One Room Challenge Week 3 :: The Cedar Wall

Yee haw, we’re past the boring part of my One Room Challenge!!

We’ve got a feature wall people, and it’s cedar shingles.

Now for the backstory…

Here’s a way-back-when photo of the room we are working on. I took this photo shortly after we moved in and the reason why I wanted to you see it is way up there at the top of the photo above the washer and dryer–see those wood planks? Those are cedar.

This room is an addition and this house was a cedar covered house when it was first built. Since then it’s been covered in white vinyl siding, but this one little area of the house still had the original cedar.

What did I do with that cedar?

I painted it. Womp. And yep, I do regret that. But at the time, to preserve a three foot high wall of cedar at the top of a 12 foot wall where every other wall and the ceiling were being sprayed with paint was just not something I could deal with. Plus, we had a full cedar bathroom so I was good.

But now that we are focusing on this room again, I wanted to bring some of that cedar back, this time in the form of shingles–we just bought them in stacks from Lowe’s. At first I was just going to do the top part of the wall where the original cedar was, but I liked it so much that we decided to bring it down the entire wall.

So it went from this…

to this

The great thing was that we didn’t even have to worry about the wall underneath, we knew we were going to cover it up so when we replaced what we tore out, we just nailed up some scrap wood that we had.

Meanwhile, I insisted the cedar look imperfect so Sean purposely nailed the shingles up cattywampusly to make me happy. And happy I am.

I want to make a statement even in a small room and this wall treatment is the perfect nod to the old cedar house and quirky character we love. And, it emphasizes that this room is an addition–which I like (and we’re planning on adding some more cedar shingles around the property to tie it all in together). Plus, it was the perfect backdrop for the signature piece of the room that I cannot wait to share with you next week.

Here’s a refresher on where I’m headed–I’m planning on lots of storage!

hutch (lovely storage!!!) / chandelier (to die for!) / artwork (country statement with a modern feel) / cowhide chair / ghost table / bowl/ vintage rug / armoire (hidden storage that works with the hutch)