Welcome to Part 10 of our home tour, The Office and Craft Room! {AKA, “My Hiding Place”} If you’re just joining me, feel free to go back to Part 1 of the home tour and catch up! For the rest of you: Let’s roll on… Welcome to my office! Come on in… I’ll let you look around a while, and then I’ll break down the bits and pieces and let you know where I got everything!
My Office & Craft Room
{Why can’t they make “white” printers? Or heck, maybe they do, and I just don’t know it. Boy that black printer really sticks out like sore thumb huh? Oh well, it’s mandatory to print out the “free printables,” that I create for you all!} 😉
Alrighty! So below I show you the favorite part about my craft table. I’m sure you all have seen this idea floating around on Pinterest? You take two bookshelves and get a table top and lay across the top. {Not as easy as it sounds, folks.} You’ll want to make sure you measurements “measure,” up. Try to get the table top width, the same width as your bookshelves, so you don’t have major over or under lapping. I purchased my bookshelves off of Walmart.com, and the Linnmon Table Top, from IKEA. {That’s my oldest little guys artwork on the bottom shelf.} 😉
I fell in LOVE with this gold mirror when it was on CLEARANCE, yes CLEARANCE, at Home Goods!
With perfect timing, I had decided on a color scheme for my office, at the same time the “Oh Joy,” line came out at Target! Her products matched EXACTLY what I was looking for, and I couldn’t have been more happy. So what’s my color scheme you may ask? Coral, turquoise and gold. I’m OBSESSED with this color pattern.
I took a risk on this next purchase. I bought this chair on Amazon, WITHOUT SITTING IN IT! I’m rebellious I tell ya. Good news… it’s comfy! {and cute}.
{UPDATE} I’ve had a few ask me deets on the chair because they are wanting one too. I checked on Amazon and I can’t find it anymore, BUT GOOD NEWS… I found one similar, and it’s cheaper than what I paid for mine! I’m totally jealous: Similar Office Chair
The pillow came from Home Goods {my FAVE-O-RITE place to buy pillows}!
Moving over to the desk… it looks bare without my laptop, but it’s black and it didn’t match for the photo-shoot. 😉 I bought my desk from IKEA a couple of years ago, and it’s called the “MICKE” desk. I LOVE IT. It’s the perfect size, and it’s well made I believe! It’s been through 5 moves by golly. 🙂
As you all know, the Target dollar bin sucks me in every time. Well… excuse me, but when I find cute little pails that match my office décor, I’m not passin’ ’em up. The frame was on clearance at Target, and that’s my gorgeous hubby holding our second bundle of joy the day he was born. ♥
The turquoise and gold mirror was also on clearance at Target! Woot woot! I love my chevron… the pen/pencil holder came from the dollar isle!
I LUUUUV my big chevron clip! I found this at Home Goods, and hope I never have paperwork pile up so high that I’ll need to actually use it. I prefer to just look at it. 🙂
I keep all of my photo goodies in this corner. You can see my tripod, but my backdrops & reflectors are hiding. 🙂
Ahhhh! More of the “Oh Joy,” line at Target! I love this reusable bag. Although I really didn’t have a need for a reusable bag in my office, I had to have it in there. It just went so perfectly with the color scheme. 🙂
So I picked up my corkboard at a yard sale this past summer. Yep! I’m a yard sale gal. I just don’t go often because when I have 2 babies that like to get out of the stroller and play with every single toy that they see, it really takes away from my browsing time. 🙂 My “J” plaque came from Hobby Lobby. Sadly enough, my babysitter saw it when she was shopping there one day and sent me a text, because she knew I’d love it. Needless to say, I went shopping at Hobby Lobby that day through texting, all while sitting in my office chair. THAT my friends, is the way to do it. 😉
Here’s my “Command Center,” I like to call it. I’m able to hang/write just about anything up here! I’m all for being green and saving the planet, but by golly I still like to see and have paper. You just don’t see any up because I wanted it to be nice & clean for the photo.
