Five weeks ago we had a space with pea-green walls and mismatched furniture… but not anymore. Check out our (pretty incredible) farmhouse office makeover.
A special thank you to Sherwin Williams, Minted, and Lamps Plus for providing product for this office makeover.
I honestly don’t think I have ever been so excited about a room reveal… Most of the time I am making over rooms with only $100 to spend (You can learn more about the $100 Room Challenge here), but twice a year I join in with the One Room Challenge and get to make over a space with a bigger budget. Over the past 5 weeks I have been working on our office space…. I’m going to try to stay away from gabbing too much, and let the pictures do most of the talking, but before the pretty, you have got to see what this space looked like 5 weeks ago…
Total disaster: Mismatched furniture, green walls… Not great…
Our Farmhouse Office Makeover
Ready to see our farmhouse office makeover?
Can you even believe that is the same room?! Neither can I!
Let’s take a little tour around the room, and just ’cause it’s fun to see how different a space looks, I’ll throw in a few more “before and afters” too 🙂 (Sources provided at the end of this post.)
This is the space directly to your right when you walk in the doors. One of my goals was to create a command center. While I had thought of adding more, I realized this was all I really needed; a whiteboard calendar and a tiered paper holder… along with a couple framed words to make it pretty 🙂
If you follow on Instagram, then you know the story behind that gorgeous (hand-painted) sign by Averie Lane Boutique. (Long story, short: I really wanted a sign like this, but I couldn’t find any with a saying that I loved. I basically asked every blogger I know if they had (or knew of someone with) an Etsy shop that sells them, and Amber was not only willing to custom-make one for me, she got it to me in record time 🙂 )
When it came to a shelving, I decided to forego my original plan (to makeover some galvanized steel pantry shelves) and, instead, purchased some white bookshelves that fit the room much better. For filing, I decided to use magazine holders and store our files vertically. Loving the end result 🙂
And the other bookcase…
Moving on to the desk area…
This chair was a last minute (yesterday) purchase. I had another one bought and assembled, but it just wasn’t exactly what I wanted. Walk into Home Goods, and bam, there it was; and it was perfect.
My view from the desk…
In order to create more storage, I purchased a 6 drawer dresser from IKEA (which I’m pretty proud to say, I assembled by myself 🙂 ) This also gives me a place to put the printer and Cricut.
Just to the right of the “printing station”, I have a numbered cubby to hold all my essential oils. (The cubby used to be in our cleaning closet, but it’s too cute to keep behind closed doors 🙂 ) Below the cubby is a cute basket I found at Hobby Lobby to hold all our wrapping paper.
Let’s talk curtains…
I love the bold pattern of these curtains from Minted… and while I love the industrial look of “pipe rods”, I always thought they’d be really heavy to hang… No worries though… Target figured out how to make some great looking rods that I was able to hang myself.
Ready for a few more before and afters? Here you go!
For a list of sources, scroll on down past the “Pinterest Image” 🙂
A special thank you to those that sponsored this office makeover! And thank you to Calling It Home for hosting this bi-annual event.
