Office Swap

This past weekend set my makeover-loving heart aflutter when we switched several rooms in our home.  Below is the new office.  It is one of the most-loved and frequently used rooms in our house.  The new set-up makes me a bit gitty.

The first three photos are panoramic "before" shots.  I wanted to give you somewhat of a sense of how the room was laid out.  Please also note that I never got around to decorating this room.  I decorated it with a bunch of cast-off accessories and hand me downs mixed in with some "on purpose" pieces.  Since this is a free makeover though, you will be seeing most of this again (but upstairs).

Can you spot Merlin's photo bomb?  He was keeping an eye on me and that pesky camera.

This camera setting makes the room look pretty small.  Those windows are actually really big.

Once again .. the scene is skewed.  That's a queen bed and a 5-foot dresser.

The following shots are just to more clearly see the things in the room.

Not a single piece of bedding matches. haha. Yay for guest room doors that you can close ;)

That dresser was a hand-me-down to fill the space.  It's not our style (and no longer necessary) so it has since been donated to a local thrift store.  C'est la vie.

This is a gallery wall Mark made.  The theme is "Welcome to Our Home".  It is a series of macro shots of our house.  I.LOVE.IT.  It will be relocated.

And now for the afters.  Like I said, all this stuff we had within the three rooms.  This room is not even close to being done.  I just set everything up to make it functional.  This now serves as the office/future kids playroom/second den.  These pictures will soon become the "befores".

This was the wall with the bed.

Sorry for the bad lighting.  I didn't want to wait until night to shoot so we will just have to deal with the blue tinge.

Once again .. daylight + me refusing to learn how to properly use the camera settings = bad picture quality.

This couch is another hand-me-down from the grandmother.  It's super comfortable but covered in pink flowers.  I don't think the ratty red slipcover will stay but it works for now.

R.O.Y.G.B.I.V anyone?  I heart me some color-coding.

That little TV has been around for years.  It works great and always fits in the tiniest spaces which I love.  The black shelves are actually the two nightstands from the old room.  Mark made them and they were hung on the wall.  When I was rearranging I realized the TV fit perfectly inside one of them.  Insta-mini-entertainment-center :)

Merlin .. the couch opportunist. <3