HI, friends, I’m back today with, let’s hear a drumroll please….an actual room reveal! Yep, it seems like forever coming, but I finally have one finished room to show you all. My office space has evolved once again over the last 10 years. If you’ve been reading my blog for a number of years, you saw me start my office in a small nook space in Birmingham, then a full fledged green office in my fixer upper house and now another office space here in the new house, using all the things I’ve had before.
I pulled things from other parts of the house that I wasn’t using elsewhere and it all came together quite nicely. It’s not really a huge WOW magazine worthy room. I hardly ever feel like I can pull off magazine worthy these days, with all the talent out there that I scroll through on a daily basis, I never feel like it’s ALL that, but it’s making a pretty room with what I have, so here you go. And I know that you all enjoy watching me use what I have. It’s not all about going out and buying all new, although it’s fun to add things here and there when you move in a new home. We have several holes to fill and I’ll be filling them in time!
I happen to think it’s pretty cute and feminine and it makes me happy to see all my things reinvented in a new way. I even got out the spray paint for a few things that I updated with new colors.
I had these black botanicals in my old office, 4 of them, but decided to only use 2 in here and I sprayed the frames with coral pink spray paint.
The wall color in here is Magnolia Home Paint in the color Emmie’s Room, a soft blue shade. It’s hard to photograph and actually is a bit less gray than it looks here. It’s a nice backdrop to my colors in the office. Thanks to Kilz and Magnolia Home Paint for supplying us with the interior paint for our house.
Here’s the view as you walk in the room. Desk facing the double windows so I can look at the pretty trees outside in our backyard. My black desk is the same one I’ve had for years, from Target. White desk chair I got years ago at Homegoods.
That pretty landscape print came from Minted (affiliate link) and I had it on my screened porch, but decided it would look great in here and I love it.
I had room for one pair of the drapes I had made for my den space a couple of years ago. I still love this floral material, it’s by Richloom and called Lucy Eden. I still see it online so I think it’s still available. With those bold flowers and birds, it’s such a happy fabric.
That console table was a find from a thriftstore, an old Bombay piece that I painted coral a few years ago to blend in with my chair. I pulled the coral shade from the curtains.
And that cute coral pink velvet chair and ottoman that I got from Ballards a few years ago looks really at home in my new office space. This chair was by the bookcase in my downstairs den in the old house, as was this black and white houndstooth rug.
I kept it pretty simple in here and wanted the room to breathe so didn’t add a lot of accessories. Here’s a good look at our wood floors from Shaw Floors too. These are called Pebble Hill in Warm Sunset and we absolutely love them in our upper level spaces. Such a warm color and texture.
These dogs were an estate sale find years ago and I love them in their black and white.
Aren’t they the cutest? Every room needs a little black and white.
I posted this bunny weather vane from Target on my Facebook page awhile back, saying that I just couldn’t get rid of it and wondered who still had one and got so many comments. Many of you still have this thing from years ago and it is still with me too. I love it on top of the bookcase. It’s from 2005 or 06.
That bookcase was a yardsale find in Birmingham that I’m still using. I paid $50 for it and it started off natural, I painted it black and then it ended up white. Adding the beadboard backing myself was the best thing I did to update it and it’s solid wood, so a nice sturdy piece.
The bookcase holds my decorating books and I spray painted a few baskets to better fit with my colors.
Baskets hold a lot of things out of sight, so this area is storage and trying to stay organized.
Ballard Designs shelves I have had for years now still look great over my console table, so up they went again. I love having them for display space.
I got a new wireless printer over on the console table.
I’m trying to keep this office space more organized and clutter free, so I’m keeping it simple.
I’ve had these 3 black tole trays for years now and couldn’t let them go, so decided it was time they came out again and with the florals in here, they look just right once again, adding some fun vintage details to the shelves.
A couple of family pictures and a few accessories round it out. The white framed oil painting was a gift from a sweet reader.
I hope you enjoyed a peek at my new office! I’m really loving it and it feels so nice to have the house coming together. We’re still working on other rooms, but I’ll be sharing those with you as we get things more finished around here. It’s really feeling like home now and we are so enjoying our new space and yard!
Some of you have been with me since my very first little office and it’s so nice to have you all along on this journey of ours!
Your office looks wonderful and is the epitome of happiness❤️
What a great space in which to work. I love your draperies and the tole trays look great!
I love the colors in your new office! The floral trays really pop in the space as well. I can’t wait to see your next room unveiling.
I love everything about this room!! It’s perfect in every way!
