After 4 months, it’s finally here. The big reveal on what I did with my home office improvement project 
Wrote about this in my other blog but didn’t post the pics there. After not being able to update this blog for 4 months, I thought it was only fair I post them here.
So, here it is, from the mess is was before to…this! Ta-da!
My Newly Improved Moroccan/ Mediterranean Inspired Home Office
Octagon Mirror and Perfume Bottle
Paraphrasing what I said in my other blog… it stayed a mess for some time because I couldn’t ”see” it. I knew and wanted a mediterranean/ Moroccan inspired space but didn’t know how to put it together.
Until 2 weeks ago. I was in a hardware store, looking for paint once again and after I made my choice, suddenly I could see it in my mind’s eye.
Down to the details of what other colors I wanted and what other elements I wanted the space to have – like this octagon mirror and this perfume bottle that I had sitting around somewhere.
Dressed Up Recessed Ceiling
If you’re wondering what’s that thing on the wall, its glass sticker. I choose these 2 patterns for their colors and design. Plus it went very well with purple. I put this up on the recessed ceiling as well. At first I wasn’t sure I wanted it there but then the space felt incomplete without dressing up it’s ceiling as well
Glass Stickers
Here’s a closer look at its design, colors, and patterns.
Pretty huh?
Modern Red Filing Cabinet Turned Mediterranean With Stickers
The red filing cabinet I already had even before I started this project. And the reason its red is because I had extra fire engine red paint and didn’t want it to go to waste.
When I bought this filing cabinet at a surplus shop, it was gray and looking very drab and so I thought, red would be the perfect color to give it a facelift it needed.
Now I wasn’t too sure if it would fit with my Mediterranean / Moroccan theme but then I figured if I placed something more on it, a design within the same color scheme, perhaps it could work? So I bought these stickers which you use for the bathroom, and stuck them on the cabinet and voilà! From Modern to Mediterranean if I should say so myself.
Other details in this space include a flask (I once carried around) now used as a book end stopper and this scent diffuser.
Flask (once often used) Now Turned Book End Holder and Scent Diffuser
Paper Mache Pencil Holder
As for this paper mache pencil holder, it was my grandmother’s.
To be honest about it, she didn’t exactly give it to me. But I liked it so much I took it from her dresser one day when I was about 6 or 7 and started keeping all my nice pencils and crayons in it.
She never asked for it back.
I would like to think she thought I’d take good care of and that it’d find its way somewhere in a place like this.
Tea Holder Used As A Paper Clip Holder
This green box came with tea in it. But with the tea all gone, now I’m using it as a paper clip holder instead. I think the color contrasts very nicely with the purple walls.
I had this glass fish – I like glass, did I happen to mention that? - for some time now but it stay wrapped in its bubble wrap for about 2 years. I never quite knew what to do with it, rather, where to place it. Now I do. It has a home now.
Flying Glass Fish
Stool with Plush Velvet Patterned Seat Cover
For seating I decided against going for a traditional office seat and instead used this stool with its plush black velvet seat covering.
I know I should probably look for a more “practical” one, but this I think fits very nicely into this space. It used to be in my bedroom, a placeholder for my various documents I keep by my bedside.
Yellow Candle Holders
Now it’s serving its real purpose.
Last I have these hanging candle holders placed on the wall. Just in case there’s a black out and for some reason I still want to continue working… by candlelight
So, there you have it. This is the sight that greets me first thing in the morning and at night when I open my bedroom door.
It makes me smile. And by that, I feel I’ve accomplished what I set out to do.
The Office At Night
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