~Office Furniture and Happy Long Weekend!!!~

Happy Long Weekend to you all!!!

What are your plans???
Ours:
More Home Rennovations
BBQ with friends
Out to a show
Last kayaking adventure this year
Happy Hours (always!)
Crafting
Baking
Etc. Etc. Etc. :-)

 Now onto my conundrum:

Awww my office is coming togather, BUT taking forever!

It's unfortunate everything I want costs $$moolah$$

We are done with all the rennovating (of my craft room at least), now I just need to fill it up with fun things!

If you missed my blog post of inspiration for my office, chk it out here

So this weekend we are off to find an armoire and a desk to get this room rolling!

Desk:

~black or white~

 I don't know yet!

Either would go . . . hmmm

Ok to set the stage:

We have asian bamboo dark hardwood floors

A light yellow/tan faux-linen painting  job

A zebra rug (black white)

White crown molding and trim

Black hardware (door knob and closet knobs)

Overall look inspiration/colors:

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Yellow/Zebra/White/Black

I want:

Bradshaw Kirchofer Chopin Writing Desk from Layla Grace

BUT it's a whopping $1,071.00!!! Yeah prob not:-)

~OR~

Source . . . also same store same-ish price!

Desks that are still cute but more my budget:

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Pottery Barn

Pottery Barn

Crate and Barrel- comes in black or white $250

Hmmm we shall see.  Why oh why do I have a budget?! Ha ha

What do you guys think:

Black or white desk?

Small simple writers desk or larger executive desk?

Suggestions of where to shop?

~As always, enjoy your lovely weekend dears!~

~Office Progress~

Hello all my lovelies!!!

Hope you had a fabulous weekend:-)

We've been going non-stop on the yard and house this weekend, phew soooo tired!

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I wanted to share a few fun things:

***I ordered my first few decor items!!!***

Gotta love giveaways, seriously!!!

I won 2 csn.com giveaways, $40 and a $50 one within a week of each other

(see- you too can be a winner! I have a giveaway starting Wed)

What better room to use it for than to help decorate my new office space?!

Sooooo excited! So for this:

Capel Pool and Patio Zebra Black / White Indoor / Outdoor Rug

and this:

Lazy Susan Sunny Frit Bottle in Yellow

I paid ten dollars out of pocket, and free shipping!!!

Sooooo excited:-)

Also, today I painted my first 2 coats of base color,

then off to do my "faux painting" with my broom!

Woot woot.

Should look something like this:

(how to paint faux linen texture DIY here)

but more yellow and more brush strokes,

kinda like this from Ralph Lauren paint:

~Still need~

Cute Writing Desk

Zebra chair

Storage with baskets, etc for my Memory Bean Designs items, etc.

Wall Organizing System

and lots of other fun things:-)

~Just made~

a few hooks for my Etsy shop using my office as inspiration

Have you been doing any home decor project lately?!

I'd love to hear about colors and fun decor ideas:-)

 ***Or if you could re-do and furnish any room in your house, what would you do???***

~My Home Decor Project Inspiration~

Dear lovelies:

A few posts ago I mentioned that we just installed Asian-Bamboo Hardwood floors in my new

 Office/Craft Room!!!

Excited much?! Yes!!!

So we are just waiting on one more box of wood to finish our floors, then on to

**Paint***

and trim and crown moulding!

So before I decide on paint I needed

some inspiration . . .

and found more than enough!

Notice any themes? . . .

Love the wall paper and colors!

Yellow and Grey is so hot right now . . . here it looks so pleasant together:-)

One must: a zebra print bench, stool, chaise lounge or chair

Great organization ideas!

See?! Yellow and Zebra make me happy

Want this on my YELLOW wall :-)

Since our floors are dark, I will balance it out with white desk and accents, as well as splashes of yellow throughout

White with soft yellow walls? Not sure what shade to paint!

Lovin the white desk with cute chair:-)

What a fab ottoman!!!

My colors! And love the built in book shelves!!!

I think I will buy a chair and DIY it, with fun zebra fabric and studs:-)

I love the picture frames and cute lil desk

FAB stool and fun curtains

(all photos from Google)

So my must-haves:

*Yellow= happiness*

*Faux painting (prob bristle brush strokes)*

*White big desk with fun accessories*

*Zebra chair*

*TV for chick flicks while creating for inspiration*

*Inspiration Board Space- maybe a big fun cork board or framed board*

*Crown Moulding*

*Light rug: maybe white or lighter yellow hues?*

Wants:

*Fireplace*

*Screen (the folding kind to section off room)*

*Lots of candles*

*Wallpaper or Vinyl Decals on one accent wall*

Sounds quite busy, but we'll see how it turns out!

Up until this point I've had my craft supplies and office papers/files all over the house, so excited to have my own room!

Until we have kids at least;-)

What color scheme do you have going on in your favorite room?

~OR~

If you had free reign to decorate any room, what colors would you choose?

P.S. Blog News:

***Giveaway***

Enter here to win either

or

co-hosted by Byrdie Graphics and Memory Bean Designs

Lots of entry opportunities!

***Button***

Thank you all for voting and helping me choose a blog button!!!

~By far #5 won~

so now go grab it and add it to your blog. 

Come back and let me know and I'll grab yours, how exciting right?!

***Award***

Just received an award from http://idontshineifyoudontshine.blogspot.com/

Will post tomorrow, thanks Chloe!!!

Also will post weekend photo craziness