A Budget-Friendly Home Office Makeover: a house log

When Jennifer sent over some pictures of her sitting nook turned office we simply had to share the goods. Here is her letter:

Hey YHLers. I am totally hooked on your journal and hoped to share my recent home office makeover. It went from a non-functional sitting room (it in fact did function as a laundry dumping ground which was not quite pleasing to the eyes, and truly served no other purpose) to an extremely functional home office space. A lot of the major stuff was already owned, such as the chandelier and the desk (moved from another room in the house). We simply dressed things up a bit by creating a homemade bulletin board, craft storage using a magnetic board and spice tins, a large photo collage wall calendar, wallpapering the desk and adding some other pops of pink to keep things feeling lively and fresh. The paint color on the walls is Behr’s Ultra Primer/Paint combo in Frozen Pond. You can check out the step by step process here on my journal, where I spilled all the details of getting from point A to completion. Now that the room is so functional, we find ourselves spending a ton of time there, and it also forces us to hang up our laundry, where it belongs! I hope you enjoy. Thanks again for being so inspirational! – Jennifer

Here is Jennifer’s formerly unused seating nook before the big office upgrade:

And here is her new office after the budget-friendly makeover:

Did not Jennifer do a strong job of turning a laundry-collecting chair into a fully functional office packed with storage space and style? We enjoy everything from the high-hung floating shelf and those strong magnetic spice tins to the crisp white hanging vases that hold pens and markers. And is not the teardrop chandelier charming too? Strong job Jennifer! What do you folks think? Any go-to details? Is there anyone else out there who is ready to give a wasted corner in their house a big office makeover?