One Room Challenge: Spring 2022 Week 7
Hello and welcome to the blog! We are in the 7th week of the Spring 2022 One Room Challenge, just one week away from the end! This week I worked on a whole bunch of random things trying to make progress where I could. Let’s run through what I’ve been working on and what I still need to do before the big reveal.
Atrium
I started off the week making more flagstone pavers. I needed 2 more sets to fill out the space in the atrium. Once they were all made, I laid them out the way I wanted them and started to level them. If you missed how I’m making my pavers, read about it here.
Last weekend we bought a truck-bed full of composted soil from a local company to fill our garden beds. I’ve never done this before, but it was so much cheaper than buying it at big box stores! We only paid $20 for about 1 cubic yard of soil (enough to fill up a standard truck-bed). That’s a lot of dirt! I would have paid $200+ for the soil and compost at any big box store in my area. It was a workout unloading the soil from the truck into the wheelbarrow, then wheeling it to our atrium and unloading it. My Fiancé was a huge help with this part of the project. We worked as a team to make it easier for both of us; he loaded the wheelbarrow and brought it to the atrium, then I filled the garden beds. I definitely wouldn’t want to do this by myself; that wheelbarrow got heavy!
Still to do in the atrium:
Finish leveling the flagstone pavers
Add ground cover plants between the flagstone pavers
Add perlite and mulch to garden beds
Plant vegetables in garden beds (there’s not much you can grow in Florida summers, so it may be a little bare for now)
Clean and decorate
Seal concrete floors
Lounge/pass-through area
Grinding the concrete floor
The concrete floor in the lounge/pass-through area had old mortar and glue on its surface, making the floor look bad. So I started grinding it down with an angle grinder, and I got it down to bare concrete. It looks so good! But it is taking forever, and it is SO dusty, even with dust collection set up. I spent about 9 hours this week grinding the floor, and I’m only about halfway done.
Still to do in the lounge/pass-through area:
Finish grinding the floors
Clean everything
Touch up paint
Upcycle furniture
Decorate
Seal concrete floors
Upgrade pass-through countertop (if I have time)
Workout area
Still to do in the workout area:
Move everything that is currently stored on the deck
Clean
Set up workout equipment
DIY storage
DIY curtains
Decorate
Whew, it has been a long 7 weeks, and there is still so much to do. Admittedly, most of these projects have taken me way longer than I thought. But I am getting them done! We’ll see what I end up finishing in time for next week. Thanks for following along! Be sure to check out the other participants of the One Room Challenge over on the ORC blog.
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