Hee hee… my little couch was also part of the Hobby Lobby shopping trip from my office chair. The babysitter knew I’d love this too. And YUM… do you buy Bath and Body Works candles? Holy moly… they smell good. I think they’re my all time favorite candle. See my little guy to the left? I have a row of photos above my craft table. I ADORE staring at my precious babies while I work. See more of the photos below:
Oh yes… see the 2nd photo from the right? That’s me and my stud muffin of a husband. We were 14 in this photo, and we had been dating about 2 weeks. ♥
Home Goods came to my rescue again! I found this mirror there, in the beginning stages of office planning. I had no idea what colors I was using, so I figured “white,” would be a good start. It worked!
Ooooohhhh the closet. How I luuuuuv the closet. I needed a place where I could store my craft supplies, office supplies, and my kiddos crafty things. {Because I’m not about to put finger paint, play dough and glue in their playroom where they can reach it.} There’s a mix of IKEA, Target, and The Container Store, in this little organized piece of Heaven. PU-LEESE tell me that you’ve been or shopped online at The Container Store? No? Do it… like now… you’ll die with giddiness of how organized you can be: The Container Store
I will say that I haven’t had time to put labels on everything like I want to, and eventually will. In all seriousness… my office was clean, and I figured I’d better snap some photos before a little person came in and wrecked it. So… I’ll take photos on another day when I get everything labeled, and show you all how I did it. The wire basket? Came from The Container Store. This is the “ALEX” drawer unit from IKEA. I keep construction paper, notebooks, folders, etc. in this drawer system.
This Algot storage unit came from IKEA, and it holds my kiddos art & craft supplies. It’s easy for them to get in to, if I let them. 🙂 I found the coral “hat” box at where else, Home Goods.
Storage boxes can be pretty right? At least The Container Store thinks so! I believe I work more efficiently if I’m surrounded by pretty things… so these pretty storage boxes were a must.
I try, I really TRY to be organized. So when I get mail in, and I don’t have time to file it away, I wanted a place where I could “drop” it in a safe place until I found time. This wire basket from The Container Store, is perfect for that.
I found MORE pretty storage boxes at The Container Store! You can NEVER have too many.
This is the same wire basket that I told you about above. I keep all my “mail” related items in this, so I can easily grab a stamp, envelope, etc. and be out the door if need be.
So I’m a crazy person. I’ll admit it. I have saved TONS of scrap paper over the years, in case I needed it. Now, my kids have an endless supply of paper for “art” time, and I keep it in the aqua magazine files that I picked up from Target, so it’s not just sitting out, looking all ugly-like. I can’t remember exactly where I got the gray box underneath. I WANT to say Home Goods… but I wouldn’t bet any money on that. It’s all a blur to me at this point!
The clear drawer units below are so fantabulously handy. Know what’s cool? The Container Store also has FREE downloadable labels that you can insert in them. Me… I haven’t gotten around to doing it yet, BUT I WILL!
Oh my little chevron file. Another great find in the Target Dollar Isle. The gray storage box? The Container Store! See… I told you they were awesome. They even have TONS of colors to choose from.
See the box in the middle? That’s a letter box, and I keep labels in this.
The letter box on the bottom, is translucent, and I will put something in there eventually. More than likely something that I’ll want to kind of see what it is, since it’s almost “see-through.”
That’s it! I’m so glad that you were able to stop by and see the office & craft room. It won’t always be this clean and organized, but at least I have proof that it once was! 😉 Stay tuned for the next room on the tour. What shall it be? Living area, guest bedroom, toddler boy bedroom, dining room? Hmm… probably the one that’s the cleanest when I get my camera back out. 😉
To see more rooms on the tour:
Part 1: The Exterior
Part 2: The Master Bedroom
Part 3: The Master Bath
Part 4: The Kitchen
Part 5: The Playroom
Part 6: The Guest Bath
Part 7: The Pantry
Part 8: The Patio/Deck
Part 9: The Nursery
Part 10: *Old* The Office/Craft Room
Part 11: Big Boy Room
Part 12: The NEW Nursery
Part 13: The Dining Room/Foyer
Part 14: The Guest Bedroom
Part 15: The Living Room
Part 16: New Office Reveal
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