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This week I added some green to my dining space with a fiddle leaf fig tree...

It's a 7 footer and fills the empty corner beautifully. Both my husband and I love it. Best of all, I can't kill it! It's an artificial one from NDI - the place to go for the best faux botanicals and florals (did you see Jana's peonies during the spring ORC season??) I made an attempt to have a real one, but it sadly didn't survive. Perhaps if I tried harder or did a different plant I'd have better luck, but aside from the fact that this downstairs space gets very limited natural light due to our covered patio and the lack of windows, it's really not a priority for me right now to try to improve my gardening skills. For this reason I decided getting a faux tree was the way to go.

In other news, I gathered (most of) the supplies I need for the Expedit makeover. I've decided to add doors and dress them up with decorative panels from the fabulous company O'verlays. I ordered a custom greek key pattern and I'm so excited to attach the panels.

Ikea Expedit doors with O'verlays Custom Greek Key Pattern // Arianna Belle One Room Challenge Week 4 update http://ariannabelle.com/blog

I'm not sure what placement I want to go with though. There are four options:

Which one would you go with? I'll leaning towards Option 1 or 3.

I'm hitting myself over the head because unfortunately, for some dumb reason, I only picked up six doors and I needed eight. Doh! So I need to make the hour and a half drive out to Ikea again to pick up the other two.

I wish I had more updates and photos for you, but I'm still waiting on most of the bigger things. I should hopefully (fingers crossed!) have an arm chair, dining chairs, and a rug to share photos of during next week's post. Stay tuned!

Last week I mentioned I'd be bringing in some color in my living dining space with some pillows, art and accessories. With so many options, I was indecisive on what exactly that would be, but ultimately I settled on using the Indian Arbre Hyacinth pillow as the color jumping off point and pulling out the blues and purples:

Once I chose that main pillow, I played around with different coordinating options. I landed on the Marine Blue Velvet, Java Java Navy and a light purple velvet. I also gave my sister Patty of Parima Studio, a swatch of the Indian Arbre Hyacinth fabric and she worked her magic to create a custom painting. What you see in the photo above is a sample print. We may make a few final modifications, then will get it blown up to a 24x30 piece that will go in the dining space, between the window and the front door.

Aside from that, I checked a few other things off my design to-do list. I selected and ordered the dining table, which should hopefully arrive later this week. I went to Lowe's with my husband to buy what we (ok he) needed to hide the TV wires. I started putting the art that arrived earlier, up on the gallery wall.

L: Lula by Parima Studio, R: Arc de Triomphe Paris by Phrosne Ras

Last but not least, I unpacked these beauties which are going in the dining space and will be adding some much needed light:

They're called Hollywood Glam. I love their classic double gourd shape (my favorite for lamps) and that lucite bottom! They're also a nice size, so they'll help fill out the space nicely. I can't wait to add mirrors to the wall behind them!

There's still much left to do in 3 short weeks. It's going by so fast! More of the things I've ordered should start arriving (or be ready for me to pick up) so hopefully I'll have more photos for you next week. I also need to do an Ikea run (for frames, etc.), paint and fix my flea market entry tables (photo here), work on my Expedit makeover (fingers crossed it will look as I imagine it in my head), among other things. Stay tuned!

In case you missed it: Week 1, Week 2

ORC Fall 2015 Participants

The One Room Challenge Week 4

The One Room Challenge Week 3

L: Lula by Parima Studio, R: Arc de Triomphe Paris by Phrosne Ras