Changes at Home- A New Office

And we did this:

Having our second little guy on the move pretty much put a stop to projects unless there’s a babysitter around.  Our house has 5 bedrooms but two of them on our on lower level.  We’ve been using one as a guest room and the other as my husband’s workout room/ our storage room.  The business is growing quickly & at this point I’m trying to avoid moving out of my house into an office (a number of reasons: schedule, expense, working in my SWEATS and I feel like I’d never see my family} SO…  we rearranged our storage (which is mostly clients’ odds & ends /  furniture) and got a storage unit ,and my husband has been working out with friends out of the house daily anyway, so we stored the bench press & big weights and now have a freed up room for an additional office. yay!!

Anyway, unfortunately, the room has had a drop ceiling (arrggggg) so we tore it down in about 20 minutes a couple of weeks ago while the kids were napping.  It also has weird walls.  Like really weird.  I really don’t know what the previous owners were thinking here…  It was some sort of painted peg board??  All over the drywall panelling??  So, we have a lot of unfun stuff to do before the pretty part.   We’re tearing that down & exposing the drywall/ painting and adding in a normal ceiling.  The carpet in there is perfeectly clean/ new but I’m thinking of addding in more wall to wall seagrass.  My husband & I are worthless at drywalling, so our contractors are coming in to save the day.

I looove my current home office except it’s open off of our family room so there are times when I (or my assistant- Meghan!) need to escape to quiet, so I’m excited about adding this new “quiet” space. I think it will be Meghan’s office and I’ll store the lamptop there & work in there half the time, but I’ll probably continue working out projects on the large work table in the main office.  { I also bug Meghan all day long so she might get more work done this way 😉 😉

Anyway, it’s a very teeny space so I’ve been playing with floorplans & furnishings.  Another thing I’m just getting into is its mood.  Offices I tend to love are bright & large & open & airy feeling.

This one will be more cramped cozy.

So I really want to figure out the mood here, because that open & airy thing just isn’t happening.  I’m thinking of going a tad warmer & maybe a little vintage libraryish…

I’ll keep you posted and will be sure to post before & afters.  eeeeek can’t wait!

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