Home Office

Great Storage Solution For The Home Office Closet Or, Really, Any Closet

August 6, 2024 by Susan 21 Comments

Remember this room? ;) Right now, this room almost seems like it's from another lifetime. I love this office, it's very different from the one I'm gradually putting together in the Dollhouse. This is probably a good time to explain a little better how I'm kind of envisioning this room looking if/when I finally move to the Dollhouse permanently. The Pottery Barn Bedford file cabinets/storage … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Closets & Pantries, DIY Decorating, DIY Organization and Storage Tagged With: Baskets for Kallax, Closet Lighting, Expedit, Home Office, Kallax, Motion Activated Lighting, Motion Sensor Lighting, Storage Solutions

Beautiful Updates For The Dollhouse Office & The Desk Is Finally Here!

July 26, 2024 by Susan 56 Comments

Happy Friday! Hope your week has been a great one! I've gotten a tremendous amount accomplished here in the Dollhouse this week, including in my office. I will be adding some more items this weekend, so will share even more updates for Metamorphosis Monday, but I thought it would be fun to share where things are as of right now. If you've been following along the last couple of months, you'll probably … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Favorite Fashions & Home Goods, Gift Ideas & Awesome Finds, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Beautiful Wool Rug, Blue & White Ginger Jar Lamp, Decorating in Blue and White, Executive Desk, Feminine Desk, Home Office, Home Office Updates, Woman's Executive Desk

A New Addition for My Home Office

January 24, 2022 by Susan 33 Comments

Welcome to the 678th Metamorphosis Monday! There's a new addition here in my office. It may not be the most aesthetically pleasing piece that I've added to this room, but I'm definitely enjoying it. Recently, I was thinking how nice it would be if I had a smallish treadmill here in the office so when I was in the mood to watch a YouTube video or anything online, I could also be "out for a walk" at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Favorite Fashions & Home Goods, Gift Ideas & Awesome Finds, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Desk Treadmill, Exercise, Home Office, Metamorphosis Monday, Small Treadmill, Treadmill, Work-from-Home

How I Use 3 Monitors to Work and Play in My Home Office

June 14, 2021 by Susan 34 Comments

Welcome to the 646th Metamorphosis Monday, a blog party sharing fabulous Before and Afters! Over the years, my monitor/desktop setup has changed several times. I've been using two monitors for many years. When I'm traveling and working from my laptop, I really, really miss having two monitors. Many years ago when I had cable TV, I purchased a Smart TV to place above my monitors thinking it would give … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, DIY Organization and Storage, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: 3-Monitors, Computer Monitor Setup, Home Office, Multiple Monitors, Work-from-Home

Fun Updates for My Home Office: Some Additions and One Subtraction

August 3, 2020 by Susan 41 Comments

Welcome to the 601st Metamorphosis Monday! It's been ages since I shared some updates here in my home office. I put this room together many years ago, Over the years it hasn't changed a ton, but there have been some little updates and tweaks along the way. The furniture I chose for this room so many years ago was Pottery Barn's Bedford furniture. Bedford furniture was designed to mix and max to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Home Office, Pottery Barn Bedford Furniture

2 Before & Afters: How My Daughter-in-Love, Nancy, and I Work from Home

April 13, 2020 by Susan 27 Comments

Welcome to the 585th Metamorphosis Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend! I have an exciting, pretty "Before and After" to share today, actually a couple of Before and Afters! You may remember a while back I purchased this small desk to use when visiting my son, daughter-in-love and grandchildren. In the past, I always brought along my laptop. Combined with an exterior monitor, this set up worked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Favorite Fashions & Home Goods, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Best Desk, Desk Mat, Desk with Storage, Home Office, Modern Desk, White Desk, Work-from-Home

Sharing All My Favorites for a “Spoil-You-Quickly” Home Office

March 23, 2020 by Susan 35 Comments

Welcome to the 582nd Metamorphosis Monday! Whenever I visit my son, daughter-in-love and grandsons, I'm usually here for a few weeks. Initially, I worked from my small travel laptop at their dining room table during my visits, but one day it dawned on me that I could fit a smallish desk into a corner of the guest room. I purchased a large monitor thinking it would help take the place of the double … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Favorite Fashions & Home Goods Tagged With: Home Office, Home Office Chair, Home Office Desk, Home Office Furniture, Working from Home

An Ornery Weather Station

January 14, 2019 by Susan 40 Comments

Welcome to the 520th Metamorphosis Monday! Unfortunately, I'm still sick with some kind of virus. My throat is still really swollen. If I'm not better in the next day or two, I'm going for a strep test. I don't really have a Before and After to share since I spent much of yesterday (when I felt up to it) doing boring stuff like putting wreaths back into storage under the eaves in the upstairs family … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Home Office, Weather Station

From Broken to Better, This Project is Done! Well, at Least for Now.

