Decorating a home office with beige carpet, bamboo desk and red chair
Hello,
I've been perusing the web, pin, this boards for ideas of where to start in decorating my new home office. It's not clear to me as it's not my strength but I've read enough to know where to go with it.
I have white walls, beige carpet and a big 72" bamboo desk, a cham cage which is wire mesh and black. I have various action figures and statues I want to display, but not sure how to set-up a color scheme. I've thought about doing contrasting black and white on the walls for stands and I really like the idea of having bronze or gold for a floor lamp and some other accents. The problem that I have is that I feel that my bamboo desk is too light. The carpet is a beige color. The walls. It just feels like it doesn't stand out enough.
I also have a herman miller chair that is red and a standing pad that is also red that I could play off with some accent red wall shelves or something. I'm honestly not sure how to approach matching stuff with the bamboo desk.
The dimensions for the room are 11'1" x 11'8" but as you can see from the pictures, there is a section that the wall sinks in to where the door is at.
I'm even at a point where I'm considering getting a different type wood desk top for my standing desk. I don't want to paint the walls at this point. The carpet will probably be replaced in some years. So I'm trying to maximize what I can do right now. I want a functional space with some vibrancy. At this point anything goes except for obviously the main red chair and black standing desk legs. And the cham cage is also going to stay in here but as far as the rest, it isn't permanent.
I attached some pictures of some of the gold accents I think would go with everything. I just think it might be too light.
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4 years agowhat if you put the desk in front of the window, less screen glare, and a better view, kitty can still sit up there.
move the chair across from the door, and maybe room for a hang out chair right there and then put shelves on the wall the desk is on now, and maybe if you need more on the wall the door is is on and the wall opposite the window. Since action figures are primary colors maybe you can play into that pallet ....
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago@RL Relocation LLC Here is a rough drawing with dimensions of the office. My desk is on the longest wall. The window at the bottom of the drawing. My desk is about 72" and I've been seriously thinking of getting a different wood desk top that is smaller at about 63" to fit on that wall space next to the door. Something like a mesquite desktop or something. My desk is a standing desk so I'll be keeping the black base.
The reason why I didn't put my desk against the window is mainly because of the giant monitor that is on an arm that wouldn't let me look outside anyways but I'm open to options.
I do really think that my desk is way to big though. Also, the closet(which is at the bottom left of the picture in case its hard to tell has built in bookshelves. Although shelve space is always good, I've been looking at tons of wall shelves to utilize the vertical space more.
I also added some more offices I liked to my profile. I'm a big fan of the contrasting natural colors and I want to incorporate live plants and such as well.
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