Office Redo!
Hi Houzzers, I'm moving on to the next room after getting a lot of help with my fireplace decor. This room is my 11.5'x8' office/cat room. Yes cat room. There is no other room to feed her and put her little box currently. She doesn't like it in laundry room (maybe someday when we redo it she will). I'll also have my PEANUTS items in this room. I'm open to suggestions. My style is a mix of country cottage, farmhouse, rustic, traditional...Love Fixer Upper show. I like muted/toned neutral colors...especially a blue/green color I have in my home...I'll post a pic. I hope you can see the colors in pics as there is no sun today and I have no ceiling light. I'm open to suggestions. Should I leave or change wall color? The bookcase I'd like to try and keep and paint with chalk paint(I've never done but seems to be easy)..no idea on color. Unless I need something larger for bookcase. Same for that silver file cabinet...need a color. May possibly buy a larger one. The desk in photos is new and I don't want to change the look. The candlestick on desk is to show a color I like...If you can see it. The chair needs a new color as it's currently yellow...no idea if I should try and match desk or paint different color. I also need a lamp for corner as it's my only light source. Anything pink in that room is leaving. The saddle with the big snoopy on top will probably need to stay for now. No idea where to put him. The brown wood box that looks like a table on left of photo is cat box...that can be moved closer to doorway on that wall away from desk. The white stand with cat food on left in photo can be repainted or taken completely out of room. I'm sure I've forgotten something but this is a good start. This is not a room I sit in all day at all. Thanks everyone!
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Rebecca
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Comments (34)Thanks Talley, it is good to know I am not alone. It drives me crazy when I do spend hours cleaning, only to have DH come home and move something centimeters. Or I haven't touched something all day, and he will come home and move it. AAARRGH. Just leave it alone!!! Now to the office. I do have a good 2 drawer filing cabinet I think we got from an office that was moving, but it is full! Although I am sure it needs to be cleaned out. Right now we have a corner computer desk that has really no storage. Everything is on the top of the desk, cubbies, in baskets, paper, paper everywhere! I do research for a coupon website and am the secretary for the music boosters at the high school, so there is a lot of paper. Just need a better filing system. I do have in the closet a cabinet that right now houses lots of craft stuff that I haven't used in forever. I am thinking about taking that out, cleaning it out and repurposing it. Maybe paint and a little molding, a cork board on the front, baskets and labels inside... I need a real desk with drawers to put stuff away. I have 4 different rolly carts with different size drawers for various and sundry things. One holds kids school supplies I try to always have on hand so there is no running to the store in the middle of the night! Buy them in Aug/Sept when they are cheap! Then I have all my fabric, I make flannel rag quilts for friends then use the scraps to make blankies for preemies. Have lots of flannel remnants, need to get that in line. Ok, now I am stressing, just need to concentrate on one thing at a time. Today it is the paper work on the floor. Once I can get through that it won't be so bad. Thanks again, Laura...See MoreMeeting w/ builders for new addition - Any tips for newbie?
Comments (10)Motherof3, if you'd like an excel spreadsheet for budgeting I'd be happy to share mine with you. I'm doing basically what you're talking about so it's probably pretty accurate to your job. If you're comfy with 400K than you're probably ok with budget issues. I'm pushing $250 now, for a pretty high end job (over half of that is the kitchen). $400 seems high if you're not adding on to the house...but heck, in every community it's different. IF we'd have gone design/build we were talking numbers like $350k so given who you're talking to, that could be right. When we started pushing the budget upwards over $150 we decided we should look to our options. First, was the value there (we paid $600 to have an "as proposed" appraisal done). It did justify the expense as reasonable for resale. (I wanted to see a minimum of 67% return on money spent). Then we looked at other homes on lakes (we're in a townhome on a lake and didn't want to give the "lake" away). We couldn't find anything for less than $950 and it needed about $250 put into it :) We love the home, love the location, and the investment wasn't unreasonable given the value of the improved property, so we went for it. Going the GC route allowed for me to upgrade to a pretty high end level on our remodel. It meant more work for me, searching for everything from light fixtures to sinks, but I enjoyed the hunt (still doing it today actually) and think the final project will be better because of the time spent making it different from the norm (in a good way) :) The negatives of that are you don't have warranty for 100% of the job and fixtures, but I do have warranty on the work by the GC and the items I've purchased on an individual basis. I guess more work for me when they break maybe? But I'm ok with that. Even a good design/build wouldn't go to the efforts I've gone to in finding the right art deco lighting, etc...ok they might, but the budget would have pushed half a million if they had done it. Starting with that budget sheet in hand was a valuable tool for me. I'd before thought "oh $40,000 will do it...then $90..." and then I put it all on paper...and reality sunk in :)...See MoreFree CL 'office chair' re-do, just for fun!
Comments (26)Brilliant, as always! I have a chair with a similar type of back sitting in my garage right now, with the fabric removed as of this morning. I was thinking of you, because I wonder if you just figured it out yourself or used some kind of online tutorial to re-cover your chairs? The previous owner of my chair nailed the fabric to the back of the chair with the frayed edges exposed. I'm a beginner but I think I can do better than that! I was thinking I'd fold the edges under, then use (what? small upholstery nails?) to attach the fabric, and then cover the rows of nails with some kind of trim....See MoreKeep small dining room, or redo as 2nd office/library/music room?
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7 years agoHi ladies! The small metal bird letter holder came. It's cute and petite. I'm not sure I even need to paint it. S Mistry had found it awhile ago. I've picked out some photos for frames. That was a chore. I need to get them better organized on computer. Haven't printed them yet. I've been quite busy. We are also leaving for gatlinburg tomorrow! I may get a good photo there to use also. Probably sometime next week I'll be ready to start another room. Thinking our bedroom.
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7 years agoHi ladies! I do have my photos laying out on top of frames. I love it! Still waiting on my sign for corner. I did take pics of my bedroom but haven't started thread yet. We are first talking about what colors we'd like. I've asked hubby so he can be a part of. He's wanting some shades of blue. Similar to a slate blue. I have picked up some color samples to get ideas. We've been having some nice weather. Hope you all are doing good! Thanks!
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7 years agoHi ladies! Picture frames are complete and hung. It took some patience. Lol. But they look great! I have another cover for my laptop but haven't put it on yet. Other than that purple.
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7 years agoThis is a warm, inviting room -- one where you can relax as you work. I like that. You are personalizing it with meaningful objects and furniture, which is what a good room should be.
I'm appending a couple fun pieces of art, Hello, New York and Love, from Paris, which go along with the color scheme of the walls, as well as the eclectic, relaxed nature of the room. A couple larger pieces of art, as opposed to many small framed pieces, work well in a room that has many furniture and accessory items in it. You want to maintain that clear, open, fresh look as opposed to getting a sense of clutter.
Both works are available as original paintings on my Houzz page, as well as prints at my pages on Art. com (http://bit.ly/1uDnuh4) or AllPosters (http://bit.ly/1xW0ojD)
May you have many hours of satisfying work in your new office space!
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7 years agoHi ladies! Here are final pics of room. The only thing missing(unless I add something later) is the wooden sign for chair corner. Hasn't come yet. May add something to wall by door also. I've been using this room much more than I thought I would. Thank you! I hope you all come to my bedroom thread when I finally get it posted. I'll post link here. I need your help and you know what I like(after this room and living room/fireplace). Lol! Let's hope bedroom goes as smoothly as this room did.
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7 years agoAnd in case you all forgot...this is the sign I'm waiting on. I hope you all are doing great!
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