A Bright Yellow-Green Office Makeover: a house log

When Erica sent her excellent office overhaul our way we had to share the before and after photos. Here is her letter:

I enjoy to read your journal and see what creative ways you come up with to save money. I lately fixed up my home office on a tight budget. Of course you can find more info about the room on my journal, but the L-shaped desk is made out of two hollow core doors (only 25 bucks each!), two table legs, and a bookshelf. The paint color is Valspar “Plum Passion.” Both chairs were thrift store finds and all the art from the art wall was fully free, it all consists of things I already had (fabric and giftwrap) or things I printed on my home printer. I used three sources for printing artwork: Vintage Printable, a disk of clipart images I had, and Dafont.com. The pear, bicycle and tree sihouettes are all Dingbat fonts I downloaded from Dafont. When all was said and done I spent about $200 benjamins. Hope you enjoy! -Erica

Here are the lackluster before shots:

And here are the remarkable (and enviably budget friendly) after photos:

Is that not a fantastic office makeover full of wallet friendly ideas? Everything from the hollow-core-doors-turned-desk and the thrift store chairs makes us swoon. Plus the fact that the whole art wall was 100% free is remarkable. We are sending over a virtual round of applause and one not-worthy bow to Erica and her fantastic office makeover. If that vivid room does not make paying bills and writing emails a bit more lively then we do not know what will! What do you folks think? And what is your go-to part? We enjoy the white roman shades with the black ribbon trim a ton, and of course that remarkable wall color paired with all the white furnishings is totally screaming our name. Lovely, lovely, lovely.

Psst- Wanna see how we made a desk with a hollow core door simply like Erica? Click here for the deets.