Blue Monday

Oh My... Where does time go??

It's hard to believe that the weekend is over and that it's Monday once again. If only the weekends could be longer. On the bright side, it's time once again for Sally's Blue Monday. Head on over to Sally's blog at http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ for a list of other Blue Monday bloggers to see what they have in store for you today. It's so fun to see all the different Blue things that everyone is posting about.

As for myself, I wasn't quite sure what to post about today, but then I remembered the comment Sally had left me last week telling me she was anxious to see what the rest of my blue home office looked liked after I showed a darling little blue lady figurine that I keep on a shelf in there, so I thought it would be a great idea to share some photos of my blue office with you today.

To explain a little bit, my home office is not that large. In the lower level of my townhouse, I have a combination laundry/utility room and the room that I use for my office. It is actually one long room, but is divided somewhat by the placement of the washer and dryer, water heater and furnace on one side and an open room on the other side.

This before shot of my office shows how drab and ugly the room was when I first moved into my house over six years ago. It was painted in a drab peachy beige color, the window was covered in some very ugly brown curtains (left by the previous homeowner) and the cement floor was bare. If anyone is curious, the barrel shaped item in the lower right hand corner of the picture is my water softner!!

With a little pale blue paint, an extra carpet remnant to cover the cold cement floor and some pretty white curtains on the windows, this room now makes the perfect spot for a home office. I spend a lot of time in this room on my computer and when working from home which I usually do two days a week.

It also has two large storage closet where I store my office and craft supplies and a southern exposure window that allows a great amount of sunlight into the room.

My desk looks a little cluttered, but I love it just the way it is. I love being surounded by all of my pretty things. The desk is nothing fancy. It is just a folding utility table covered with a white linen tablecloth. It is the perfect size for the space in my office.

Under the window, I placed a small shelf unit which I found at Target (it is from the Rachel Ashwell Simply Shabby Chic collection). It was the perfect size to fit under my window and it does not block my closet doors. This is the shelf unit that my lovely lady blue figure that I featured in last weeks post sits on. It also holds some other pretty items and some storage boxes and a basket that I can hide some of my paperwork and office supplies in.

The only ugly spot in the room is my black office chair. When I started working from home, I knew that I would need a really comfortable office chair, but I could not find one in white which is what I would love to have. The only color choices they had were black, gray or maroon. Maybe someday I will find my white dream chair, but for now, I must live with the black one.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my blue home office today. Thanks for coming to visit today. Please come back again soon :)

Have a great week !!