Linda W 4/5/17 Linda W 4/5/17

One Room Challenge™, Spring 2017, Week 1

Well here we are, my personal favorite time of the year. For those of you coming here for the first time, welcome! I'm Linda, and six years ago, I created this biannual event called the One Room Challenge™. For the next six Wednesdays, these twenty amazingly talented design bloggers will take you behind the scenes as they transform their rooms...week by week. I hope you visit their sites each week as they share the good, the bad, and the unexpected of real life room design.

Old Brand New

The ORC Featured Designers are so fortunate to have the option to include gorgeous products in their spaces from the following sponsors:

Mohawk Home | NewWall | Parima Studio | The Shade Store | Varaluz

Here are a few of my favorite items from the official ORC sponsors. I could find a place for all of them.

Thanks for stopping by. Remember to come back tomorrow where you can sort through endless inspiration from around the globe.

Linda W 4/3/17 Linda W 4/3/17

It's Spring - and that can only mean one thing

It's One Room Challenge™ time! I know, you thought I was lying around on the beach in the happiest town in the US. Maybe next season, because I have been hard at work preparing for a spectacular spring event.

Isn't this view amazing. This home belongs to a lovely couple who enjoys hosting parties for business associates. Somehow I made the list.

Back to the ORC - This Wednesday kicks off the eleventh season. Yes, this will be the sixth year (2 seasons per year) of bringing you as much inspiration and motivation humanly possible through this collaborative event.

You are not going to want to miss this amazing group of talented designers. Trust me, it's good. And let's not forget about the uber-talented Guest Participants. Remember to come by on Thursdays for even more inspirational interior design ideas.

If you are planning on participating as a guest, you can grab a logo here. If you would like an idea on how to pace blog posts, read this (NOTE: the dates don't match from this older post). Just in case you are not sure how to link up your post (this is really old) you can read this. Also, feel free to register as a guest so you can keep up to date on the latest news.

I have so much more to tell you over the coming weeks. It feels great to be back at Calling it Home. Cheers!

Linda W 11/10/16 Linda W 11/10/16

One Room Challenge™ Guest Participants, Week 6

There is so much talent in these rooms, please take the time to visit and share your comments with them.

I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am for today! What could possibly be better than seeing yesterday's room transformations? How about over 200++ more rooms!

There is so much talent in these rooms, please take the time to visit and share your comments with them. If you participated, I hope you had a great time. If you did not jump in this round, you may want to consider taking the challenge in the spring.

The ORC is an event where everyone is a winner! I will be talking more about this at the Design Bloggers Conference in Beverly Hills. I am really excited to share with you what I have learned along this eventful and visually stunning road. I hope I'll see you there. It's going to be so much fun.

And now, The Rules:

1. Only link up rooms dedicated to the One Room Challenge. The purpose of this event is to support one another in finishing a room.

2. Your post should include information about your space and a link back to the ORC link-up page so the readers can easily navigate through the other rooms.

3. Please be respectful of this interior design event and only have links that relate to your One Room Challenge space. Guiding the viewers away from this event is not in the spirit of the ORC and won't be permitted.

Remember to tag @oneroomchallenge and @housebeautiful on Instagram! #oneroomchallenge

Let's go share some love.

Linda W 11/9/16 Linda W 11/9/16

One Room Challenge™, Fall 2016, Week 6!

Well this is it! Here we are at the final week of the One Room Challenge. What started out as a fun idea, has grown into a biannual event viewed by millions...

MEDIA PARTNER

Well this is it! Here we are at the final week of the One Room Challenge. What started out as a fun idea, has grown into a biannual event viewed by millions....over 3 million (not including the additional event coverage from House Beautiful, ORC's official Media Sponsor and all the other additional coverage)! The One Room Challenge™ is a brand and a business constantly evolving.

With my small team, I work passionately behind the scenes, rarely discussing the process of coordinating and executing all the moving parts. Between the designers, the sponsors, and the guest participants, there are a lot of pieces that make up the exciting puzzle called the ORC.

Sound interesting? Want to know more? Gosh, I hope so, because I will be sharing lots at the Design Bloggers Conference in Beverly Hills! I am really excited to share with you what I have learned along this eventful and visually stunning road. I hope I'll see you there. It's going to be so much fun.

And now, thank you to these amazing designers who have brought it BIG for you. Remember, in this event, everyone is a winner. Let's go see their rooms.....

Jana Bek | Chris Loves Julia | Shannon Claire | Coco.Kelley | The Curated House

Driven by Décor | The English Room | From the Right Bank | Sherry Hart

Hi Sugarplum | House of Jade | Hunted Interior | The Makerista | Making it Lovely

Marcus Design | Pencil & Paper Co. | Megan Pflug | Place of My Taste | Suburban B’s

Waiting on Martha Media Partner House Beautiful | TM by CIH

The ORC designers are so fortunate to have the option to include gorgeous products in their spaces from the following sponsors:

And don't forget to come back tomorrow to see 228 more transformations!

See you on Instagram #oneroomchallenge

Linda W 11/3/16 Linda W 11/3/16

One Room Challenge™ Guest Participants, Week 5

Ok, you need to listen to me. We are at week 5....week 5! Some people like to think (and I let them) that I sit back and watch all of this unfold. NOT. SO.

Ok, you need to listen to me. We are at week 5....week 5! Some people like to think (and I let them) that I sit back and watch all of this unfold. NOT. SO. Behind the scenes, I give lots of advice, tips and strategies to be successful at the One Room Challenge™. Let me give you the most important piece of advice.....

It's all about the pictures!

I wish it wasn't that way, but it is. Get over it. Snap out of it. And show up! Show up next week with the best photos you have ever had on your site. We all know someone with a fancy camera and some photo-enhancing skills. Maybe it's you? If not, get that person to help you.

Why?

I'm so glad you asked :). Because in this visually stimulating world of ours, you only have one chance to make that lasting impression. Believe me when I tell you that thousands of people will be coming by to see your final reveals. Some of them will be in the position to feature your room.

You got this!

A quick reminder of the exclusive ORC discount courtesy of ATGSTORES.com, one of the fabulous sponsors that make all of this possible, only available to One Room Challenge viewers.

$100 OFF YOUR TOTAL OF $199 OR MORE.

USE CODE ONEROOM100

And now, The Rules:

1. Only link up rooms dedicated to the One Room Challenge. The purpose of this event is to support one another in finishing a room.

2. Your post should include information about your space and a link back to the ORC link-up page so the readers can easily navigate through the other rooms.

Remember to tag @oneroomchallenge & @housebeautiful on Instagram.

Linda W 11/2/16 Linda W 11/2/16

One Room Challenge™, Fall 2016, Week 5

This is week 5 of the 6 week room transformation event, the One Room Challenge™. If you are new, then you came at the most nail-biting time....week 5.

Let me bring you up to speed. For the last 5 Wednesdays (including today), twenty design bloggers have been crazily transforming rooms and documenting the process. We are talking real life homes across the internet. AND, if that isn't enough inspiration for you, on Thursdays, over two hundred and twenty-something additional bloggers are transforming their rooms, too! I know....inspiration and pinspiration for days and days.

Here's the lineup of featured design bloggers.