Here are a few inspiration pictures I found from the blog House of Turquoise:
This one is my favorite! Love how the combo works in this one.
Yes, I realize this is a bathroom, but the colors are still great.
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Showing posts with label computer room. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Aqua and Red
Whoo, back to decorating! As much as I love food, it's refreshing to post about something decor-related. So, I decided I would take the time to share my love of the color combination of aqua and red paired with a clean, crisp white. It's my inspiration for our computer room when I finally get back around to it.
Here are a few inspiration pictures I found from the blog House of Turquoise:
This one is my favorite! Love how the combo works in this one.
Yes, I realize this is a bathroom, but the colors are still great.
Here are a few inspiration pictures I found from the blog House of Turquoise:
This one is my favorite! Love how the combo works in this one.Yes, I realize this is a bathroom, but the colors are still great.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
iStock art
I am really inspired to do a DIY art project for the computer room. I'd love to hang a series of three abstract canvases above the loveseat. I can vaguely picture what I want to do, but wasn't even sure where to begin to look for inspiration. I'm not sure why, but I turned to iStockphoto.com since I end up using them a lot for design work. And sure enough, they had a few that caught my eye.
I like the yellow in this one, it's a good pop of color, but I think there is too much going on.
I like the texture here. And something like this has good potential as part of a 3-set.
This one is my favorite! Love the color and texture and simplicity!
And then I found some drool-worthy real ones!
These are all from Linda Kent Paintings and she seriously has some awesome stuff on there. Those would look a-maz-ing as a series of 3. I wish! But seriously, I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty and playing with color and texture and canvas. It'll be fun!
I like the yellow in this one, it's a good pop of color, but I think there is too much going on.
I like the texture here. And something like this has good potential as part of a 3-set.
This one is my favorite! Love the color and texture and simplicity!
These are all from Linda Kent Paintings and she seriously has some awesome stuff on there. Those would look a-maz-ing as a series of 3. I wish! But seriously, I'm looking forward to getting my hands dirty and playing with color and texture and canvas. It'll be fun!
Office Progress
We got a desk!
Here was the old one we had in the room:
I don't have a true before picture of it in use (this one is from our craigslist listing), but here it is. This desk was huge, and I mean HUGE. At about 6' long, 3' deep and 5' tall (seriously, it took up about as much floor space as a twin bed), it had tons of storage space, but it just took up too much space in the room we wanted to be more multipurpose.
And we truly didn't need all that space anymore. In the past few years, we both replaced our desktop computers with laptops. (And plan to remain "laptop people" in the future) And during my Fresh Start week, we reduced the amount of boxes of "stuff" in the desk from six to two.
So we were looking for something compact, yet still had some storage space and under $100. We searched Ikea, furniture stores, and scoured craigslist, but we were mostly finding large executive style set-ups that were way more than we wanted to spend or had room for. We found a few smaller, more budget-friendly options, but they were mostly just a table with a small drawer. We still needed some space!
And then we were in the furniture section of Staples and found this for only $60. It's compact, fits perfectly in the room and still has a good amount of storage. No, it's not gorgeous, nor does it go with my aqua, red, brown, and white I have going on in there, but it gets the job done. It's also small enough to fit in a nook in the media room should that room ever hypothetically need to be turned into a nursey. Hypothetically.
Well, here it is:
I realized this photo doesn't show the placement in the room at all, but it is in the corner to the left of the door. We're planning on putting a shelf above the wall adjacent to the door as well, so we have just a bit more room.
*Disclaimer- this is totally a BEFORE picture! It will definitely look a lot better in the near future!
Here was the old one we had in the room:
I don't have a true before picture of it in use (this one is from our craigslist listing), but here it is. This desk was huge, and I mean HUGE. At about 6' long, 3' deep and 5' tall (seriously, it took up about as much floor space as a twin bed), it had tons of storage space, but it just took up too much space in the room we wanted to be more multipurpose.
And we truly didn't need all that space anymore. In the past few years, we both replaced our desktop computers with laptops. (And plan to remain "laptop people" in the future) And during my Fresh Start week, we reduced the amount of boxes of "stuff" in the desk from six to two.
So we were looking for something compact, yet still had some storage space and under $100. We searched Ikea, furniture stores, and scoured craigslist, but we were mostly finding large executive style set-ups that were way more than we wanted to spend or had room for. We found a few smaller, more budget-friendly options, but they were mostly just a table with a small drawer. We still needed some space!
And then we were in the furniture section of Staples and found this for only $60. It's compact, fits perfectly in the room and still has a good amount of storage. No, it's not gorgeous, nor does it go with my aqua, red, brown, and white I have going on in there, but it gets the job done. It's also small enough to fit in a nook in the media room should that room ever hypothetically need to be turned into a nursey. Hypothetically.
Well, here it is:
I realized this photo doesn't show the placement in the room at all, but it is in the corner to the left of the door. We're planning on putting a shelf above the wall adjacent to the door as well, so we have just a bit more room.
*Disclaimer- this is totally a BEFORE picture! It will definitely look a lot better in the near future!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Computer Room- A Before and After
Before:
it was two different shades of yellow- one very bright yellow-yellow and one an orangey yellow and a wallpaper border in between.
We cleared the junk out of there (although it is now in the guest room until we get some storage), disassembled the giant desk that was in there, and took down the wallpaper border. After hearing horror stories about removing wallpaper, I was afraid this was going to be a long, tedious, difficult process. I was lucky, however, that it went very quickly and was very easy to remove.
We painted the walls a pale robin's egg blue. The plan is to use browns, a crisp white, and red accents as the other colors in the room. We are probably going to paint the end table and TV stand white and we are looking for a small and compact desk for our printers.
After: (for now)
it was two different shades of yellow- one very bright yellow-yellow and one an orangey yellow and a wallpaper border in between.
We cleared the junk out of there (although it is now in the guest room until we get some storage), disassembled the giant desk that was in there, and took down the wallpaper border. After hearing horror stories about removing wallpaper, I was afraid this was going to be a long, tedious, difficult process. I was lucky, however, that it went very quickly and was very easy to remove.
We painted the walls a pale robin's egg blue. The plan is to use browns, a crisp white, and red accents as the other colors in the room. We are probably going to paint the end table and TV stand white and we are looking for a small and compact desk for our printers.
After: (for now)
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