Before and After: My "Office Nook" in Progress

Okay, okay, office nook is an exaggeration.  It's wall space in our bedroom occupied by my desk.  Bedroom workspace?  Tsk, tsk, you say -- I hear you.  But it's the only available real estate in the house, and I'm making it work.

When my friend Lisa moved this summer, she offered me I subtly suggested that if she wasn't  moving all of her office wall unit (who knew what space she'd have in the next house?), I would be glad to relieve her of the middle desk and hutch. (Lol.  Anyone who knows me can hear me telling her it was the least she could do for leaving me in a puddle.)  Anyway,

this is where the picture is supposed to go of the dated cherry finish 

desk and hutch, being sanded by yours truly in the garage.  

However, unable to find it, I will tell you instead 

that it was in serious need of a new life.

After I primed the desk, we hauled it to our bedroom upstairs. (You know how to tell cheap furniture?  It weighs a ton from all the MDF.  Don't worry, Lisa knows this -- it came from her husband's old office.)  The walls in our room were BM Vellum, and the stylish chair is straight from my man's office.  Here's the Before...

It was like this from October until last week. 

What lit a fire under my butt to start the bedroom retreat I've been promising my husband?  My 14 year old girls' birthday sleepover.  We have no finished basement or hang-out space.  Enough said?  "Retreat" will have many meanings in the years ahead.

This really is an "In Progress."  More to come, but I thought I'd share where I've gone so far...

Who knew when I reupholstered this chair (myself) last year, that Honeysuckle would be the color of this year?  I blush at how ahead of the curve I am (lol, hahaha...).  Seriously, I took this wing chair from the living room, along with the drapes, to start the bedroom. (I have other plans for the living room.)  The house has been morphing as we go along, and since the bedroom needed drapes, well, why make new ones when I could move them and change the living room?  Brilliant, I know.  (Cheeky this post, aren't I?)

The color of the room is now BM Antique Parchment, and the desk color is BM Natural Wicker.  I'm super happy so far.  There are more plans for my nook.  New lamp, shelving, and other surprises.  And the bedroom, there are plans for that, too.  But, I'm committed to trying to pace myself (like that will happen) because I tend to wipe myself out.  Off to do more painting...

Talk to you soon,
Carol