Home Tour: Office Design

We have been busy decorating (or at least dreaming of decorating) our new home since we moved in last month. Since we have rented for almost two years now, I had forgotten how much I LOVED to decorate!! I have also realized how hard it is to be patient. As much as I love the process of decorating - designing, searching for the perfect pieces, and pulling it all together, I also want the immediate gratification and I want it done NOW! Ha, I guess I will have to utilize the patience I learned over the last two years (when waiting to buy our new home). 

Soooo, one of my first Home Tour posts will be on my office. Since this is the room I spend most of my time in since I work from home, I think its only fair that its one of the first rooms in the house that I complete. Don't you?

My vision for this room includes lots of natural light, pops of color (teal), and a little flare with touches of animal print. I am in LOVE with animal print (as is everyone else these days). I know that it goes in and out of style, but I am taking the leap and sprinkling it here in there in our new home.

Here is a before picture. Its the best that I have, but you get the idea. Certainly a clean slate.  There are french doors and a beautify picture window looking out to the front yard. We live on a corner lot so I get a great view of the "happenings" in our neighborhood during the day. So far, just a lot of construction vehicles. Our home is only one a few completed ones on our street so far.

I was not planning on furnishing my office right away. I had a perfectly usable executive desk that I had purchased on Craig's List a few years ago when I became a full-time work at home employee. However, it certainly had seen its better days and when we put it in our new home, its better days seemed LONG gone.  While perusing furniture stores for those items higher on our priority list (e.g. couch, breakfast table, guest room mattress set, etc) I came across this beauty and COULD NOT PASS IT UP!!! Can you see why?!?!

I don't think these pictures of the Aspenhome Young Classics Executive Desk do it justice. 

 I love, love, love the decorative drawer pulls and the design in the woodwork. I think this adds a touch of femininity to this large executive desk.

I fell in love with a rug a the furniture store I purchased the desk from but I could not justify the $400 price tag. 

So I have been on the hunt for weeks to find something similar. What I found is much better than the rug I fell in love with!!! AND....it was only $100 (tax and shipping included!!)

As mentioned in the online reviews, the coloring was different than the online photo below, but I love what I got!

 What a difference, eh?

 

I am on a serious teal kick these days. I have never been one to step outside of the neutral zone when it comes to home decorating but I have recently found comfort in teal. Yes, teal!! I found these on a recent trip (which I average about two days a week now <blush>) to HomeGoods. Love, love, love!!!

I hope to find a place for these in my office soon. They are a perfect match to a beauty I recently splurged on for my entry way (for a post to come soon). Yup, you guessed it...its teal.

My inspiration for the layout of the room came from the model of our home.

I hadn't thought of positioning the desk at an angle like this one, but I arranged mine like it and I love it! I also love the build-ins. I am not sure they will fit with the executive desk that I chose, considering its much larger than the one pictured here. I am going to measure it out and see if I can pull it off. If the built-ins are a no go then I will have to figure out what to do with my printer, phone and other office paraphernalia. 

I am currently on the hunt for a chair and small table to go in front of the window. This is where I would like to highlight the teal accents in the room. Will let you know what I find...