One Room Challenge Fall 2022 - Week 6

Wow I am not prepared for it to already be week 6 of the One Room Challenge! It’s getting down to the wire and I am low-key freaking out. On top of that, I will be out of town the beginning of next week, which couldn’t be worse timing. But OK, breathe, breathe. Deep breaths. Let’s focus on the achievements of the week instead!

Platform behind TV

The Original Plan

Originally I wanted this platform to be covered in stone to add an earthy texture to this wall. I’ve also been itching for an excuse to tile something! But once I received all the samples I was so excited about, they just weren’t right.

The Pivot

So then I thought: how about roman clay?! So I swatched a few shades of white. But then I realized that this platform is so large that it would have to be made up of multiple pieces of wood or drywall. But since I live in California and we just had a 5.1 earthquake a couple of weeks ago, it occurred to be that the seems between the pieces of wood or drywall might crack!

Another Pivot

I was beginning to feel a bit discouraged until it hit me–canvas! Canvas can be all one seamless big sheet. An no seams means no potential cracking!

The challenge was that the TV mount needs to be able to fit in the middle of the canvas, which means the canvas needs to have a big hole in the middle of it.

It seemed risky, but I thought it’d be worth a shot!

So I built a frame, stretched a canvas, and then promptly cut a hole right in the center of that newly stretched canvas. And it seems to have worked! Voilà, we have a TV platform!

Wall Treatment

I’ve been going back and forth since the start of this challenge on whether to do a slat wall. I love the look of a slat wall and I’ve been wanting to do one for a very long time now. But this room has a LOT of wall in it and I’ve been concerned that slat-walling the entire room might be too much slat wall–actually, is there such a thing?

So I found these fluted wall panels and I think they might be the ones! I love the texture they add and that they’ll hide the very textured orange peel walls in that room.

Next up: paint! Or stain? I swatched some samples but I’m not sure whether I want to stain them or paint them.

Floating TV Console

This was supposed to be the easiest build of this project but it nearly destroyed me instead. And then once I was finally ready to build, I realized by cut list was all wrong because my entire design was based on the nominal widths instead of actual widths! Duh 1×8″ means 0.75×7.25″! So It was back to the drawing board because I’m so silly.

Here’s the “final design”. I just finished cutting the wood pieces yesterday.

A Fireplace Too?

Ok, I know I’ve been complaining about the time crunch, but this week it has gotten SO chilly. Hello, holiday season! So I got the idea that this room would be really nice and cozy if it had an electric fireplace…

I know. I KNOW. I’m so the problem here. But I started designing a place for the fireplace that maybe hopefully pretty please won’t take too long to build.