believe it sometimes that it's the same space! And if your thinking of re-doing your closet, a big 'YES' it is definitely DOABLE!!!!

How we got here...

The Master Closet Reveal
Guide to Build your own closet using IKEA PAX

Our Master Closet - The  BEFORE

Dreaming of Closets - My Inspirations

Custom Closet Options - What's available out there

The Master Closet PLANS

Master Closet LIGHTING OPTIONS

Unique JEWELRY STORAGE/ORGANIZERS

Have a Great Week!

VEL 

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Taking back our Office and Library - DONE!

I did it and managed to spruce up and clean up our office and library over the weekend!

Thank you for your words of encouragement by the way when I shared with your the disaster HERE.

Yup, touches of Christmas have arrived as well!

Other than the obvious cleaning and some purging I did, I also changed the position of the study table to parallel the length of the room...

see?

I added a lot of Magazine file holders too (see arrow) to sort my husband's papers easily.

As you can see the bottom 2 rows are set aside mostly for easy filing and organization

Did you notice the art on the shelves?

Since it is Christmas, I thought of adding some Holiday cheer on the table

I also added a storage hook for my son's back pack and music book bag to keep things from crowding the floor.

Nice and neat

The wall facing the window, just need to have a lot organizing and cleaning done, and yes, THE WIG IS IN STORAGE, as it should be . ;-)

I added the paper lantern, Christmas lights and garland (same thing you'll be seeing in the Dining room btw) on the window for the holidays.

Pictures of really old men are still hanging on this side

I organized most of the books by color. 

As you can see too I scattered some of my snowflake ornaments all around too!

Closer look at the shelves - my 2 favorite paintings, The pitcher made by my son and
Jennifer Daily's "Arm in Arm"

Another favorite painting by Kerry Steele

Homework just got a lot easier

Now, the question is, 'How long will it stay this way?"! ;-)

On a more positive note please mark you calendar for this....

I can tell you, if you haven't started your decorating yet, you will surely be inspired by all the beautiful Holiday homes you will see here, and don't forget you can Link up too on the 16th!!!!!

So excited to see your home as well!

I can tell you, I'm almost done, and I can't wait to share our Christmas Home tour with you!

I will share another room with you this Wednesday for another sneak peek  of our home tour!

Have  A Wonderful Week!

VEL

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Nursery Bathroom REVEAL

Good Day Friends!

I know it's been a rough weekend for everybody with the recent Paris tragedy that occurred

I am still shocked and scared of what this all means and I pray for all the victims and their family and for all of France as well.

Anyway, today I wanted to share with you our Nursery bathroom reveal!

We finished this months ago, but I have just been lazy to take pictures and write about it until now.

You know how it is, sometimes you need a 'spark' to get you going, and it finally came to me yesterday.

yup, girly as can be!

Remember the BEFORE HERE?

Brown 'goodness' everywhere

The first thing we did was of course paint it all white. 

BEHR Nude , left over from the boys bathroom and nursery.

I aslo added these Flower Vinyl Wall decals from Classy Clutter Designs on ETSY. 

Had some left over from the Nursery Closet Makeover but still had to buy some more.

Just to jog your memory on where I used it at 

On the vanity side, I added these...

Wall art from Hobby Lobby

I also spray painted the towel hardware gold and covered the switch plate covers in pink striped gift wrap!

Gloomy before again

I got the Battery-operated Marquee letter on clearance at TARGET and I added washi pink tape on the tooth brush holder from Container store. The pink cup is a freebie from MACY's!

I removed the big IKEA cabinet here and added this shelf, also from IKEA. I spray-painted the bracket gold and covered the wood shelf with Marble Contact paper (left-over from a Kitchen project).

I really wanted to put this....

CB2

...but when it came, it was far too heavy and big, I would constantly be in fear of it falling over Sophia, especially when she's a bit bigger!

I also got these cute containers from CB2 which I spruced up with
pink washi. The Lotus Q-tip holder is from EBAY.

I really love how this shelf turned out.

I also added this "S "wall hook low enough so when Sophia is a bit older, she can hang her towel or robe easily too.

Gold dots are from Classy Clutter Designs as well.

I made the LOVE wall art using the same gift wrap I used on the switch plate covers and added the L-O-V-E letters I got from H & M a year ago! I added pink washi tape around the frame too!

IKEA Duckie storage for Sophia's Bath toys

I also have the Diaper Pail here, you can see a bit of it here in this picture, in front of Duckie

I also changed the bathroom fixtures

I got the fixtures from CB2 as well.
I also spray-painted the handle of the old vanity gold.

The tub within the tub

We still use the baby tub for 2 reasons: 1) less water needed to fill  up 2) Easier for Sophia to sit and not slip. 

And speaking of safety...

I have this toilet cover guard.
The gold foldable stool is for me when I give Sophia her bath

I still need to find the perfect lighting for here. I'm still searching and will share it when I do.

So far, we love how it turned out and how we can easily change up the decor in this space.

For now it's clean, organized, purposeful and I think, pretty too!

If you want to see the Nursery again, click HERE and the Nursery Closet, HERE. 

Anyhow, I've been busy too decorating for Christmas already!

 I'm proud to say that I will be joining other fabulous bloggers in the 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BLOGGER TOUR,!

Mark Your Calendar!

Thank you for looking at my project !

Hope you have a Great Week!

VEL

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