Thanks, everyone! I need to clean up the shelves and put some things away that I will obviously never need again, but.... this was the room our youngest child called "school" during his middle school years between trips to Europe and Japan, California and Costa Rica. He was playing Go competitively at that time, and we loved having the freedom to travel at will. Some of his old schoolbooks are still in that office. He's a junior in college and I am still not ready to let them go. I don't consider myself a helicopter parent but there's probably some name for a person who hangs onto an old eighth grade physics book!

Hi Eve- I love, love your room! It has such vintage character with the ceiling tiles and the picture rail and that lovely sage green color. I would leave them all. I am wondering if you have enough light in there to read and write in the evening, if the size of the chandelier is large enough for the size of the room. Guidelines are that the diameter should be in inches the sum of the length plus width in feet of the room dimensions. For example, if the room is 10' x 15', the chandelier should be 25" in diameter. The chandelier's height would be the arithmetic product of your ceiling height x 2.5 - 3. An eight foot ceiling height would have a chandelier height of 20-24." If the room is less than 10 feet high, the chandelier should be less than 27' tall. The chandelier should be hung a good 6.5 feet from the floor. If you have rather tall people in your family or 10 feet ceilings, hang it at 7 feet from the floor.Depending on the size of the room, it might need 200-400 watts. Especially if you'd rather not have to have a lot of of supplementary task lighting. I am wondering how much light that rattan-type pendant would afford you. I think the room will feel more spacious if there is more of an organizational system for your books and papers. That will leaving more visual space between your possessions and giving an overall more restful feel to the room and ultimately to you, which will leave more space and energy for inspiration. You haven't shown us the entire room and what else is in the room. Depending on the space in the rest of the room, you may be able to move your reading chair so it is not squished into the corner in the path of the doorway. You might want to move your desk. Is your desk large enough? Do you have or need a return for a printer, the hard drive, the scanner, etc? Where do you keep your office supplies? Do you have a filing system for bills, manuscripts, other projects? Do you use all those books and do you plan to keep them or do you think you could purge some? If you need to keep them, what about a book shelf system with adjustable height shelves? Rather than painting an entire wall with chalkboard paint, which will leave you with a wall full of disorganized notes similar to notes stuck to magnets on a refrigerator, here's an idea. You can easily mount a piece a pegboard to the wall over the desk. Then you can get several clipboards and paint them different colors (or get different color contact paper at the dollar store) and hang them from the pegboard. Or, you can just use a bulldog clip instead of a clipboard for a smaller piece of paper. Using diffeent type of suspensory hardware you can hang all sorts of things, or you can use cans. There are so many ideas on the web. You can get a dry erase board with marker for a dollar at the dollar store. You might be able to use a 3' x 5' rug as a wall hanging, and a larger rug as a floor covering, as long as it doesn't interfere with your desk chair. Please tack it down in some way so you don't trip on it. There is rug layering, look here, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/how-to-decorate-with-layered-rugs-and-carpets/all I love your plants in the room. The picture rail makes it easy for you to hang plants, doesn't it? Why not see if you can get cuttings from easy to propagate and grow hanging indoor plants like swedish ivy, or trailing, mounding coleus.

Love the idea of green. What about continuing it around the entire room? It’d give a very cohesive, cozy, and sophisticated English library feel, especially with your nice wood trim and beautiful window.

I think the rug will definitely help the look and it would probably help to "frame" your desk on either side with some tall lamps, tall house plants or one of each! About the side table- is serving a purpose for you? I would get rid of it if not and maybe get a smaller table to place the printer on or place the printer on one of the bottom shelves behind the desk.