My BFF's

I love Ikea for a lot of obvious reasons, but one of them is for the fact that you can buy something from them and easily put your own twist on it.  Earlier in the week I showed you my office, which has pretty much been done for well over a year and a half. However, I didn't put the "finishing touches" on it until last week. By "finishing touches" I mean organizing and styling it.  I've had the expedit shelving unit in my office for a long time, but it didn't always look as pretty and organized as it does now. Partly because I have project ADD and usually start another project before I finish the one I'm currently working on and partly because I couldn't bring myself to spend the money on the baskets I originally wanted for storage.

 So, in wanting to finally finish my office I decided I would use the Kassett Box from Ikea which would cost me $20 for four, rather then $70 for the baskets.

It's no secret that spray paint and I are BFFs, but I have found two new friends that I can easily become BFF's with too. Want to meet them? Let me introduce you to my new friends  Rub N Buff and contact paper. I have used a lot of both of these products lately and am loving the endless possibilities. 

Since I have gold accents in my office I wanted to add gold to the boxes to glam them up a little. I added Rub N Buff to to name plates on the boxes. Rub N Buff is a metallic wax paste that can easily be rubbed on with your finger or paint brush.  Since the name plates were not attached to the boxes yet, I found it easiest to just rub it on with my finger.

I then added a 1 1/2 inch strip of gold contact paper to the top and bottom of the boxes. Since this contact paper was a little pricey, I just added it to the front of the boxes.

I also used the Rub N Buff on the Kassett Magazine Files

The top pieces were not yet attached, which made it easy to Rub N Buff.

The label holder was already attached to the file, so I found it easiest to use a paint brush when putting the Rub N Buff on.

The paper tray  is also from Ikea and for this one I used my true BFF, spray paint! I used this Gold spray paint.

Enjoy your weekend!

xoxo,

                                                        

Home Tour {Office}

Have you noticed on my Home page that I have a tab that reads "Home Tour"? Have you noticed that the page is still empty? Yeah, me too. I'm working on it.
 In my crazy head I was wanting everything to be picture perfect before I post pictures of our home...but then I quickly felt overwhelmed  realized that is not realistic. The "Home Tour" tab would remain blank for a really long time if I'm waiting on perfection!  There is a lot more tweaking I'd like to do to our home over time, but I'm going to show you what it currently looks like, one room at a time because I can only keep one room clean at a time  and keep you posted about changes along the way.


Welcome to our office!

Enjoy!


Living in a house full of men, any chance I get to have a "girly space" I take complete advantage of it. We do all use/share the office, but I've claimed it as mine! Thankfully none of my men have complained so far about the decor.  I mean, the desk is blue..that counts as boyish, right?

                             

Here's a before picture of the desk

The desk is a $10 craigslist find that my husband painted in Benjamin Moore's Admiral Blue. The acrylic ghost chair is from here.  The gold frame was a garage sale find from a couple years ago. Inside the frame is a foam poster board covered in vintage sheet music that my SIL and I made for a marriage conference at our church last year.  I liked the saying that we painted on it, so I kept it in the frame. 

I stenciled the wall with this Trellis Wall Stencil. The lamp was a thrift store find and repainted in Rustoleum's Pistachio spray paint. 

Inside the desk, I lined the drawers with scrapbook paper and mod podge.

The Expedit shelving unit is from Ikea.

The zebra printed rug...Oh, the zebra rug.

 It is the one DIY project that almost made me throw a fit in the towel. It was many long hours of me sitting on our hard tile floor, hunched over painting. What a girl does for a zebra printed rug!

The gold zebra print rug was made using this tutorial. 

Remember this post about the jars I made for my son? I made me some too!

You know the old saying "Don't judge a book by its cover"...well that doesn't apply when styling a bookcase!  I totally judge thrift store books by their cover! I'm always looking for books that match a color scheme, add a "pop" of color...or in this case one that has a title that I find humorous! (Diary of a Mad Housewife)

The bowl and basket are from Marshall's. The gold and blue picture frame is from HomeGoods. The other small frames and yellow phone were thrifted.

The black magazine holders, gold paper tray, and the white boxes are all from Ikea. I'll share more on them later in the week.

Hope you enjoyed seeing our office!

xo,