My Favorite $100 Room Makeovers: Celebrating Two Years of the $100 Room Challenge

Next week marks the two-year anniversary of the $100 Room Challenge (and the start of another round) 🙂  This challenge started as I was scrolling through picture-perfect images on Pinterest, wondering why I was not a millionaire with oodles of money to spend on my home. Instead of sulking over it, I decided to do something about it. What if I gave myself a budget of $100 to spend on a room? Could I actually accomplish anything with it? I decided to try it out in my mudroom. The result was pretty impressive, and I loved the thrill of working with such a strict budget because I had to get creative and think outside the box. So, the $100 Room Challenge was born.

After doing the challenge by myself for 16 months, I decided to ask some blogger friends to join me… Honestly, I was a bit nervous. What if they didn’t really grasp the concept? I mean no offense, but please don’t buy a $95 lamp and call it good. This is supposed to be a big transformation on a tiny budget. My fears were put to rest the moment the reveals started going up. I could not believe what people ended up doing in one month’s time with only $100.

In celebration of the two year anniversary of the $100 Room Challenge, I’m sharing some of my favorite $100 makeovers over the past 3 challenges (which is when others joined in). While choosing my favorites, I found myself loving bathroom makeovers a whole lot, so this is really my favorite bathroom reveals, plus a couple others thrown in for good measure 🙂

In total there have been 80 makeovers done with $100 budget ):

• 25 Bathrooms (This is why I like so many bathrooms; they’re in the majority)
• 15 Bedrooms
• 8 Hallways/Entries
• 7 Closets
• 6 Laundry Rooms
• 5 Dining Rooms
• 4 Craft Rooms
• 4 Living Rooms
• 2 Family Rooms
• 2 Pantries
• and 2 Sunrooms/Porches

The very first reveal I saw from another participant was this bathroom nook from Bigger Than the Three of Us… WHAT?!

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Then came this powder room from By Brittany Goldwyn. Whoever says you shouldn’t go with black paint, needs to see this bathroom!

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Since we’re on a roll with bathrooms, here’s another favorite from Twelve on Main.

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Leaving the world of bathrooms (about time), let’s take a look at the most amazing craft room from Houseful of Handmade. I still can’t believe everything that was done in here for $100…

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While one may never actually like doing laundry, it might be better in a space like this from DIY Beautify!

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Is it okay to start talking about bathrooms again? I hope so because you have got to check out this transformation from The Frugal Homemaker! Can we say ah-mazing?!

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… and this one from Jonesville.

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So, which room in my house is my favorite $100 Room Challenge? I’d probably go with my laundry room…

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… or (you’ll never guess)… the master bathroom 🙂

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Be sure to join us next week when another round begins. I’m sure they’ll be nothing short of incredible!

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