Office/Guest Room

Details:

When I bought the home:
The guest room had a lots of shelves and wallpaper. The carpet was about 30 years old, the windows were old, and the ceiling had some minor water damage from the plumbing. There was an old phone jack, the plaster walls needed to be resurfaced/textured, and the closet doors scraped the ceiling when fully opened (the ceiling was sagging). There’s a door to the garage, which entered into another small room (bedroom? office?) in the garage.

The Plan:
Fix the closet door issue, add ethernet cable, add a network/wifi hub inside the closet, remove all shelves/wallpaper and resurface the drywall, replace the windows and doors, add recessed lights, and replace the floor.

Additions to the office/guest room:
- Floors: Wide-plank wood oak from ADM Flooring (color: Sunset)
- Rug: CB2
- Desk: IKEA (top, with legs painted white)
- Arch Lamp: Koncept via ABC Home or Lumens
- Chair: Stowed
- Windows: Milgard (Style Line) via Dixieline Lumber
- Paint: Benjamin Moore: Simply White in matte finish
- Door knobs: Schlage
- Cabinet handles: Wayfair
- Wall art: Target
- Wind chimes: Target (and Plant Bracket)
- Woven vase: Target
- Carafe: Anthropologie (and glasses)
- Hanging planter: General Store
- Bookcase: CB2
- Printer: Costco
- Recessed lights: 4” Halo
- Indoor plants: Yucca, Pothos, Pancake Plant, and Green Flame Fern
- Styling: Natalie Griffo

Accessories on Bookcase:
- Kevin Willis Votives: Commune (from the Ace Hotel Los Angeles)
- Art: Target (Blue scribble wall print)
- Candle Holders: Target (Large and Medium)
- Bud Vase: ABC Home
- Books: Various (Healthier Together, Fiesta at Rick’s, The Perfect Egg, Egg Shop, I Love California, Home Body, Cooked Raw, The Art of Simple Food II, The Home Edit, Gluten Free Entertaining, Gluten-Free Girl Every Day, Eating Purely, Southern California Gardening)
- Black vase: Target
- Black and white circle vase/pot: Double M Pottery (via Solo on Cedros)
- Picture frame: Target
- Wave puzzle: General Store
- Small plant pots: Pigment

Before:

Creating a home office that’s practical and minimal:

A great way to save money in your budget (on a whole home remodel project) is to spend less on an office/den space renovation. I kept the original closet doors (and changed the hardware), kept the garage access door (even though it is very narrow), and kept the electrical outlets and switches in the same spot. The places that I shopped for low-priced furniture was IKEA, Target, and Costco. My basic advice for creating a home office: keep it minimal and fun so you look forward to sitting at your desk all day.