Today is the big day you’ve all been waiting for – the One Room Challenge Guest reveals! I am so excited to be sharing my revamped entryway with all of you. And I can’t wait to see all of the other One Room Challenge Reveals over at Calling it Home.
If you’re a lover of shiplap, I think you’ll fall for our foyer renovation. We channeled our inner Chip & Joanna to bring a little bit of farmhouse to our 1980’s colonial.
In case you missed it, here’s what we did:
- Showed you how the room looked before
- DIY’d an inexpensive orb light (you won’t believe what the light was made with!)
- Redid an old dresser with chalk paint and shared how we refinished our stairway
- Re-imagined a cork board into a chalkboard
- Created custom artwork using engineer prints
So without further ado, here is our redesigned foyer!
Foyer Renovation – One Room Challenge Reveal
Just as a quick reminder, here is the before:
Here’s the After:
I wanted a basket to help store all of the “stuff” that always ends up on top of furniture in the foyer. I know we can’t be the only ones that end up with a pile of “stuff” in their foyer.
The odd spindles you see at the top of the stars are our baby gate.
Notice my small helper in the pink sweater?
Where to find it?
- House Lantern – Hearth and Hand with Magnolia, Target
- Wooden tray – Home Goods
- Orb – Home Goods
- Basket – Storage Trunk, Michaels
- Flameless Candles, Amazon (these are so amazing. They’re “faux” candles but you’d never know it!)
- Stair Runner, Overstock
- Home Sweet Home Art, Mom Envy (free printables)
- This is Us Chalkboard Cork Board, Mom Envy DIY
- Dresser, Mom Envy Makeover
- Light, Mom Envy Makeover
Need More Inspiration?
For more reveals, don’t forget to head over Calling it Home’s One Room Challenge page. You can find the contributors reveals as well as the guest participants. You’ll be so inspired by their creativity and design!
barb
Thursday 8th of June 2023
Question and I know this was awhile ago- how did you/what did you do to finish the shiplap at the first floor hallway? Does it carry around the corner and down the hall to the kitchen?
Laura
Wednesday 26th of July 2023
Hi Barb - sorry this is such a big delay. We didn't carry it around the corner in the hall to the kitchen. We ended it right at the end of the wall. Hope this helps!
Bettina
Thursday 23rd of March 2023
It is very nice! I had to google what shiplap means so i even learned a new english word. I like the clean look and your guests will feel welcome.
Courtney
Monday 3rd of January 2022
One more thing... Your dad helped you create this shiplap look? He did an amazing job! :) I absolutely love it! Sorry for all of the extra comments, I keep thinking of more to ask or say! :)
Laura
Thursday 6th of January 2022
Hi Courtney! My dad did help me create the shiplap look - he is really skilled. We tell him all of time he went into the wrong field of work :) I do not think that putting hardwood on top of hardwood would work well. I do know that a lot of the new luxury vinyl can go over top of wood floors though! Have you thought about refinishing your current floors instead? The runner was attached with a couple of small staples for each step so it would damage the floor slightly. Since our stairs were just original, basic wood risers, we weren't worried about that. We figured if we wanted to replace the runner, we would still put down another one and the small staple spots wouldn't show. There are some alternative options with carpet tape and some velcro grip type things but we wanted to make sure it stayed secure so that it wouldn't become a safety concern. I hope this helps!
Courtney
Monday 3rd of January 2022
Love it! What is your trick to getting that stair runner to stay put without ruining the floor beneath it?
Gabrielle
Sunday 3rd of January 2021
This is so pretty!! I’m just wondering bc it doesn’t mention the floor. Did you rip out the old tile and do all new flooring? Or go on top of it? Looks great!
Courtney
Monday 3rd of January 2022
@Laura, we are thinking about re-doing our floors also and have hard wood floors already. Do you think these would go over our hard wood floors? Or would we need to tear them out first?
Laura
Sunday 31st of January 2021
This type of flooring allows for you to put it right on top!! It made it SO easy to install!