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Hello friends,<\/p>\n

{If you are new here, welcome! I’m an Interior Decorator living in Milton, ON, just outside of Toronto.}<\/p>\n

Welcome to week 3 of the One Room Challenge<\/a> where I am renovating and decorating my basement in five weeks and documenting the process in six weekly blog posts. The countdown is on – three weeks until reveal day (or 2.5 weeks until my photographer will be here to shoot the space. I didn’t even realize that until I typed it – oh my!)\u00a0 In previous posts, I have shared the Before photos of the space and inspiration photos as well as the floor plan and design concept. You can catch up on those posts here:<\/p>\n

Week 1<\/a> | Week 2<\/a><\/p>\n

I tweaked the design a little from last week. Here is the revised design concept:<\/p>\n

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And these are some of the changes I made:<\/p>\n

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  1. I did a Poll in an Instagram<\/a> story asking my followers which colour Annie Selke rug I should go with – grey or brown? Around 80% said grey but I sided with the minority and went with the brown<\/a> as I felt it was different, a nice contrast to the darker grey sectional plus a little more forgiving in terms of spills and stains. It actually has small grey circles within it, so it goes perfectly with my black\/white\/grey\/pink\/brown colour scheme.\u00a0 I know that sounds like a rainbow of colours but as you can see it looks calm because other than the pink, the colours are neutrals (although I think blush pink is a neutral as well.) And did you know that brown is back? #brownisthenewblack<\/li>\n
  2. I also chose a coffee table and I’m having it shipped to a UPS store across the border and I will drive there in the next week to pick it up. It would have taken 10 weeks to arrive in Canada if I had it delivered to my home and of course I didn’t have that sort of time.\u00a0 (Well, I could have had the time if I had my ducks in a row and ordered 10 weeks ago.)<\/li>\n
  3. And I changed the door style in the kitchen as my TV console has flat panel doors so I thought it would be more interesting visually plus provide contrast. I love this pull<\/a> from TopKnobs and feel it would look perfect on the shaker style door.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The jumping off point for the design scheme is the Schumacher wallpaper<\/a> with its blush, grey, brown, black and white hues. Every space needs a jumping off point for colour and it’s usually a fabric, area rug or wallpaper. (PS if you click on the Schumacher link, you will see a photo of my ensuite with the grey version of the wallpaper.)<\/p>\n

    The space will be painted in Benjamin Moore<\/a> Simply White OC-117. I knew the basement had to be white but I went back and forth between which one. Simply White\u00a0 is a colour I have used and recommended for years on trim especially and all the trim and doors in my house are this colour. My first floor is painted in a colour I hadn’t really heard of before – Gardenia AF-10 which I absolutely love. I think Simply White is a crisper white which is what I need for my dark basement. The colour shown beside it above is Balboa Mist OC-27\u00a0 and this will be the colour of the two doors – it’s a light greige. The Black shown (HC-190) will be the colour of the three doors from Metrie that will act as a room divider.<\/p>\n

    The grey linen look Crypton fabric from JF Fabrics is Evan 64<\/a> and the gorgeous L-shaped sectional from Whittington’s<\/a> will be covered in it. The photo above isn’t really the shape or style of my sectional. Next week, I will share more about the sectional and hopefully have an in progress photo of it to show you. The cocoa coloured velvetish<\/em> fabric is this one<\/a> from JF and the grey patterned one is this one<\/a> from John Robshaw’s line with Duralee – they are for pillows.\u00a0 The wallpaper is the main pattern in the space and I didn’t want anything competing with it.<\/p>\n

    Flooring:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I was really hoping for the flooring to be installed at the time of writing this so that I could show you how it looks in my space. You can see the large sample in the image above.\u00a0 It is Karndean’s new product Korlok<\/a> which has a rigid core different from its looselay luxury vinyl collections. Karndean gives you the look and feel of natural products, but with the durability and resilience of luxury vinyl.<\/p>\n

    I chose this product because it really mimics wood and doesn’t look fake or uniform. These are some of the properties and benefits of Korlok which made choosing this product an easy decision:<\/p>\n