SO pretty. I have always admired Ballard furniture but I've only bought accessories and Parsons chairs; good to know you like the quality.

I am the last one to worry about function, but will you really use this desk, and how? If I were using the desk, I would want an upholstered chair with arms.

I might bring in another color to the room, and use that to choose a patterned bedspread and throw pillows. Orange? Green?

Nice!

I really love that desk. Gorgeous color. Great job with the gallery wall. The black frames tie in beautifully with the bed and hardware.

Love what you’ve done! I like the second chair most, it seems to fit the feel of the room better, and I like that it has a bit of modern style. I really like the color of it, too, and lighter weight. Nice contrast with the desk.

For bedding, what about just folding the navy quilt on the end and having something (quilt, coverlet, duvet, etc) that coordinates with it?

I thought I like the Parson chair until I saw the next one. Is the second chair comfy and will you actually sit there?

Love the room!

I like a swivel chair at a desk. This one from Crate and Barrel is prettier than most I've seen.

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It’s wonderful! It looks warm, inviting, comfortable, and a place where you can get your work done easily. Big congrats!

For a regularly used desk, I would never choose a chair for appearance over comfort and ergonomics. And my office nook is in the corner of my living room.

Oooh, great idea Jinx! I am committed to having a range of blues in this room along with the off white / almost khaki head board and shades and the black metal. I could use a white or lighter blue duvet, but whatever it is I will have to have it made or remade, as there is practically nothing available in full size, it is all full/queen which is always WAY too big. I am leery of another pattern bc of the curtains but there’s probably a perfect small print or dot out there somewhere.

Mtn I am floored— and impressed—at your suggestion to use orange! At the risk of sounding hopelessly 80’s, you go, girl 😁 I might look at green as there is a nice landscape oil on the wall opposite the gallery wall that uses blues and greens. Other than that I would like it to be very restful and calm and more monochromatic, very unlike me.

I actually do use this room. The desk is where I keep my laptop for banking and bill paying, and where I keep all our paper files (auto titles, house deeds, wills, kids’ baptismal certificates, CD copies of DH’s MRIs and CT scans, stuff like that.) When I have to file a piece of paper this is the room it ends up in. My printer is behind one of the base doors and a shredder is behind the other. There are cable and cord cut outs behind all doors and shelves,, and everything locks. The laptop contains my itunes library and the Sonos system uses it as one of the music sources, and it also houses an updated list of people I stay in touch with as a member of the lay pastoral care committee (we each take part of the congregation and when they go on the prayer list we are the point person for help). It’s quiet and sunny and is perfect for the kind of calls and office stuff I do now.

I wouldn’t get an office chair with arms, I had one once when I was working and every time I sat in it I wanted to cut the arms off! Of course it could have just been that particular chair 🤔

It looks great! I love a "secretary" which is what your desk/hutch looks like. I use a vintage library desk in our home office and I prefer an armless chair. I use a wood chair with an upholstered seat. I like the parsons chair but I'm not crazy about the navy slipcover. I agree with changing out the navy bedding also. A small print would work with your drapes.

Love seeing the little sweetie on the bed! 😍

Thanks for that picture of the chair, Teeda! I am checking it out.

I think that chair is so pretty, but not delicate enough for the desk. I also think swivel is unnecessary in a small workspace, and again does not say "secretary". Therefore, if you don't care for arms, you just need a feminine yet comfy desk chair --- I think you own one. Have your tried working at the desk using the Parsons chair?

Then you could choose a small print for a coverlet and the chair ...

PS I have an orange and navy and white room in Maine, inspired by an existing rug that was there... I love S&L's artichoke pattern, in coral and in olive, but it would be too big w your drapes.

Love this Pine Cone Hill quilt in green velvet --- you could do green and blue in the pillows. Of course I just switched my BR to a blue/gr theme so may be biased!

Side question. Have you had good luck with their furniture? I bought a desk that fell apart in less than two years.

Spanish, in terms of furniture I have a French cane headboard, an upholstered queen bed, two brass floor lamps, bedding, a rattan and glass end table, a granite and iron coffetable, a sofa, a kitchen table, and now a desk. It sounds like a lot but it’s a small percentage of our furniture. Every piece we have is solidly built and (with the exception of the desk) we’ve owned for years— the trestle table that gets daily use we’ve had 17 years. (I have Ballard accessories even older.) We have the advantage of living near Atlanta and I‘ve always been able to see the furniture in their backrooms before buying if I wanted, so I knew what I was getting. The current desk was on order for a long time and it was made in Italy. I would have driven up to see it before I ordered but they didn’t have any in stock, so I spoke to one of their on-staff designer/ sales people (someone I had spoken with before) and asked about the quality and manufacturer. Those people are eager to form relationships with buyers and will answer you honestly, at least in my experience. This stuff isnt’t Baker (although the desk is certainly on that level) but the better pieces are stylish and lasting. I have a $3700 Baker side table I love but I get just as much pleasure and use from my $400 on sale Ballard side table 😁

I have another thread coming up about a different guest room that now has two pieces of custom Baker furniture from the 1970’s from my mother’s condominium. And a mahogany armoire now living downstairs!

Love your desk and the perfect wall to display your DH credentials. Teeda got me looking at chairs----from Wayfair. You could put carpet sliders on the bottom of the legs.

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Also, either chair you currently have works too - a new cover could incorporate another color if you choose or not. I do like the metal chair as well. It's a pretty room and seeing Ballard "live" makes me want to go and order now.

I think THIS bedding from Ballard Designs would be a statement piece....then you could use your current blue spread folded up on the end of the bed.

