Welcome to Week 5 of the Spring 2024 One Room Challenge! If you’ve never heard of this, it’s a bi-annual challenge that takes place every spring + fall. Participants pick a room to transform + share their progress throughout the course of 8 weeks followed by a reveal on week 8!
One Room Challenge: Home Office/Hobby Room (Week 5)
Goals
What I thought I’d be doing:
- Week 1: Intro
- Week 2: Decluttering the world (+ before photos)
- Week 3:
Organize bookshelves/tea shelf + fix up reading area - Week 4:
Organize craft space + cable management - Week 5: Organize bookshelves/tea shelf, fix up reading area + organize craft space/cable management
- Week 6: Lighting + wall decor
- Week 7: Painting + tea trolley revamp
- Week 8: The Reveal!
I ended up missing weeks 3 and 4 due to…work (still hanging by a few threads lately but really hoping things will improve soon). A few of my patients recently told me that they specifically chose me because they felt the older doctors were more likely to be burnt out. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that age sadly has nothing to do with it and I too am very burnt out. :[
But, in the spirit of celebrating what progress I have managed to make, here are some of the mini-upgrades as of late!
- All my books (including all the library-sale finds + Little Free Library finds) = shelved!
- Yay for utilization of my pegboard for organization! I also put up 3 prints from previous travels! On the left is Toketee Falls in Oregon, middle is from part of the Point Lobos Loop Trail (this is also the photo that won me a free annual California State Parks pass!), and the right is from my Rae Lakes backpacking trip! :]
I need to swipe some more binder clips from work to put up the rest of the paint tubes…
- Tea shelf is less of a mess than it was — I still need to get drinkin’, but at least there’s some form of rhyme or reason (at least to me) for where everything is now…
- Although I said I wasn’t going to buy anything new, butttt I scored a lot of nice coupons from Michaels that essentially made this cart and its accessories a grand total of…$30. The color is “Dusty Blue,” although it looks more like the Mint in this photo.
- Almost done with one of my koi lanterns! I still need to decorate the other side, add the head, and put in the LED lights but…yay for progress!
- Have you fallen behind on your room challenge/project at all? I like to think I can’t be the only one…
- Do you have any home projects you’re working on?
