"When you move into a home, especially a relatively new one, it's easy to think that all the grand ideas you have will come together rather quickly. (After all, the challenges that come with updating decades-old houses and apartments - like removing decaying insulation, knocking down unnecessary walls, or tearing out bad pipes - don't exist.) But even a new brand-new house takes time to finalize, and that was the case for Roxanne Flett (@roxy_home_living) - especially in her living room."
"Flett's farmhouse property was built in 2013, and while the living area had plenty of natural light, she thought the space lacked character and felt slightly disjointed. "The TV wall and the baseboards were not to scale with the 11-foot-high ceilings," she says. "I was always trying to figure out ways to photograph that room without showing the wall because it never photographed well."
Moving into a new house often creates an expectation that design ideas will come together quickly, but even new homes require time and fixes. Roxanne Flett moved into a 2013 farmhouse and found the living room light-filled yet lacking character and scale. The TV wall and baseboards were undersized for the 11-foot-high ceilings, making the space photograph poorly. After three years of planning, participation in the One Room Challenge led to an eight-week DIY plan to install picture frame molding. Creating a flat surface required removing wall texture by skim-coating, a task she had never done and found difficult despite extensive online research. The TV wall measures 11 feet high by 17 feet wide.
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