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Sources For This Farmhouse Office Makeover
The Basics
Paint: Agreeable Gray– Sherwin Williams
Light Fixture: Franklin Park Metal Cage 12″ Wide Bronze Ceiling Light- Lamps Plus
Curtains: Moroccan Diamonds Curtains in Indigo– Minted
Curtain Rod: French Pipe Drapery Rod by Threshold™– Target
Curtain Rings: Curtain Clip Rings Set – Oil Rubbed Bronze – Threshold™– Target
Rug: Woven Rug by Threshold™– Target
Desk: Campaign Desk– World Market
Desk Chair- Home Goods
Dresser: Malm 6 Drawer Dresser– IKEA
Bookcases: Billy Bookcases (White)– IKEA
Bookcase Styling
Esther 4:14 Hand-Painted Wood Sign (Custom Made)- Averie Lane Boutique
Small Charlie Clock– World Market
Glass Lanterns- Discontinued at Target (Similar)
3 Twine Wrapped Glass Bottles in Wood Box- Michaels
Wicker Baskets- Michaels
Glass Hurricane Candle Holder– Hobby Lobby
SOCKER Plant Pot, Galvanized– IKEA
FEJKA Artificial Potted Plant– IKEA
Wall Décor
Numbered Cubby- Discontinued at Target (Similar)
3 Tier Wire Sorter- Home Goods (Similar)
Jeremiah 29:11 Wood Wall Decor Set- Hobby Lobby
Monthly Calendar Dry Erase Board– Hobby Lobby
Love Wood Sign // Faith Wood Sign // Hope Wood Sign- Hobby Lobby
Miscellaneous
HEKTAR Work Lamp– IKEA
Nest Paper Tray- The Container Store
Wrapping Paper Basket: Cannot Find Exact Item Online- Hobby Lobby
Very nice, but where is the outlet for the lamp and charging the laptop?
Thank you.
That is a popular question, and I answered it in this post 🙂 https://www.lemonslavenderandlaundry.com/hide-cords/
Your room is beautiful, light & airy, I’d love to spend time here! I had my hubby make the pipe curtain rods for me & I love them. If I had known you could purchase ones that looks that realistic we would have gone that way, yours look great. You did a wonderful job on your room, it looks so inviting!
Looks great Erin. My vote (assuming I get a vote 🙂 would be for a window bench. But then it would probably turn into a bench seat with built-ins on either side, and then it would be a whole other project… Yay!! I’m also jealous that you HAVE an office. My office is the kitchen table. Or the outdoor daybed when it’s sunny!
Hey, an outdoor daybed sounds like a perfect office to me 🙂
So pretty! you did such an amazing job!
XO Ellen from Ask Away
http://www.askawayblog.com
Thanks Ellen!
It’s so spacious now and it looks like you’re going to have tones of storage and hiding places for all those crafty items we want to put away when not in use. And if I had that chair, I wouldn’t get our of it 😉 Great last minute choice. Beautiful room!!
Thanks Amy! Definitely love when you can hide all those art/craft supplies behind closed doors or in baskets, and this office space has served me well with a whole lot of storage 🙂 And I was SO excited to find that chair last minute. The one I had just wasn’t quite right, and I just kept thinking it looked “off”. So glad I was able to snag this one 🙂
What a gorgeous office, Erin! So perfect for staying organized! Love your desk! xo
Thanks Kendra! I think the desk is my favorite thing in the office 🙂
It looks so good Erin! I love how fresh and bright it looks. That desk is amazing and so pretty in the middle of the room.
Thanks Katy! I hated having our old set-up with the desk up against the wall. (Who wants to stare at a wall all day?) Love having the desk “float” in the room so I can see out the windows.
Looks great – I love the industrial touch of the pipe curtain rods! A great space for getting stuff done 🙂
Thanks Casey! It is always easier to be productive in a well organized space 🙂
The room looks great! I do think a window seat would look great! I think even if it is a little narrow, it would still look really cute to have a little bench with maybe some storage underneath! This doesn’t even look like the same room. You did an amazing job!
Thanks Nicki! I am leaning towards the window seat idea as well. I think it might be a great way to create a charging station as both my kiddos have Chrome books for school, and are supposed to charge them every night. I just have to find something that works in that space between the bookcases 🙂
I looks amazing! You’re right, that chair works so well in the space 🙂
Thanks Nicole! I was SO happy to find that chair the day before the reveal. It was perfect for the space.
Wow great makeover Erin! Everything is so organized!. Love the desk and those curtains panels might need to be in my life LOL! Congrats!
Thanks Linda! I’m pretty sure the desk is my favorite thing in the room, and I was so excited once those curtains were hung, they just add some color and pattern to the room… You totally need some 🙂
Erin, it looks so great! So bright, fresh, and organized! Great job!
The room looks great! I love that desk! I’m glad I’m not the only one who still feels like there’s more to do!
