Office/Craft room

This is the place where all the magic happens.  Well, this & my now spray paint covered basement.  My office... craft room!  Its meant to be a formal dining room, but since our office is occupied with toys galore, this is going to be our office for the time being.  It didn't start out too bad, just boring.  And dark.  I'm not totally done-done yet.  The walls need some decorations & the table needs some poly & we need some chairs.  But I wrote up this blog once & then stuff changed more, so I figured I better post it once!!  Plus, since I'm currently mid entryway-living room-upstairs hallway project.  So things in here will stay as is for quite a while.  Plus, once I get those rooms done & sort through boxes & pictures, I can decide what to put up in here.

First it got a much needed light fixture upcycle.

 Here is the room before. 

Just dark & boring.

 I wanted to make a big craft table for me & for the kids to color.  I found on Pinterest something called brown paper bag floors or brown paper bag countertops & decided to take the door that I took down from the laundry room & try this treatment for a table top for a coloring table.  Literally, its brown paper bags.  Kind of like paper mache.  This is in the still wet stage. 

 Dry.

 Then, because I liked this look better, it got a coat of stain.

 Dry.  It needs about 3 coats of polyacrylic & sanded down smooth yet before its done.  But it looks kind of like leather. 

 The top 1/2 of the walls above the chair rail got a bright coat of green.

 And I played with ideas of what to do on the bottom...

 First it got 2 coats of white paint. 

 And then a grey/brown color.  It looks similar to what it was on the before/after pictures, but this is the difference in the new vs. old colors.

And after!!!

Love my drop cloth curtains :)

The bookcase needs some storage baskets.  And the walls need some pictures.  But I'm loving the brightness of it!

 Desk.  Now I need a trip to Ikea for some stools I want.

 Storage on this side for the kids' color books, crayons, & stuff.

Once we get it all organized... the computer armoire will be Jeff's office space.  And the bookshelf & sewing table will hold my stuff.

 This is what's on the lower part of the walls, tough you can't see it much with all the furniture.

Since I originally put this together... I've added a few things!

The book shelf got some baskets.  All their play-doh, paint stuff, leap pads, etc. all tucked away.

 The desk got some baskets & accessories.

 My wedding bouquet!

 Jeff's office is a cluster... but thats his... I just shut the door.

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