Musical Home Office

Design Challenges

• The room the client wanted to turn into a home office, was primarily used by their cats, and for miscellaneous storage.
• Mysteriously, an exterior-type metal door had been used from the foyer to this room. The room also had a door leading into the garage. Funky crown had been added by a previous homeowner. All of which the client wanted removed.
• They wanted an airy feel, not ultra-contemporary, rustic would be okay.
• Functional requests included: a desk, a place for TV, book shelving, some place to put the mail, comfortable for him to work in 10-20 hours/week, and for her to pay household bills.
• Minimal filing space as they have a filing cabinet elsewhere.

Design Solutions

• A slab door on sliding black hardware was suggested for the new door for the office – covered in a graffiti patterned paper, which would create the look of art in the bare foyer. The client created a trim-less, Sheetrock opening, for the door opening – which allows for smooth operation of the door.
• We chose the coordinating back-ground of the graffiti wallpaper to do a focal wall in the office. A warm gray was chosen for the other walls.
• A rich blue colored carpet was selected – which draws your eye to the blue in the graffiti paper. The orange in the coppery wall art is a complementary accent to the blue, and is also present in the graffiti.
• The writing desk creates an open feel, and the metal legs tie in nicely with the barn-door hardware!
• The client walled off the door to the garage, as there is another door elsewhere in the house, and created a cat door with access to a closed-off litter box area built in the garage, for their two house-cats. Our wallpaper installer did an amazing job covering the trim of the cat door!