When we moved into this new home last year, I claimed the loft as the “Girl Cave” and set it up as my office too. I wanted this to be my “escape” place to read and watch a special tv program, but I also wanted it to be where I had my office. Our last home didn’t have a designated space for my office, so I just used the buffet server in the breakfast area as my desk. That functioned, but really wasn’t the best. I needed a place to spread out some papers, open up my day planner and still have access to all the necessary tools needed in every office and leave it all spread out if I needed to. Having to pick up everything several times a day wasn’t ideal in the old house.
Here in the loft I chose to use a gateleg table that I had and a small bookcase as my workspace. Now some of you may think that isn’t really sufficient, but it is. This is all the room I need and I can just get up and walk away anytime without having to put anything away that I am currently working on.
As you can see, the table is large enough to hold everything I need and room to open up folders when I need to. I have the house phone, cell phone, cup (currently holding ice coffee), day planner and some fun accessories to camouflage the back of the computer screen.
This was my desk space in the old house. I loved being able to see out the window, but not being able to put my legs under it was not very comfortable.
My new office space is so much more comfortable. It sits next to a small settee and leather chair — -I also really like my DIY reupholstered office chair. You can see how I did that here.
and there is a huge entertainment center across from the settee that has tons of storage for all my office supplies and also has two fun bookcases that I love to decorate, plus the tv behind the doors.
On the wall behind the gateleg table is a small bookcase that holds all my day to day things that I use. Inside the polka-dot lidded box are all of my charger wires for the phone and ipad. This bookcase also holds scissors, pens, fun sticky notes, stappler, paper clips, calculator and tape measure, plus more note paper and pads.
A fun brass lamp, mini calendar, clock and bird tape dispenser are on top
This space has turned out to be one of my favorite places in the entire house. I spend quite a bit of time in here.
How about you, do you have an office space that works over time for you too?
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