If you came here from the ORC site, hello! I’m Sanju Patel. By day, I work behind a desk, typically crunching numbers. By night, you can find me in a garage. My wife and I purchased a home in Texas 4 years ago – a quick close without costly bells and whistles. As lifelong fans of DIY, … Read more
It’s week 6 of the Spring ORC 2022. This year marks the 10th anniversary with an amazing partner in Apartment Therapy. I have come to accept that I may not be concluding this chapter of ORC by the time week 8 arrives. The plans were ambitious for 8 weeks, especially in a post-covid era where … Read more
It’s week 5 of the Spring ORC 2022. This year marks the 10th anniversary with an amazing partner in Apartment Therapy. We have a few balls in the air (mind you I’m a terrible juggler). Here are some updates. If you came here from the ORC site, hello! I’m Sanju Patel. By day, I work behind … Read more
It’s week 4 of the Spring ORC 2022. This year marks the 10th anniversary with an amazing partner in Apartment Therapy. We have some updates, yay! Finally! If you came here from the ORC site, hello! I’m Sanju Patel. By day, I work behind a desk, typically crunching numbers. By night, you can find me in … Read more
It’s week 3 of the Spring ORC 2022. This year marks the 10th anniversary with an amazing partner in Apartment Therapy. So far, we’re making incremental progress at a snails pace (our household, including myself, was hit with a stomach bug all week). The sci-fi vision has taken a back seat, but hoping by week … Read more
It’s week 2 of the Spring ORC 2022. This year marks the 10th anniversary with an amazing partner in Apartment Therapy. And guess what? We’re already falling behind! You know, last week felt like Week 0 and this week feels like Week 1. But fear not, we have a plan that we intend to carry … Read more
Welcome to the Spring ORC 2022! As we enter our third participatory season, we’re reminded of season one and season two, inspiring us to make incremental progress in transforming our home (if you haven’t yet visited, check out our Instagram stories). The challenge introduces us to a supportive community of talented designers over the course of … Read more
The final week of the One Room Challenge concludes and of course, there’s a REVEAL! An inspired library transitions to a minimalist WFH office before finally arriving in a charged up gym zone ready to pump it up! Sometimes we’re victims of our own doing. Never satisfied, we relentlessly re-ran the staging until finally calling it … Read more
144 HOLES LATER, we finally have ourselves a storage pegboard for the office/gym makeover! And we are quite surprised at it’s storage versatility. Progression: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 If you came here from the ORC site, hello! I’m Sanju Patel. … Read more
Hello folks! Patience is a virtue for week 6. We’re trying our best to keep it together, almost regretting over-commitment to this office/gym makeover. Haven’t quite made as much progress this week. But, we’ll truck on! By the way, give a round of applause to all of the ORC participants making some waves. Some amazing … Read more