Workspace Upgrades

Kenroy Home provided me with a free light fixture.

We've now lived in our Nashville home for nearly 11 months. I got everything in order at lightening pace. For the most part, I've been pretty happy with all of my quick decisions, but not so much my office/workspace. After, you know, actually working in the space, it quickly revealed its shortcomings -- chief among them was that there wasn't enough storage for what is apparently an ever-expanding craft supply stockpile. Yeah, like for a war...a craft war. You can check out the office back in November here, and last month, I shared some changes that I made to help me work more comfortably. In addition to those changes, I made myself some new curtains, upgraded my light fixture, and treated myself to a serious pegboard situation to help alleviate my storage woes. Read on for more pics and details.

What you'll find conspicuously missing from old photos of the room is an overhead light. That was for a reason. If you're super curious, you can see the old fixture in the next to last pic in this post. I could never find shades that quite fit these old fixtures, so I was dealing with a couple of bare bulbs, which obviously wasn't cutting it. Ultimately, I installed the Aden pendant from Kenroy Home. It has been the perfect addition -- a touch of femininity, a little shimmer, and a slight golden tone that nicely offsets the rest of the gold going on in the room.

As for the curtains, I had gone with white back in November, because I'd thought that a bold pattern would compete and ultimately clash with the wallpaper. After a while, though, the white curtains on the white wall just weren't doing it for me. So I made myself a pair using this bold Dwell Studio fabric, and I think the geometric print works quite nicely with the more organic print of the wallpaper.

And now, my pegboard. My precious, precious pegboard. I've always been a sucker for a pegboard, and this one has given me nearly endless options for storing tools, supplies, and even pics and decor. What's more exciting than versatile storage? Ammaright?! And in case you're wondering, half of those plants on the pegboard are indeed fake...but the window sill ones are real!

Disclosure: Kenroy Home provided me with a free light fixture. All opinions are my own.