One Room Challenge - Week 1 The Primary Bedroom

Hey there!! Welcome to my first ever blog post. I’m Alexis!

My goal for this blog and my home, is to cultivate a space where people feel welcome and I’m able to exercise/ share the creative gifting God has blessed me with. If you know me- you already know I love design, I have a strong preference for neutrals, and I like using my own two hands to transform spaces.

To provide some background for this challenge, my husband and I downsized from a new construction home into an 1150 sqft cottage built in the 1930s in the midst of a global pandemic. Oh and was it a fixer upper!! More on that later. I have chosen to tackle our primary bedroom for the One Room Challenge this fall because it is the one room that we have absolutely not touched. When we bought our house, it was the only room that had drywall- so it’s where most of our furniture was stored until we got the remainder of the house drywalled, popcorn ceiling scrapped, floor laid, and evvvverything painted.

Here is the before, when we closed on our house in 2020 and the current sad state today.

My goal for our primary bedroom is to use a lot of what is existing- mainly the bed and the dresser. Yes, I knooooow a King bed is too tight for this room, but we have a toddler who likes to climb in and then take over our bed… so that is staying. The bedding and my Moroccan tassel blanket is also staying. Ha!

At this point you are probably like okay… soooo how is this going to be a transformation?? I feel you.

Don’t worry- there is a lot changing!! We fully intended since moving in to pull up this carpet- so that’s a for sure. Also similar and yet very different paint on the walls, window treatments, lighting, etc. I also have about 5 or 6 DIYs I’ve dreamed up for this space, but you know I can’t give too much away in week 1!

For now, I will leave you with my inspiration pictures…

And my real life mood board… which I truly hope doesn’t give too much away.

Stay tuned for more updates and be sure to check out the One Room Challenge Blog, this season’s Featured Designers, and of course Guest Participants like me! As always, special thanks to the One Room Challenge media Sponsor, Better Homes and Garden and to Linda owner and creator of the One Room Challenge.