Holy goodness, this project has been such a long time in the making.  When we moved into our home three years ago I immediately claimed the formal dining room as my space.  I set it up as my craft room, but at the time I didn’t own much in the way of furniture to make up a home office.  I had some of the cubes from Michaels that you can put together in any configuration, but it was totally boring, completely lacking inspiration and kind of gave me a case of the sads when I looked around me.

But that is all in the past.  I now have the home office of my dreams!

Each time that my husband deploys I love to change the house up in some fashion.  Whether it be repainting a room, tiling a floor or adding wainscoting to my staircase, I bust my butt to create new spaces.  In all honesty, I am sure that it is partly just me trying to keep myself busy, but it is also the perfect time to get things done the way I  want them without having to ask his opinion!  Haha!

But my office was totally for me, and I wanted it to reflect my personality and feel like a space that would invite creativeness.  BLACK+DECKER has launched a fun “Your Big Finish” initiative that gave me the kick in the bottom that I needed to get this project finished once and for all.  The BLACK+DECKER “Your Big Finish” movement is giving you an opportunity to win a cool $10,000 in cash and products and they might even put you and your newly finished product on a bill board right smack in the middle of Times Square.  How cool is that?!  There are weekly prizes as well, check out the list here.

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As you can see from the picture above, my space was a hot mess.  I had even picked out a paint color for the top portion of the walls months ago.  It still didn’t get me motivated enough.  For one thing, I wasn’t completely sure the color was right, for another thing, there were lots of holes in two of my walls where we had previously hung pictures and shelves.  I HATE patching holes.  Call me lazy (it’s totally earned in this case), but I just don’t want to spend that much time sanding.  The solution?  Hang bigger stuff over the holes!  Genius!

I slapped some paint on the walls, mint on top, gray on the bottom and made a gallery wall on one of the walls with holes.  I was careful with my placement of each piece, making sure to add not only things that I loved, but things that would cover those holes!  After taking a step back and seeing the finished product, I am so in love with it!  The bulletin board gives me tons of space to hang anything I need to see or remember, the embroidery hoop clock was a blast to make and gives some spunk and the quotes remind me that I really do love what I am working on in there…99% of the time!

What about the other wall with holes?  Oh, I am so glad you asked, because I am obsessed with this wall as well!  I cut a piece of pegboard to size and slapped that baby up there.  The amount of storage is unbelievable and I love the big burst of color.  I hung some Ikea baskets up and added a bit of wash tape to give them a bit more excitement and there you have it.

Because there is so much storage space on the pegboard wall, my china hutch (that I found on Craigslist) is now so much less cluttered and I can actually find things in there now.

I also found this sweet vintage school desk on Craigslist (it’s an addiction…and this desk was only $30…who could pass that up?!) to put in the corner for my tag along daughter to hang out at while I work.

And just because I love the look that this light fixture throws off, here is one last picture with the lights on:

I am so madly in love with this space now and I feel like it really represents who I am.  And hey, it even matches my blog design!  Big thanks to BLACK+DECKER and their “Your Big Finish” initiative for sponsoring this post.  I needed that kick in the pants to FINALLY get this home office makeover done!

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