Your new office is lovely. I really like that you use what you have and don’t run out and buy the latest and greatest. Most of us can’t afford to change our decor and this gives me encouragement to follow my heart and use what I own and love. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, Phyllis, I’m so glad you enjoyed this. I can’t go out and buy all new stuff either, so it makes me happy to share my redesigned spaces with all of you.
Congrats on ur new office. It’s very prett.
Dear Rhoda,
I wish you documenting great memories in this office!
From sunny Athens, Greece
Sophia
Love how your office came together!
Dear Roda: I’m relatively new to your blog, but love your style and info. Thank you. What is the Blackpool and white box on the console in front of the window? I adore black and white.
HI, Jay, that black and white box is a tissue cover, it’s metal and striped.
What a pretty office space, Rhoda!! Glad you took your pretty drapes with you and I LOVE the idea of using what we have in a new space!! It all looks fresh and new and I’m sure you’ll enjoy spending time in there!!
Celia
Thank you, Celia, it’s fun to mix things up in new and fresh ways for this house.
Just WOW! Love this so much. I love pink so much so the pops of pink here make me so happy! The tole trays look fabulous. I am pretty sure this will be my favorite room in your house but time will tell. Oh, I love what you and a commenter said…that you shopped your house to decorate. That is what I believe in wholeheartedly and am so glad you are doing that.
Thank you, Melanie, I’m so glad you like it too! Yep, we have to repurpose and use things in all different ways when moving, that’s just the way it is. Since everything doesn’t fit the same way, we have to fill in some holes with new things, but that’s fun too. I still have so many accessories I won’t be able to use in this house and that’s fine too.
Very nice, Rhoda. I bet you feel so accomplished with everything you’ve been able to get checked off your list lately. Your office looks both utilitarian and comfortable. Love your accessories too, and that bookcase!
Thank you, Rita, yes it finally feels like we’re making lots of progress now. We have one more room downstairs to get finished and then I can really get that floor together. It’s been fun to get settled in and it’s really feeling like home now.
I loved that little office nook. It inspired me to start trying to decorate my rooms and I’m still trying. There’s so much in this one that I like. The drapes are so bright and cheerful. I love how you placed the desk in the center of the room, facing the window. I love your coral accents and how well your chair fits in. The room looks wonderful. I know you will enjoy working in it.
Thank you, Grammy, that little office nook kicked off my blog 10 years ago and I think I’ve grown and evolved so much since then. I love this new office so much too!
This is all so very pretty. That pink velvet chair is gorgeous!! So much color and black and white, I love this. Some rooms nowadays are so white I feel I might be in an operating room.
When you said you were trying to keep the clutter down, it made me laugh. We live in Seattle WA now, and looking to move to Louisiana. I look at homes here for ideas for selling and homes in LA to buy. Southern homes are often decorated to the gills, but much warmer looking. The styles and colors are definitely very different.
Thank you, Nancy, I do love color and this room will probably be the most colorful space in the whole house, but I definitely have to have some color. This house just seems to call for less “stuff” so that is what I’m working on paring down. When I get started on the downstairs adding all the accessories and artwork, I want to keep that more simple too. I’ve been way over the top with accessorizing in the past and maybe it’s age, I don’t know, but I just want less this time.
Love that you kept it simpler…and the pops of coral are awesome. It’s a wonderful room and I hope you love being in there even when “working”. 🙂
Rhoda, I love your new office space! It looks magazine worthy to me! I love the coral and black and white together. It’s so pretty. Love the dogs, the chair and ottoman and the toletrays. That hounds tooth rug really adds the final wow factor! It’s amazing what can be done using whatse already have.
Thank you, Sandy, I do love all of this mixed together too, fresh and fun!
Your new office definitely is magazine worthy! “Real” people can’t afford to start over every time, so we appreciate you showing fresh approaches with what you already own. Besides, I am sentimental about my possessions and wouldn’t want to get rid of them. You created such a happy room, I love the arrangement of toile trays and the pops of coral!
Thank you, Roxanne, I’m so glad you all like it too! Got to use what we have and reinvent them for the next phase. So glad I kept the tole trays!
Tole not toile! I must be feeling French this morning!
Oh, Rhoda, I just LOVE your new office! So happy and feminine, and it fits well, I think, with the classic vibe of your home! Beautiful!!
I LOOOOVE it all!! Especially that precious sign to the right of your window. Says it all, right?? Still crushing on your drapes. So happy you have this lovely space just for yourself. As always, well done!
Hey, Barbara, yes it does! That sign really was written for me and it goes well in this room.
Love the room! The pink chair is my favorite with the black & white rug.