Our Office

Welcome to my office, the ceilings are 10 feet tall in here so I tried to draw your eye upward to see how I utilize all of the empty space that used to be there.

Love these frames, paid $3for all of them!
Here are my pretty window mistreatments, no sewing here! (Remember the fringe I bought for a few dollars at the great garage sale, this is where it ended up, I had just the right amount for both windows, and they puddle on the ground!)

These are definately not the best pictures but, well, you get the picture.
Love this new huge frame! I have had the topiaries since we moved into the new nest 8 years ago, I still see them at Homegoods, timeless! The red toile plates were a $3 Marshall's find. This display is actually quite large, the frame is at least 3 feet long!

Ahhh, my cozy chair! All of the pillows were purchased at my sister's garage sale last year!
This was given to me by my Grandmother years ago, it is a McCoy and was in her family. It is perched high on my bookshelf away from little hands.

My beloved photo albums, full of our life stories.

I have been slacking on this blog big time and I apologize. We have been so busy, if you read my other blog you would already know that :). So I decided to just take a few snapshots of our home office today to share with you all. We painted this room a few years ago, I had an idea in my head and hoped that my hubby could pull it off. I wanted the room to look like I had spent a fortune on custom molding/paneling. I cheated and painted the bottom 3/4 white and the top a rich dark taupe. He figured out a way to buy cheap pine strips of wood and we painted them white as well, a few cuts and wa-la, faux moldings. He also built a nice shelf all around the room so that I could display pictures (used to have pictures up there) or whatever I chose to do. I love how it turned out and we get many compliments on this room, probably because it is the first thing you see when you enter our nest. This furniture used to be in our basement but it was not convenient at all to run down there every time we needed to use the computer. So my hubs and another big strong man moved it upstairs to its new location and I fell in love again with this room. We also have a big stuffed chair and ottoman that is the most comfortable reading spot. This furniture was originally in our upstairs extra bedroom before a little Chinese darling entered our life and that room needed to become a nursery. I made the window mistreatments a few months ago and yes, the fringe is hot glued to the edges and there was no sewing involved at all! Yippee! I also have a bookshelf in there that holds our family photo albums. I love these albums from Kohls, they can hold some serious pictures let me tell you and they all match, it gives a more pleasing appearance. I have thousands of pictures in them. My newest addition to the room are the cool vintage frames. I have collected them from garage sales and was given a few also. Literally, I have paid around $12 for the all of them. My large frame I just bought from my neighbor's yard sale a few weeks ago. It had a huge picture of Jesus in it, I can't throw out a picture of Jesus so I just gently removed it from this frame and put it in a safe place. This frame is huge and it was $10. I am in love with the look of Nell Hill so I tried to achieve that look in this room with the gold accents, red toile, brown florals and rich colors. The pretty clock on the desk was Mark's service award from his department after being there for 15 years, it chimes and everything, Myah loves to remind me that my clock is going off. I have a few of my favorite decorating books at hand, some personalized stationary in a caddy, my crazy calendar, my favorite magazines and a few good books all close by in this room so I can stay organized and on top of things. This was once an unused room and now it is my favorite spot to spend a few hours. This is also the room that I sneak off to when I am on the phone, away from the hustle and bustle of the rest of the nest! I hope you enjoyed this litte tour of my office, I'd love to see yours!