Townhouse Office Nook Makeover Before & After
Sharing the before and after of the room makeover from our townhouse office nook! It’s such a cozy little study space these days!
We’re going to go ahead and start this post by saying feel free to judge us for how bad these before photos are. We all have that one space that’s basically the equivalent of a pool filter catch-all, right?!
You can obviously see from the before and after of our home office nook makeover below that this room was just that! So. Bad. It was a mixture of litter boxes, random things that we were too lazy to throw away and/or organize, paperwork for “safekeeping”, etc.
Clearly, it was our very own home graveyard for allllll the things. The worst part? It’s RIGHT off of our master bedroom. We know, we know . . . we’re disappointed in ourselves too.
Needless to say, it was screaming for a facelift and a little hygge love. So we teamed up with BEHR® to transform the space using their color trends palette.
Even though we’re a die hard all-white bright spaces fan, this was the perfect space for us to really branch out for a warm cozy atmosphere. Now for the juicy before photos. . .
The Before
For the record, we think we’ve used that foldable workout bike maybe once. Basically, the only workout we got from it was from moving it to and from to vacuum.
We really weren’t joking about it being a graveyard in there. We’d also like to point out the disgusting carpet in this space.
It’s all connected to the bedroom and our master closet. So until we pull the trigger on hardwood flooring we’d love to replace all of the upstairs with, it will stay carpeted for now.
We wish we could have our own separate home office room. But it’s still nice to have an office nook that its on working space outside of any room. And our goal was to use the desk area for work and not storage.
Our Design Plan for the Home Office Nook
To help visualize the rooms, as we’re redoing each in our house, we’ve been making these design-inspiration mock-ups.
Albeit slightly distorted, it’s still a helpful way to really envision the end product. And we can say that we got pretty darn close to the original design!
The hardwood floors will really make a difference once we replace those, and the lights we originally bought were HORRIBLE quality. So we settled on different round ones, which we actually like just as much, if not more.
Green Accent Wall
Needless to say, BEHR in Equilibrium T18-20 made the biggest impact on the space, don’t you think? We used the BEHR Premium Plus Ultra® Interior Paint & Primer in eggshell, and it went on smooth like butta’! Sorry, couldn’t resist!
They launched their Color of the Year for the first time ever. (It’s called In the Moment.) But we just loved this deep green too much to pass it up.
We’re already scheming up what else we can color with the leftover paint! We really love the idea of an all-white bookcase with the backing painted with this accent green.
It’s very similar to our emerald green bedroom makeover. Also, yes, we’re a messy painter, but we can cut-in on the corners like a rockstar so at least there’s that.
Ikea Hack DIY Office Nook Desk
The next thing that absolutely had to go was the ugly built-in countertop that was used as a desk. We found this herringbone-style counter that was already the perfect size.
So we removed the old one and replaced it with the new one after we finished painting. Now we have a more modern built in desk!
If you have limited space, installing a floating desk is a great work surface option for small home office ideas.
To tie in the wall color, we had one of our drone shots from our Harbour Island printed it and framed in gold.
We love the way it looks in the space, and he loves the fact that he has a giant version of one of his photos even more!
There were so many fun photos from our Harbour Island trip to choose from, and we thought this particular one worked best with the green accent wall.
Needless to say, this is a completely new space compared to the before photos!
And yay for modern filing cabinets for making us look like an organized adult instead of a Cat 5 hoarder.
Home Office Nook Sources
- Gold and leather desk chair
- Gold hexagon trash can
- Black and white modern grid rug
- Glass globe and brass wall sconces
- White filing cabinets with spray painted gold pin legs
- Herringbone wood look desktop
- Marble book ends
- Custom photo in framed gold
- Peach vase
- BEHR® Equilibrium T18-20 paint
- BEHR eggshell paint
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