Palace Project Part 3: The Office

I'm also redoing my office this summer. Currently, my office is a huge mess. My brother actually forgot that I had an office, until he realized, "Oh, it's the room where the door is always closed." Yeah, kid...there's a reason for that.

My office currently looks like 7 tornadoes hit it simultaneously. There are two bookshelves and a desk, but I have so many binders and books and papers that there are boxes and boxes of more stuff just sitting on the floor. It's pretty embarrassing - hence the door being perpetually closed. However, I have a coworker who wisely said that when she redecorated, she took pictures every so often to chart her progress. So in the spirit of improvement, I'll post some here.

Rather than starting with my before picture, I'll start with my inspiration rooms. Here are some ideas for what I want the space to look like:

I'm going for fun, vibrant colors. My office is currently nonfunctional because the space is both too disorganized and too boring for me to really spend any productive time in there. But with these happy colors, I'll be ecstatic to sit in there and read and work.

I was debating back and forth about pink vs. orange walls (pink is my favorite color for sure but orange may be a more tolerable color to paint an entire room with). I think I've settled on orange with white furniture and pink accents.

And now, without further ado (yikes), my first progress pictures.

Here's my awful start:

And believe it or not, this is not the worst of it. Before I took this picture, there was actually a huge pile of empty boxes in the corner between the two bookshelves. (Before you congratulate me for cleaning it up, I'll admit that that pile has moved itself to the kitchen. But hey, progress, right?)

I'll keep posting pictures as the room changes.

:)