Welcome to week 5 of the One Room Challenge! Only 3 weeks left to bring everything together. For a refresher of my progress, check out week 1, week 2, week 3 and week 4. Take a look at my reel for some more behind-the-scenes into this week's progress.

Goal of the week: Painting the ceiling

Lots of planning and ordering have been going on behind the scenes each week which I am excited to show you all in the final room reveal. But in the meantime, it's time to finish with all of the planning and prep work and start transforming the room! When painting a room you should always start from top to bottom, so I began with the ceiling.

My plan was to use Farrow and Ball’s Yeabridge Green, but at the last minute I decided to color match at my local paint shop to Benjamin Moore's Waterborne Ultra Flat Ceiling Paint to save some cost. After testing samples of both I determined that it is a surprisingly close color match, has great coverage, (arguably, even better?!), and is also zero VOC. I am extremely pleased with how it turned out.

I began by painting around the trim with an angled brush and then finished up with a roller on an extender. It went on great but needed a second coat to even out, and I am shocked at how professional it looks so far (the pictures I rushed before the paint finished drying so it still looks blotchy). What was equally shocking was how much upper strength is required to paint a ceiling with the roller! By the end of two coats, I was absolutely exhausted.

This step of painting the ceiling was already extremely validating because I can finally feel the room begin to transform away from being a sterile white box into having some actual personality.

My next week goals is to patch the holes in the walls from the electrician, hang the ceiling light, re-tape the trim and then paint the walls. Stay up to date on what others are up to over on the One Room Challenge website. Stay tuned!