One Room Challenge: “Men’s Lounge” (Week 3)
Welcome to week three of our One Room Challenge journey! If you are just joining us, welcome to IrisNacole.com! You can catch-up on our progress here, as well as see previous One Room Challenge makeovers from previous seasons. I hope you enjoy what you see and continue to visit to see how this space turns out!
As a reminder, here is our mood board for the space.
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Last week I shared our flooring choice for the space, along with a few of the items we found on a shopping trip. Well guess what friends? I completely spaced and shared the wrong shelves with y’all. Funnily enough, my husband nor I noticed until just a few days ago. The ones we actually found are from Pottery Barn, and they are the Holman Shelves, in Rustic Wood. I had originally picked up the shelves I shared last week, only to find that they didn’t have the correct size, so we went with these instead. Honest mistake, but I wanted to correct it for y’all.
So let’s get y’all up to date on our progress from this past week! I tried my hand at using a paint sprayer to paint the room in Benjamin Moore’s Simply White. Let’s just say I could use a bit more practice before giving an honest opinion on how that went. The walls are painted though, including the ceiling, so that’s a win, right?
So pretty!
You can see that we also added the ceiling light fixture to the space. It’s the Restoration Hardware Antiqued Metal Drum in Vintage Brass. If you have been following me for a while, you’ll recognize this light as the light from our dining room. Since we are updating the areas downstairs and the dining room is getting a new light fixture, we decided to move this one up here so that we wouldn’t waste such a beautiful piece, and I think it’s the perfect fit!
In other news, our flooring came in, but we are waiting for the transition piece to come in on the 25th, before we are able to schedule the install. We also noticed that the smell of cat urine has dissipated after removing the carpet, and painting the room. I think I can still smell it, but John says he thinks it’s gone completely. We are going to attempt to paint the sub floor with Kilz to see if we can eliminate the smell just in case it’s being masked right now by the newly painted walls. Hopefully that’ll help us avoid the massive bill that was quoted to us in order to replace only three small sections of the sub-flooring. They couldn’t even remove a couple of the spots we were concerned about due to the structure, so we would be paying a lot for something that may/may not even work. We’ll be starting that project in a couple of days. John has volunteered to paint the floor since I painted the room. Plus I don’t think I could stand the smell of oil based Kilz, which apparently is pretty toxic.
I’m excited to have the flooring go in though! Just look how pretty it is with the newly painted walls!
So that’s where we are at in our progress this week. Hopefully I’ll have some exciting news to share with y’all next week, like we have somehow managed to find the missing piece of flooring at a store and have been able to schedule the install. Even better that the Kilz worked and we don’t have to shell out anymore money for this space! Haha! Until then!
-Iris
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Hey Iris,
Just love all those. Would love to try something similar with this at home Beautiful! Great stuff.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
Cheers,
Oliver
Oh Iris I’m loving that light fixture and have to say jealous of the flooring! One day we’ll have more wooden floors in our home than carpet. 🙂 Keep up the good work my friend! XOXO, Sarah
What a beautiful design plan. That’s a space I’d like to be in. The walls look great, and it’s amazing what Kilz can hide. Good luck this week !
Thank you Celine! We just spent a day away from the house because of the Kilz fumes, so I’m thinking it should do the trick! I may never be able to smell again though, so it might not matter. Haha!
Coming along! I love the drum shade and I’ve never attempted a sprayer!. Not sure it would be as easy as it sounds!
It was quite the challenge for me, since I kept fogging up my goggles, and taking them off was out of the question. I think I could have painted it quicker using my old roller. LOL! Still, I think if you are painting something smaller, or outdoors too, it could be a lot easier of a job. I’m going to continue to use it and see if I can master the technique. 🙂
LOVE that light! Yay on the paint. Can’t wait to see the floors. Our installer is coming on Tuesday so we are cutting it close. Good luck!
Thank you Ashley! How exciting! I know I’m excited for our new floors, so to have yours being installed has to be exciting for you too. Can’t wait to see your space complete!! It’s one of my favorites!
Iris, I love all the masculine touches to soft feminine style. I am swooning over that fixture…it is kind of like country chic…it looks a bit rustic but the shape is somewhat soft in style.
Thank you so much Jessica! I knew I couldn’t stray tooooo far from the rest of my house, so I was happy that this style worked out for both my husband and I. 🙂
Hey Iris – the bright white paint color is so refreshing and really lightens the space. Than drum light fixture is gorgeous. Your space is going to be amazing! Fingers-crossed that the kitty smell disappears. Cheers to a great week!
Thank you ladies! I have got to get over to see y’all’s space! I’ve just been so busy that my head is spinning. I’m going over now!
That light is gorgeous! Do you find with the metal shade that it is bright enough? Does the light shine mostly downwards and upwards, or everywhere like a fabric shade?
Thank you Anna! It actually brightens up the room nicely. It casts light upwards and downwards, but mostly down. With daylight bulbs installed, it’s amazing!
Oooh, that drum shade is incredible! I hope that Kilz works on the sub-floor – I’m crossing my fingers for you!