What a week! Week Seven of the One Room Challenge is in the books, and we couldn’t be more proud of the work that we’ve accomplished in this space. Most importantly, the base of the porch is officially done, and the stairs are built. We got to officially break it in this past weekend with…

Week six of the One Room Challenge feels like the week we gained the absolute most on the visual progress front. Last week’s uncooperative weather delayed our progress pretty significantly. Even though this week has been brutally hot, the rain has held off until early evening, giving us quite a bit of uninterrupted time to…

This week featured a conglomeration of tasks as we continue working on our One Room Challenge porch build. Weather and a few technical problems really hampered our progress this week. It has been so incredibly dry in our part of Florida, so I can’t even be mad about the rain that kept us from working…

Week Three was a very slow one for our One Room Challenge porch project. With a spring garden that desperately needed planting before the intense late-spring Florida heat sets in, we prioritized that project. But that’s not to say nothing happened! What exactly did we accomplish this week? For starters, my husband removed most of…

The Completed You know how it’s always the most “boring” stuff that is typically the most important from a foundational standpoint? Well, this week in porch world, it was all about the foundation. It’s not super interesting. But it’s probably the most important. After excavating some long-standing camellias in our backyard a few weeks ago…

It’s true that I create much better under pressure, as much as I don’t actually love to be under pressure. So I decided to add a little pressure to a big project that we have neglected to put at the forefront: our back porch. I joined the One Room Challenge community for its 2023 spring…