I remember when you ordered that desk because I loved the color and look and was wishing I could change out my home office to accommodate one like it. Your gallery wall is impressive. I'm no help on chairs as the fit for a desk chair is so personal depending on your height, width, posture, etc, but I will say the back of the parson's chair looks like it slants back at an angle that wouldn't be comfortable when sitting up straight at a desk.

Arapaho, cute! I have a documented weakness for rattan 🥰

This is the rest of the room

Headboard wall; faces west, good light from these windows. The ensuite has a large window also so its a cheerful spot.

Mosaic side table with a wireless charger charger, lamp Sonos speaker and a rubber coaster.

Painting with blues and greens ; to the left is the door to the bath.

If you enlarge this and zoom in the colors are much more defined. In thimbnail size it looks mostly green, but close up it is mostly blue. I pulled the wall color from this.

Fun, you’re right about the chair, its hard to buy one without sitting in it, but I have had pretty good luck and habe FINALLY gotten to the point of having a return routine!

Nicole, I saw that bedding and its very nice! I’m still hoping for something blue-y… maybe a linen duvet cover? I just found the tiny pompom trimmed, pick stitch navy quilt in a lighter blue….

So pretty! Love the desk.

I have a similar desk, with no hutch and nothing as nice as K's, and it's perfect for bill paying, writing a greeting card, whatever.

K, you are sooo good at putting a room together!

Ugh I LOVE that painting!!!!

How lovely! Such charm and character. I miss seeing rooms such as this... I still see them for everyone that has been around but on the Home Decorating/Design Dilemma I see too many rooms that are gray and beige and zero character. It almost hurts when I open the threads.

I would spend a lot of time in that cozy unique space. You have such talent!

Pretty!

I’m glad the desk is well made. I was disppointed in the quality of the furniture at the Ballard store. Its been a couple years since I’ve shopped at that mall, good for them for sourcing better manufacturers.

Love the desk! I always enjoy watching your decorating process.

Love the room- love the wall - all of it. Can you please share the wall color? I love it too!

I’ll find my swatch and report back, Salonva. I was worried the color might be too dark, but the room has enough natural light to brighten it up.

Love it-- Ive looked at that desk numerous times over the past few years. I can't make it work for my needs but so happy to see that it works for you.

I Iike the parsons chair. How does it work for you? I find mine is a little too high for my desk. I still use it sometimes but it really doesn't work well.

What a beautiful room. I love how the gallery wall came together. Did you use templates to design it, or... how?

The desk is perfection. I don't care for the look of 99% of desk chairs, and especially since you will not be sitting there all day long. I'd do a leather dining chair or a seagrass/rattan, or a tufted linen chair for texture.

Salonva the wall color is Sherwin Williams’ Faded Flaxflower. It’s an unusually saturated color for SW. If it works for the furnishings and natural light in a room in your house I think you’d really like it.

Really love that desk!! 😍

Beautiful! The desk is great as is the gallery wall. I love the colors!

Thank you for the color KSWL. I have a deck and it looks similar to a color I used in my previous house for the master bedroom . (but it was BM and it was like 25 years ago). I did love it.

It looks so great in your room.

Thanks for the extra information on Ballard furniture. I've been to the outlet/showroom a couple times while on business in ATL. Alwasy loved their furniture, so I was extra sad about my desk.

The room looks great. i love all things rattan & basket. The chair Arapaho showed would be fabulous!

Ah the elusive search for a good desk chair, figuring out if your selection has the right combination of comfort, durability, style and price . . . I've spent way too many hours on that elusive quest . . .

A more modern shape but in a blend color? With a pillow that brings it together?

Paula Executive Chair, Jubilee Sky

Scully & Scully pillow

I love that chair, Terrilynn, it looks comfortable and functional. There is plush carpet in the room so I will check it out for a swatch and version that does not roll. The pillow captures all of the main colors in the painting, how did you do that??

Checking this on my laptop there is no ability to thank the last several posters for responding--seems I can only do that on my ipad, how bizarrely this site functions (or doesn't) sometimes. I appreciate all the feedback and suggestions. I had been avoiding this room because it was so jumbled and unfinished. At least at this point it is together enough to leave the door open, which reminds me to come in and take care of the stuff I need to do.

I've ordered a lighter blue textured duvet cover and hope to use that with the navy quilt folded at the foot of the bed. Hopefully the new blue will be in the right range. I haven't been able to find a print that's just right and may just table that. The curtains are bossy enough and I am finding solid colors very soothing these days.

Even though we have been living here two years I haven't even started on the big room downstairs; it is still a repository for all the furniture I couldn't let go of and a few new, inexpensive things. Big surprise though, the gigantic leather sectional from IKEA has been used, abused, slept on, eaten on, and everything else-ed on and it is wearing like iron, so whatever I do it will stay.

When unpacking my mother's stuff I came across a pencil drawing of my father and, incredibly, a colored pencil drawing of my mother! I'm having both framed and may need help finding a place for them :)

What a wonderful find - the drawings of your parents!! My MIL urged me to have a portrait done with my DS, I always declined - not feeling thin or pretty enough to capture my moment in time. What a regret!

I love the secretary - the size and finish are wonderful. And the painting!

I was in target the other day and saw a really pretty small block print quilt - let me see if I can find it. Think it was Threshold, if your light blue one doesn't work.......I remember it having a natural background vs. bright white to coordinate with your bed upholstery.

https://www.target.com/p/lofty-cotton-slub-wood-block-floral-quilt-white-threshold-designed-with-studio-mcgee/-/A-83727476?preselect=83249674#lnk=sametab