Office: Before & Progress

It’s finally time to show you our office! I’ve never shown it before on the blog because it is a hot mess! But, it’s the room we’ve been working on lately, so I’m giving you a glimpse inside.

The office is actually a mother-in-law suite over our detached garage. It was mainly a catch all room until right before Little Girlie was born. As we were preparing for Little Girlie, we moved our guest bed out of our third bedroom to convert the bedroom into a nursery. We then fixed up the office to rent out to a friend for a few months (Miss you, Nicole!!).

I say “fixed up” in the loosest way possible. We gave it a fresh coat of paint, replaced the warped and ripped vinyl roller shades with blinds, and purchased a washer, dryer, and mini fridge to make the apartment fully functional. It was still completely undecorated and a catch all for furniture we didn’t need or have room for in the house anymore.

Ready to see? Oh goodness, after my organizational flops post, I can’t believe I’m about to post these pictures on the Internet! Excuse the quality of these first pictures. They were phone pictures I snapped to send to Nicole when she was searching for an apartment.

When you first open the door, you see the kitchen area. For a one room in-law suite, it does have a pretty good kitchen. I love all the windows!

The office seems to have no insulation at all because it is freezing over here in the winter and hot in the summer. We purchased a big shag rug to help the temperature out over here and so far it has worked surprisingly well! It’s such a comfy rug! The end table is on it’s way to the thrift store. It used to live in our living room. I thought about giving it a makeover for the office, but the shape and style just doesn’t jive with the futon at all, so out it goes!

The last big thing we need to do before we can get to the fun decor stuff is build a desk. Jeremy wants an L-shaped desk with built in storage for the printer and some books. He slid our existing desk and little bookshelf together to create a makeshift L-shaped desk for now. Yes, Jeremy is crazy. This is what I’m working with, people! Haha! And, yes, his chair is on cardboard. The chair was marking up the floor, so Jeremy threw down some cardboard to protect the floor until we could get a chair pad. A year later…he’s still on that blasted cardboard. Ahhhhh!

I have lots of decor ideas swirling around my brain! I’ve been letting Jeremy call the decor shots over here since it is his office, after all. 😉 I’ll be back next week to show you some of my decor ideas!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

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