My Home Office is Finally DONE!

I did a feature home office makeover for the One Room Challenge last Fall, but in truth, the room wasn’t completely finished at the end of the 6 week challenge period. My budget didn’t allow for the new carpeting, task lighting and blinds that would complete the room.

In case you didn’t see my home office makeover, this is the before (when it was Hubby’s space):

Terrible, unusable, an eyesore and a constant source of stress for me because it is also the first room you see as you come in the door.

My takeover/makeover included ripping out the window seat, moving all the furniture, bringing some upcycled furniture in and some decorating….

but it was still a bit scruffy.

Those dark blinds were heavy and eye-catching (in a bad way) and the carpet was 13 years old and showing stains, wear and tear and the underpad was quite flat.

I had a birthday in February and Hubby bought me this gorgeous lamp for task lighting.

Then last month I finally had new carpeting and underpad installed!

It’s an off-white with a soft trellis pattern in it. I was a bit nervous about off-white in a house with 3 pets, 2 kids and a husband that clearly don’t care that this is “Mommy’s space”, but so far it’s remained off-white (knock on wood). I didn’t realize just how much of a difference a good underpad makes, nor how useless the old one was.

But I digress. This carpet is so soft and squishy underfoot!