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Turning a second bedroom into a home office
Our home's second bedroom story wasn't one of the happiest ones. When we first moved in a couple of years ago, we placed the book cases there in order to turn it into a home office. Day to day routine, lead to the room being anything but! It had to change and with a fresh coat of paint, a bit of gold and quite some elbow grease, I think we managed quite alright!

Posted by Decor Asylum • Published 30th March 2015 • See Decor Asylum's 7 projects »

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Step 1
This is the sad before. Only the bookcases were a hint to the plans we had for the space.
Step 2
After removing most of the furniture, we gave the walls 2 coats of white paint and then...
Step 3
the fun began! With painter's tape we created crossing lines on the wall behind were the desk would go.

We used two different tapes: first we placed the blue one in whatever direction we wanted, then the off-white, which represented the space to be painted and again, parallel at the other side, the blue one. The reason to use the tape in the middle was to make sure that the line was even all the way. Trust me there is no way to do it just by hand! Not at this scale!

After placing all three tapes, we removed the middle one and were left with a straight line waiting to be painted.

Having an engineer at the house, makes the job is much easier, believe me! ;)
Step 4
A large piece of string attached to something heavy (here a small rock) was very useful for achieving straight lines
Step 5
while a cutting knife and ruler were used wherever two lines crossed each other and taped needed to be removed.
Step 6
As you can understand, painting the lines gold was the easy part.
Step 7
We didn't create all lines at one go. At first we painted some, steped back and observed were the wall seemed unbalanced and needed a line.

Of course, there is no right or wrong in this. It's just what looked nice to us.
Step 8
After the walls were done, next in line was the desk. The same gold paint was used to paint a pair of desk legs from IKEA, that we later paired with a simple white surface.
Step 9
New curtains and curtain rods, a new chair, few diy accessories and some decorating later, the home office was complete.
Step 10
Surely not a project to undertake just to pass your time,
Step 11
but surely a project well worth all the work.