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Below is how the office looked a couple of years ago; a yellow-beige mess of a room that was a catchall for junk and not very functional.
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Last year, I painted the room gray, organized the shelves and moved around some of the furniture. Those changes helped a lot, but it still didn't look and feel right. I would literally sit in here and stare, glass of wine in hand, just thinking and trying to find a solution for making the room "work" - and on a budget. The first and most annoying obstacle was a rat's nest of cords in the corner of the room that I needed to figure out how to hide. See that tangled mess in the corner below?
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![DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv8pgAzbeF-HNLzQkCqcVfpygMDA7XJy2PwPoxHfr1wnnjTBzweBBJVozO_BCcu6nHneKRIgKK3Zy4IP9smzzfYELRkWr6UwaKaHZjb33LVzKyFACD3smxl09LyU-e2FskWGizaOtcM6pm/s1600/office+update+2.png)
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![DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-zfpuhmdyCQEcAX5Or6uxu8mLQtV3IkBsaAoTVxcts05MSahh5PdFqrCK06WP6Rbe2hRhyYwRZJkLFIL6MrrFy9739xLxkcqNCudmE7mgYalvZO-Nh7BBbYompRBv2Ledq84LMHIOJyCA/s1600/office+update+1.png)
I swapped the MCM desk for my sewing desk (a nifty expandable number I found at an estate sale wayyy back in college) and re-located it under the window. The is in rough shape, but it's too neat to paint, so I think Jesse and I might try to rehab the veneer this winter.
![DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMjECaCHqaNX2mJIbGSzbbCFzmSIfGymIiR6JnkGmPWH4E-zijSdd2ZnBOCa5O24PxQY8wZ5jY9IV2lbT9608YXgplp67Zgkt8UZ7MGnMr67JNKX-FMS4aJFEceWUQ8JSl200rEenXoSUE/s1600/office+corner+2.png)
I'm estimating the cost for a complete guest bed set-up to be roughly eight hundred to a thousand dollars, so we are pushing that off for a few months in order to put our funds into the basement remodel. I was going to put this slipper chair in the corner, but it was awkward and didn't do a good job of hiding all the cables and cords in the corner. I've had the ottoman since college, it's original upholstery is dark purple velvet with swirls. Classy. I think I've recovered it about six times, but for this round I just threw one of our Turkish bath towels over it. I made a tutorial for the house / heart string art a few weeks ago that you can see here. There is also a tutorial for the Ferm Living inspired potato stamp pillow, here. I'm working on tutorials for the other two pillows and hope to have those up soon!
![DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office DIY Vintage Modern Eclectic Home Office](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyeQr6hIBtlUiMpXT7hHTHxRIjqbTi-Lfq62QlGZW_yzkDIEezvKVZD6CY-gEEz0A4MNitEo-476BfLNqhkD9xCY-V1J49vAgjJjDCT1DNGtx7xDNMCiJ7-JJR7khtgOJi_yY2siBSWfLY/s1600/office+corner.png)
Overall, I'd say the office / guest room is about two thirds finished. I would still like to get a bed but I'm totally fine with the bench for now. I just have a couple small projects left; curtains, a rug, maybe re-paint the tension pole lamp, and wire up a secondhand ceiling fixture I re-vamped. You know, little stuff...
Do you have rooms you've struggled with in terms of layout? How did you find a solution?
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