September 22, 2018 by Susan 36 Comments

I'm considering this little project complete for now. When I last shared this room, one of the little Dept. 56 lit houses I had purchased on eBay had not arrived. There's a story about that--I'll share it toward the end of this post. For the picture below, I had the shutters in the office closed and all the lamps in the office turned off. I lit a couple of candles to help my camera capture the lit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Bookshelves Decor, Decorate Bookshelves, Dept. 56 Lit Houses, Home Office, Literary Classics Collection

A Closer Look at Where I Work and Play: My Home Office Space

March 7, 2018 by Susan 53 Comments

Today as I was dusting and tidying up the office, I realized it's been a long time since I shared any photos of this room. Not a lot has changed in here, but I thought it would be fun to post a little tour of this space where I spend so much of my time. Pssst: To view other rooms in my home, click on the category "Home Tours" at the top of the blog, then click "My Nest" where you'll find links to every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: My Nest, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Belleek Castle Lamp, Charging Station, Cottage Chair-side Chest, Cottage Office, Cottage Reading Chair, Decorating Library, Gift-Wrapping Station, Home Office, Ikea Expedit Storage, Pottery Barn Bedford Office Furniture, Puzzle Board, Reading Corner, Vintage Dress Form

A Music System So Hot, The Remote Caught Fire!

January 21, 2017 by Susan 50 Comments

Ha! That post title will make more sense in just a second. :) I've been a Bose fan ever since I purchased their Lifestyle® 12 surround sound system for my living room over twenty years ago. When something went wrong with the large acoustimass module after many years of use, Bose was still in business (unlike a lot of companies these days) and were happy to assist. They mailed me a very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Gift Ideas & Awesome Finds, My Nest, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Bluetooth System, Bose, Bose SoundTouch, Home Office, Music, Music Streaming System, Office/Study, SoundTouch, Wave Radio

Natural Fiber Ottoman or Stool for the Office

January 28, 2013 by Susan 107 Comments

Welcome to the 210th Metamorphosis Monday! Last night I happened to turn on the TV while Downton Abbey was on. I can never remember exactly when it comes on so I always end up watching it in bits and pieces over the week as the episode is replayed over and over on PBS. I watched last night until the foreshadowing became too foreboding. An arrogant, know-it-all doctor and talk of swollen ankles was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, My Nest, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Garden Seat, Home Office, IKEA Billy Bookcases, Natural Fiber Ottoman, Office Library, Pottery Barn Bedford Furniture, Woven Ottoman

A New Lamp for the Office & A Little Halloween Fun

October 30, 2012 by Susan 43 Comments

Before I share something fun and lighthearted (a nice distraction on this day) I just wanted to say my heart and prayers go out to all effected by Hurricane Sandy. ♥ A Little Halloween Decorating & A New Lamp for the Office If you've been following the progress of the office, you know I've been hoping to find some new lamps better suited for this space than the polished brass lamps I'm currently … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Halloween Decor, Halloween Holiday Home, My Nest, Office/Craft/Sewing Room, The Holiday Home Tagged With: Halloween, Halloween Decorating, Home Office, Lighting for Reading

Another Piece of the Puzzle

June 20, 2011 by Susan 97 Comments

Welcome to the 126th Metamorphosis Monday! Happy Met Monday! Hope you've had a wonderful weekend and a great Father's Day! This Metamorphosis Monday I'm excited to share an important addition to my home office. Have you ever searched and searched for a particular piece of furniture for your home and being unable to find it, gave up, only to have it immediately appear the next day? If so, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, My Nest, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Chair-side chest for reading corner, Home Office, Pottery Barn Office, small chest for office

Tole Chandelier for the Office

May 9, 2011 by Susan 74 Comments

Welcome to the 120th Metamorphosis Monday! Happy Metamorphosis Monday! Things are about to get cranking once again with the home office. I'm still waiting on a component that's backordered, but the chandelier is here. Unfortunately, the contractor who will install it (along with the crown molding) is currently out of town. He is supposed to be back in town this week, so hopefully I'll have some neat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Before & After, My Nest, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Home Office, Tole Chandelier, Whimsical Chandelier

A Behind the Scenes Tour

April 15, 2011 by Susan 53 Comments

Sometimes the most fun stuff to see in a room redo are the things that are hidden from sight. So though I haven't hung this bulletin board, yet... Or, this cute shelf... Or, this wrapping center I shared HERE, I have been busy with a few other little things in the office. Come take a peek. Remember the steps I found for Max for only $10 at an indoor flea market HERE? I had Home … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DIY, DIY Organization and Storage, For the Love of Birds, Gardening & Birding, My Nest, Nature, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Bird Watching, Birding, Home Office, Organization and Storage Ideas for the home office, Window Bird Feeder

Building a Home Office

January 17, 2011 by Susan 100 Comments

Welcome to the 104th Metamorphosis Monday! Last week in THIS post, I shared a lot of pics of my son's old room and my plans to turn it into a home office. This is a bittersweet metamorphosis, because though I do need a place to work, I am having trouble letting go of this room. I also shared some rooms that are acting as my inspiration for the office … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bedroom (Son's), Before & After, My Nest, Office/Craft/Sewing Room Tagged With: Bedroom Makeover, Bedroom Renovation, Converting a bedroom to an Office, Creating a Home Office, Home Office, Home Office Addition, Office Design, Pottery Barn Bedford Office Furniture