Week 6 is here. Unbelievable. The last month and a half flew by. I want to start out by saying how incredibly happy I am that I chose to remake our side yard in to a garden. I loved designing it and then watching it come to life. It went from an eyesore to one of my favorite places to relax. In fact, I’m relaxing in the garden, drinking a cup of coffee and writing this post. I love that all of our kids not only have fun picking fruits and veggies from it, but they play with their toys, lounge on the furniture and read books there too. I’d…
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Week 5: One Room Challenge the Kitchen Garden
This week I didn’t spend as much of my time in the garden as I did in the shop. This week I made the BIGGEST DOOR I’ve ever made. We live in Norco, “Horsetown USA.” Everyone has a barn in their backyard. We have a guesthouse, we were told to call it a barn. It made perfect sense to me that a barn door access into the equipment area would be very fitting. Even if the trend goes away an outdoor barn door in a horse town will always look right. I felt the design for the door needed to be grand in order to be a contrast against the…
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Week 4: One Room Challenge the Kitchen Garden
I’ve been getting a lot of questions as to what the One Room Challenge is. I guess I should have done a better job of introducing it in the beginning. The One Room Challenge or ORC as people like to call it, is a 6-week long design challenge where a designer will choose a room and feature it’s transformation over a 6 week period. It’s held biannually in April and October. This April over 300 guest designers are doing the challenge as well as 20 Featured Designers. This is my first time doing the challenge – although I have wanted to for a few years. It’s not so much of…
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Week 3: One Room Challenge the Kitchen Garden
Welcome to week 3! The plants have really started to grow and are filling in the spaces. I got the drip irrigation all plumbed, bay leaf tree in a large pot (that I found for a steal at Sam’s Club), storage benches made and finished, and the start of the equipment wall and privacy screen in place. I’d be lying if I said I’m right where I would like to be, but honestly when I think about it, we accomplished a ton this past week. We were also assaulted by an endless march of hungry caterpillars. But what’s a project without a little adversity? I spent a lot of time…