Thanks Emy! I feel like there’s always little things that don’t get quite finished when you work with a tight time-frame, but man this room has come a long way despite that.
Desk? perfect. Chair? perfect. Artwork? perfect. Curtain rod? perfect. This room is just so darn great! Oh, and I totally vote window seat. Maybe with the bench cover upholstered in that extra curtain panel you have! 😉
Thanks Thalita! I’m leaning towards the window seat as well, but I never thought to do a cushion with the extra panel. Brilliant!
Love that desk! So much room to work and such a pretty makeover!
Thank you Bre! I think the desk is my favorite thing in the office 🙂
It looks fantastic, Erin! So much great organization and storage in there. Love all the inspirational quotes you used as art!
Thanks Carol! I am just loving the wood framed quotes/verses lately, so I had to add a few to the space.
Erin, it turned out great! I love how organized it is and the wall color made a huge wrenches! Great job!
If I had done nothing but change the wall color, I still think this room would’ve still looked totally different. The light gray brightened everything up so much and gave the space a different feel all together. Love what a couple coats of paint can do to a room!
You did great I love the clean simple lines and color palette you choose.
This room looks so fresh and bright! What an inviting place to work, now. Great job!
It looks so much lighter and brighter!
Your office looks so great! I am going to have to find that basket from Hobby Lobby and what a genius and gorgeous filing system.
Thanks Jessica! I just love that Hobby Lobby basket. It reminds me a lot of their tobacco baskets. The filing system was completely unplanned. I originally was going to use the magazine holders for something else, but as I was putting them together and adding them to the bookcase, I realized they’d be perfect to house all our files 🙂 So nice when things work out like that.
It looks so clean and organized! Great job
Thanks Jessica!
I can’t believe it’s the same room. It’s beautiful! ??
Maybe you can hide printer like Bridget from DIYPlaybook did – http://thediyplaybook.com/2015/08/hide-printer.html.
Enjoy your new space!
What an awesome idea for hiding a printer!!! Thanks for sharing that post. I think our printer maybe, like, 15 years old. It’s HUGE. I just asked my husband about getting a new one, and when we do, I think I might just try that basket idea… Not sure they make baskets big enough to house my current printer 🙂
Love it! You did a beautiful job pulling it all together. My office is shaped just like yours but with only one window. I have been thinking of doing the bookshelves on either side of the window with the window seat too 🙂 Seeing yours finished makes me ready to do mine!
I am so happy that I went with bookcases on either side of the window. While this wasn’t my original plan, it worked so much better than expected. Good luck with your office. It’ll be totally worth the work when it’s all done 🙂
Congrats, Erin! You made this space so light bright and lovely. I am so jealous of your dedicated office!
I just shared my ORC reveal, check it out here: http://www.charlestoncrafted.com/2017/05/10/orc-reveal-fully-diy-remodeled-walk-master-closet/
My hope is that this office will help to separate work life from family life. It’s hard when you work in the living room 🙂 Fun to journey through another challenge with you. Enjoy that closet of yours!(Seeing it makes me think I might take on our closet for the $100 Room Challenge in July 🙂 ).
Erin, it looks amazing. So bright and fresh and organized! I would love to have an office that looks this good! Great choice on the book shelves. You have them styled to perfection…..functional yet beautiful too!
While my original plan didn’t include so much white, I love the way this turned out more than my original vision… Love when that happens. I also like that the bookcases provide so much storage and I can easily change the styling with the seasons. Thanks for stopping over and checking out the office!
Great job, Erin!
I am going to see if she will make the Ester 4:14 sign for me as well. It may just become her biggest seller…
Isn’t it gorgeous?! She has others in her shop, but I needed a smaller one so it would fit on the shelf. I absolutely adore it.
It’s gorgeous Erin! Such a huge transformation! The blinds and the rug are stunning. And so much pretty organization! This is any mother’s dream come true! LOVE it!
