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If you’re new here, welcome! I’m Sasha. My husband, Matt, and I have slowly been renovating and decorating our Victorian home, while trying to maintain its historic charm. For this One Room Challenge, we renovated our sunroom.

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I have been following the One Room Challenge for inspiration since we moved into our home nearly 2 and a half years ago, so it was a thrill to participate for the first time this spring when we tackled our guest bathroom renovation! For this One Room Challenge, we will be finishing our sunroom. I will be sharing the progress on Instagram as well as here.

This week’s progress:
This week has been very productive! I have almost finished the green accent chairs. The last things I need to do are sew together the skirt for the second chair, attach it, attach the fringe to the skirts for both chairs, and attach the buttons. I still need to reupholster the second set of chairs. Luckily, those chairs are smaller and it shouldn’t require any sewing. I purchased premade piping for them so I do not need to take the time to sew that too.
Here is what the first chair looks like so far!

Over the weekend, I found another inexpensive garden stool at a vintage shop that I couldn’t pass up because the colors work so well with the palette for this room.

Here is the trim I plan on using on the green chairs.

This is the fabric and piping for the smaller accent chairs.

The lamps don’t need to sit on the floor anymore! I couldn’t find any side tables with the appropriate dimensions on Facebook Marketplace so I ordered these over the weekend and they arrived on Monday.

This mirror was another find from a vintage shop over the weekend.

I grabbed one of my potted camellias from outdoors to stick in this decorative pot for the picture. However, Ermen the plant inspector took issue with it so I swapped it out for one of the plants in our living room.

As you may remember, I ordered the fabric for the curtains back in July during a sale. I began sewing this weekend and quickly realized I didn’t have enough fabric. Well, it turns out I accidentally used a length of 78″ in my initial calculations instead of 87″. I tried reordering the fabric from the site I purchased it from in July, but it had gone out of business. So, I placed an order elsewhere. Then, yesterday, I was notified that that fabric is backordered until the end of the month. Now I need to find another source for it ASAP. Don’t do what I did – remember to measure twice and order once!
Remaining tasks to accomplish:
- Finish reupholstering chairs
- Finish sewing curtains
- Make lampshades
- Install curtain rods
- Install wall shelves for plants
- Purchase new door knob
- Source and purchase ottoman
- Source and purchase remaining accents and décor
Make sure to check out all of the fabulous spaces that are being renovated for this season’s One Room Challenge here. Thank you for reading. Good luck to everyone with your renovations!
