Last week I made a lot of progress on my home office. I'm going to show you some really ugly before photos, so brace yourself. Lately I've been using the office as a storage room and place to store all the "stuff" I've accumulated for various projects.
Yea, it's bad.
I spent a few hours clearing everything out of there. Lots of little trips to a spare bedroom next-door. I knew I wanted to repaint the room a lighter/brighter color. The previous homeowners painted the walls this beige color, and it's probably the most neutral color they used in the whole house, but, I wanted a change.
My first thought was to go with a cream or light beige and I tested a few samples, but none of them blew my socks off. I've heard amazing things about BM's Revere Pewter so I bought a sample of that to try. It's the color swatch on the left in the photo below. In this room, it just read too blue and too dark and not greige enough.
Rather than make another trip to the hardware store, I decided to take a trip two stories down to my basement (AKA paint storage room). I had almost a full gallon of BM's Light Pewter that I used in my living room. On a whim, I painted a couple of swatches of it in the office and I love it! It looks better in the office than it does in the living room! It's usually a lot brighter in here, but blame Sandy's dark skies for this photo.
Notice that new addition on the right? That's an Ikea Expedit in high-gloss white. Luv. It's so shiny and pretty that I bought two.
That spot in the middle is reserved for my new Spotlight White Desk from Crate & Barrel. I won the design lottery when I measured and realized everything fits on that wall with only a couple of inches to spare.
{Image from here}
I can't wait to start adding pops of color to brighten up all this shiny white. Here's a reminder of my inspiration for this room.