Thursday, December 4, 2014

office reveal part 2


hi & welcome back to my new office. woohoo! on monday i showed you the first half of my office reveal, which was the built-in ikea hack bookcases and our work table.

the other side of the room, which i'm showing you today, is my desk area!


the desk corner looked like this when construction was first complete:


it now looks like this:



you may notice that this means our office is a secondary passageway from the entry to the kitchen. theoretically, i'm held accountable to keeping it tidy, because it's so visible from so many rooms on the main floor, doesn't have doors to close, and is pretty much the first room guests see when they arrive.






the magazine files are from ikea. a 5 pack is only about $2 so they were a great way to get a ton of storage for cheap. to label them, i used an old-school dymo from urban girl office. (by the way, i am 99% sure my friend kyla, from house of hipsters, coined the phrase bloggety blog). 


i made the bulletin board myself, by stretching duck cloth over a framed corkboard and adding brass nailheads. we originally talked about building a large one into the wall, but space constraints and commitment-phobia changed that plan.


the phrase "special delivery for laura" was on a package from my insta-girl sarah, from chalk full of love, that arrived this week. sidenote, i'd like sarah to address all packages sent to me from now on.

of course the bulletin board wouldn't be complete without my hello notecard from yes ma'am paper goods.


i wrote the "Jesus do what you want to" print after hearing those lyrics in church one morning. what a perfect prayer, right!?


the "be a voice" print was a freebie from kyla's blog that i printed about 2.1 seconds after seeing it. she's also responsible for the anna rifle bond thank you note that i used as the unofficial inspiration for the color scheme in my bookcase styling. so she's basically bombing this bloggety blog post all over the place.


kaitlin parisho designs did the no diggity print. i do tend to love rap lyrics written in gold embossed calligraphy, don't you?


my little gallery wall has a "love you" freebie printable that i made, a prada marfa photograph by andrea ament, a knock off of the "i blog because i'm not a good rapper" print by skoope home (it was sold out so i had to make my own, far inferior version, using this method), and the cutest little pug dog by ryan kapp (which i have named gooby, after my brother's dog. don't tell dyson, but he's like my favorite dog on the planet).



the flowers are totally fake. i don't want them to be- i even planned to get real ones for this shoot. but instead i'm keeping it real. by showing you my flowers are fake.




more kyla-bombing here with the freebie candle labels she made to save ugly candles everywhere. it's getting embarrassing. i must have been at the height of my house of hipsters girl crush when i decorated this office. :) she's even the one who told me about urban girl office, where i ended up getting like half my office supplies. yep, i'm a stalker. please let this be a post she doesn't read.



and that's where i work you guys! well, i actually still usually work on the couch or at the kitchen table next to some taquitos. but this is where i organize all my work stuff, do projects, pile plans, and stash my computer when i'm not writing.


in the end, i think i incorporated most of the major things i loved from my inspiration spaces and my office wishlist, and the result is an inspiring and functional room. it's so crazy different from the little school room it used to be! i also have to laugh at how pretty and put-together it is compared to the chaos happening on the other side of the bookcases! oh well, this house is one step at a time.

in case you missed it, check out part one of the reveal right here.

thanks for taking this (way overly-long) tour with me!

24 comments :

  1. I love what you have done with your office! It looks beautiful!

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  2. I had to pin this, too! My office has become a dumping ground and I am hoping to spruce it up and make it more functional after Christmas. Of course, it is in the basement and won't look NEAR as nice as yours... but, at least our basement is finished! lol! I love how clean and functional it is!!

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    1. Hahaha Carrie, well then it's my turn to be jealous...our basement is an unfinished mess that I'm scared to go down to...mostly because it's booby trapped by all my junk! At least when you start digging out you'll have walls, LOL! I'm sure your new space will be great. :)

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  3. It's looking beautiful and functional!! Great job

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  4. Incredible, how long did it take you to put it all together? ;)

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    1. Ahhh Ursula...way too long. So, we started construction in March (I think? March?) or maybe April. It was a big unused dining room that we decided to carve up into this office, and then a powder room and mudroom on the other side. The office got done in July. (So I guess 4-ish months isn't really that long when you're doing it all on your own, but it felt like an eternity). I had it "decorated" for the most part within a month or two. But I've definitely been collecting what went in it for a long time, years even. So it's nice to have a place to put it all! And in the closed cabinets we have all our homeschool stuff, which isn't as pretty BUT it is organized so yay! Thanks so much for your sweet comments!!!! Makes my day. :)

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  5. Oh my goodness, I have blog envy! Your blog is gorgeous in an understated, my kinda way! Love it. I'm going to be stalking you all night! Your office is way cool. You are a hipster!

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    1. Robin!! Thank you SO much...that is the sweetest thing to say! So glad to have found your blog & that you stopped by!! (Did I mention I have envy over your white mantel?! We're even, ha!) xo!

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  6. Laura this is GORGEOUS!! I love how open and light it is - I LOVE it! <3

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    1. Thank you Stephanie!! That means a ton coming from a gal with such style cred as yours. xoxo my new friend!

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  7. OK, so I think this really WAS the only post I never read. And I'm not sure how that happened. But it was today that I finally read it, and man oh man did you make me giggle! I love that you and I pull so much inspiration from each other! I know I've said it on your IG photo of your desk, but man it is gorgeous! LOVE!

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  8. Looks amazing!
    Love the prints on the board!
    And the table, so so pretty;)

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  9. Wow! This looks fantastic Laura... I've been seeing it on Pinterest and LOOOVING, and I finally clicked to read the whole post :)

    Im off to get some of those freebies now!

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    1. Aww yay! Thanks Colleen!! The printable looks so good in your office!!

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  10. I'm working on some sort of Ikea hack on our built ins as well. Would you mind telling me which bookcases and doors you used?
    Thanks!

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    1. Hi Carissa! Sure! We purchased 5 of the BORGSJO bookcases. They sell the doors separately so we bought one set of glass doors and one set of regular for each bookcase. The IKEA finish is a bit grayish and distressed so we painted them to match the trim in the house (Martha Stewart Pure White). The knobs are from Home Depot and are a little more substantial than what comes with the doors at IKEA. Hope this helps!

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  11. No! Pictures are not enough!!! Maybe could I just visit and hang out there for just like, a few years or so??? It's just so pretty. At the very least, can you come help me design MY office? Better yet, can you help me figure out where to put it??? (Two-bedroom-apartment-plus-a-baby problems.) P.S. I've been linking up at Kyla's linky party too- I love it! So many new things for me to pin on Pinterest- I mean, blogs to read.

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    1. Hahahaha!! Oh man, I know all about the Pinterest abyss!

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