Home Office Update

Our mission this weekend was to fix our office area. We repainted the room back in March or April, sometime last spring. It's a soft sage-y green with a bit of grey in it to match the living room. The problem wasn't the walls, though, it was the furniture and overall layout of the room.

This room has exactly one wall of any uninterrupted length. So that's were we put our desks. But it looked like a mess.

Admittedly, the chair on the ground is part of a refinishing project of mine, and it will have legs again, soon. But the desks were two different designs, neither of which really worked. Neither desk had any drawers, so we had to stick everything in plastic drawer units that will never look pretty. It worked, but it also didn't work - it was ugly and everything was cramped and there really wasn't any desk space to work in. How a desk can lack work space and drawers and still be a desk and not just a table is beyond me.

I will add that one member of our family liked the desks--Jill love the two little caves she could crawl into, right where our desks chairs would go. She spent a lot of her time asleep under there:

So, we went were all young people with a little money, a willingness to do a little work, and a hunger for Swedish meatballs go - IKEA. We picked out stuff from the AMON desk collection - for $51 we could get a desk top 116 inches long. One long, uninterrupted work surface. And then for lots more money we could get some of those desperately needed drawers.

We ate a quick lunch at IKEA and then brought our purchases home.

We did the drawers first.

Jill immediately went to her old spot on the carpet once we moved the old desks away.

Then we put the legs on the tables and set the desks up.

The last phase was putting together the shelves with drawers to go above.

Everything's up and in place now.

Maybe 5 hours of work, with a little more time spent moving the old things to their new places, but we're very happy with the result. Thanks, IKEA!