This is a belated post I promised about our office and how we repainted it and what it looks like now, which you will see, is different but not perfect and…still a mess. SHOCKING.

Before. WAY before.

BB said he might kill me if I posted this picture because it’s embarrassingly awful and he thinks it qualifies us for Hoarders. I said it was just a “work room” that we used for storage sometimes and that the Internet would understand and not judge us. Please note the wall color (ass), and the electronics tower that could topple if you look at it wrong.

So then we cleaned out all the junk, taped off the walls and really took a good, long look at this ugly room and bid it farewell.

The quality of this picture is quite terrible, but it’s the first wall of navy blue and we squealed because we loved it so. We hated the color of the hardwood floor before, and we still kind of do, but it looks so much better now and the trim really pops against the blue.

It made a huge difference really quickly.

Finished! Kind of.

This is the after, and again, the quality of the photo really is bad and doesn’t do the room justice. The sofa is a blue-gray leather and actually looks great against the blue walls. We haven’t hung pictures yet, but I did pick out some pillows that are kind of office-y but cute.

A family of 5 could live on these shelves.

Man these pictures are fuzzy. So this is one of the two shelving units we bought to store all our junk on. They’re giant. But they’re kind of industrial and they hold EVERYTHING. We swapped the rug for a faux sisal and the shelves now have matching seagrass lamps on them. It’s coming along, but it’s a vast improvement.

Trust me.