My first wish is to be able to speak French.
Second wish: to be able to fly. (what? world peace mayble? ok, both.)
Third wish: some divinely inspired
desk space.
...Until you grant me my third wish, these inspiration pictures shall suffice:
Ok, genie or not, I will have an inspiration board like that within the month!
This is a beautiful (and feminine!) desk space.
I simply adore it. Calm soothing colors, plenty of storage place, windows placed perfectly for daydreaming...
I love the gabled roof and the white shelving. This is a very calm, restful home office.
If it were mine, I would probably have a different chair. This one is a bit... Garrison Keillor/ Prairie Home Companion. (Does that make as much sense to you as it does to me? I hope so.)
Maybe this white one:
(or that yellow-green if I felt like going funky. But for this office, I would want serenity! So, white.)
from Outblush.com
King Louis chairs
-- probably my favey kind of chair IN the world... so clean! so classic! so pretty!
These chairs are fairly easy to come by if you have time to scour a few estate sales or garage sales. Or even better--keep your eye out on
CraigslistAnd better yet? They are paintable, re-coverable-- you can achieve any look you're going for!
Now, back to offices!
This office reminds me of the architecture building where I went to college.
I loved studying in that building!
Nope, I wasn't an architecture major (although that would have been cool.) Anthropology!
Can you imagine the amount of work you'd get done here?
I know... a lot.
I like that they softened up the mod look with an oriental rug.
A desk for writing thank-you notes. And not a whole lot more, but who cares? It's pretty.
See the coral lamp on the desk? Coral-inspired accessories are everywhere right now.
Lamps, pillows, bowls + centerpieces.
ooooo. Que ladylike. This looks like it might be in one end of a sun room. I like the contrast of the dark overhead lamp-chandelier against the white tones of the room. And the rustic floor and rustic unpainted wood frames on the hutch are a nice touch.
And proof that you can turn the smallest space into a workable office area, we have this gem from
I've been wanting to blog about this one for a month now.
And can you believe that this is what the closet used to look like?
See, no space is too small or too unusual to turn into some functional office space!
Do you feel inspired to create a little nook with some desk space? If so, tell me about it, I'd love to hear!
My first step is going to be getting my hands on a big ole' frame, (garage sale!) some cork board, maybe some linen fabric, and make a big inspiration board. I really like to be able to visualize things as I go along, and so hiding things in desk drawers isn't quite my thing. Ok that, and I'm just naturally a mess-maker. It takes all kinds, right! My point is... even something like an inspiration board on your wall can help you achieve what you might count on a desk to do, so don't be afraid to think outside the box!
Happy room-polishing! Tonight I'm going to go to a class on Color Theory. I'm learning so much! Can't wait to do a big post on color-choosing. It's a big challenge, right? But fun!
Thanks for stopping by!
images via Houzz.com, unless otherwise noted
