We are rounding the corner and we will soon be at Week 6, The Final Reveal of the One Room Challenge.  For those of you just joining me, I have chosen to redo my foyer.

Once the Final Reveal takes place, I will want to spend that weekend curled up on the couch, visiting all of the participating blogs.  I can’t wait to see their newly remodeled rooms.  I love before and after pictures and seeing how creative minds work.

Misc. Odds and Ends for Completing The One Room Challenge, Week #5

Here’s where my one room challenge stands as I enter the final week:

My chandelier is in.   I was a bit nervous to open the box as I had not seen the fixture in person, only on-line.  My concern was the color of gold – would it look like what I saw on my computer screen?    Well, I wasn’t disappointed!  Now I can’t wait to have it installed!

I’m down to several other last-minute things, one of which I cannot believe I lived with for 16 years!  We have a doorbell that is hung on the foyer wall towards the ceiling.   We inherited it from the previous owners.  It’s ugly and outdated.

Why haven’t I done something in all these years?  Well, I first thought it was attached to the wall with wires and I didn’t think it would be easy to remove.  We had so many other projects around the house that I had to tend to first.

Then, life got in the way and I simply forgot about it.  It was high up on the wall and I just didn’t see it anymore!  It’s amazing how you can get used to something and it becomes invisible.  Have you had that happen to anything in your home?

Fast forward to this past month and I almost fell over when I watched my painter pop the cover off.    That brown ugly box just sat on top of the hard-wired door bell.    What?  I could have just spray painted the cover when I moved in?   OMG!

So on my list this week is to finally spray paint this doorbell cover a cream color to blend in with the wall.

Shutter Doors

As I wrote in an earlier post, I had installed shutter doors between my foyer and kitchen when I first moved into our house.  What was the architect thinking when he designed the house with a kitchen sink in direct sight of the front door!

I have decided to dress up the shutter doors with brass knobs.  I was very limited on the style of knobs because they will be installed back to back on the frame of the shutters which doesn’t give me much room.  I ended up with this 3″ tall brass pull.  The brass goes along with my gold theme in the foyer.

I would have preferred a more simple brass bar but I couldn’t find ones with a single post.  Since the knobs will be back to back on the door, I wanted one single open end screw to be able to attach the knobs on both sides of the doors.  Sometimes you just have to settle and this will do.

Check List – Completed Items

Leopard Carpet Runner Installed (Love!)

Brass Stair Rods Polished and Installed – (Classic Touch!)

Stair Treads and Rail Painted Black (Dramatic!)

Coat Closet Doors Painted Black (Striking)

Brass Ring Pulls added to Coat Closet Doors (Perfect Choice!)

Bar Cart Ordered from One Kings Lane (PLEASE arrive in time!)

 

Check List – Final Items to Complete this Week

Install chandelier

Install brass knobs on shutter doors

Buy new house plant

Cross my fingers and hope area rug arrives in time

Take pictures for next week’s final reveal

If you would like to continue to follow the other participants in the One Room Challenge Link up, click here and for the 20 other participants, click here.    Once again, thank you to Linda at Calling It Home for this great event.