Thanks Lindi! I am so in love with this space now. Total change from 5 weeks ago. Can’t wait to start blogging in here.
Looks so organized and clean! I love the desk and the chair, good find!
Thanks Jillian! Definitely a more organized, stream-lined space.
Ok I am going to ask for the breakdown of costs for this room. I’m new to this challenge and I see that you received items (sponsored), but it also seems like more than $100 spent. I absolutely love love love this makeover.
This is actually a room I made over for the ONE Room Challenge, which is hosted by another blogger, not the $100 Room Challenge (which I host). Kinda confusing, I know. I have done 5 room makeovers for this challenge, and 10 makeovers for the $100 Room Challenge. For all the $100 room challenges, I do break down the cost so you can see everything, and I NEVER use sponsored items for the $100 Room Challenges because my hope is to show others how much you can do on a tight budget. (If my readers can’t get free product, I don’t either 🙂 ) This office makeover cost around $800 (not including the product received from sponsors… Around $1,300 if I hadn’t received product.) If you want to see my last $100 room, you can find it here: https://www.lemonslavenderandlaundry.com/farmhouse-bathroom/
Wow! It’s just stunning!
Awww… Thank you Deborah!
This is beautiful Erin! what a great makeover! I seriously almost bought that basket from Hobby Lobby you have your wrapping paper in! I just didn’t know where to put it at the time and thought it was too much of an impulse buy! Ha! I love the command center you created, simple but very organized is the key in your room. 🙂
I kinda did the same thing. I loved the basket, but wasn’t exactly sure what to do with it 🙂 My problem is that I typically DON’T buy stuff because I don’t think I’ll find a use for it, and when I figure it out, I can’t find the item anymore 🙂
Beautiful space, Erin! I love the aqua file holders! Seriously, they look great! Also love your sign that you got in record time. Kudos to that sweet friend. Enjoy your new room. Congrats! Susie from The Chelsea Project
Thanks Susie! And thanks for offering up a couple people who you thought might be able to help me out with the sign 🙂
I love the way it turned out!!! Your office is gorgeous!!!
Thank you so much Tracy. I keep joking that I’m going to grab a sleeping bag and spend the night in here 🙂
It looks so much brighter than before! It’s such a nice place to do work in now 🙂
I completely agree. Those dark walls (and let’s be honest, the complete mess) did not help the space feel open at all. Now I feel like the room is twice the size it once was.
This is perfect Erin!! What a great space to work in!!
I was so excited to sit in this office and work on today’s post. It’s so bright and cheery now that I’ll gladly give up my living couch (where I used to blog and work).
I absolutely love it! Can I ask where you plug in your desk lamp and computer? I am going to copy this great room.
I was actually thinking of doing a quick post on my cord situation. I actually used some small command hooks to run the cords under the desk so you can’t see them. They are plugged into an extension cord (that’s also secured under the desk). I ran the extension cord down the desk leg and slipped it under the rug and into the outlet behind the desk. I was pretty excited that it worked so well to hide the cords.
so light and bright and pretty! love the colors and how organized it is!
Thanks Cassie! Definitely a change from a few weeks ago 🙂
Gorgeous job! I love how you streamline everything and its not cluttered!
Thanks Cindy! So much easier to work in an organized space. I am loving it!
Turned out great! What a difference! I am pretty sure I have those same curtain rods in our guest bedrooms, except ours are brushed nickle. Yay for Target! And I love the desk lamp!
Isn’t Target the best? They do have those in other finishes, so I’m sure we have the same ones.
It looks really great Erin! Love the desk and the white really brightens up the room!
Thanks Ruthie! I am amazed at how much brighter this room got with the lighter paint and the white furnishings.
Erin this is a stunning transformation. The change in the wall color alone makes a huge difference. But then the addition of the white bright furniture really makes it a happy place. Love all the pretty details and touches of blue all over the room. Enjoy it!
Thank you so much Mary! The wall color was such a game-changer. Going light was definitely the right choice. It makes the room feel so much bigger and brighter.