One Room Challenge: Spring 2016

The One Room Challenge is back for its 10th season and all the action starts today! The One Room Challenge, or ORC for short, is a design challenge created by Linda of the blog Calling It Home. Every spring and fall, Linda invites 20 design bloggers to participate in redecorating one room of their house, or a client's house, in only 6 weeks. These 20 bloggers will be showing us their progress every Wednesday until the big reveal. 

The event is also open to anyone else who wants to participate as a guest and that's where I come in. Guest participants update their progress on Thursdays and past ORC rounds have included up to 150 guests! This will be my 5th consecutive ORC and I can't wait to get started. I'll wait until tomorrow to announce the room I'll be working on this time and will share my plan (unless you already know because you follow me on Snapchat where I revealed a sneak peek! And if not, look for me here: lesley_metcalfe). In the meantime, check here to see an overview of my previous four ORC room makeovers to date. 

My front porch makeover from Spring 2015 - I can't wait for the 
warmer weather to come so I can set it all up again! 

After you're caught up on my past projects, make sure to visit Calling It Home to see who the 20 featured participants are for Spring 2016. Oh, and big news - the One Room Challenge is partnering with House Beautiful this season! They will be live-blogging, pinning and Instagramming throughout the six weeks. 





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