Grand Rapids, MI: Home Office + Hallway
Last week, I posted my bathroom. Today, I'm going to post my office. This room is 13' x 13' (or 15.5 meters squared).
First, some wider shots. The paint color is Martha Stewart "Orchid".
The rug came from Oaxaxa, MX when I visited there. The chair I found on ebay and picked up locally. Eventually I'd like to get it reupholstered - my kitties have not been kind to the original Naugahyde.
The large stainless steel cabinet is an old hospital blanket warmer that I found at a thrift store. It weighs about 500 pounds and I love it to death. Every time we move, my boyfriend gives that cabinet the evil eye.
Details:
This is the top of the stainless steel cabinet. The painting was done by a friend of mine and given to me for my birthday.
I JUST got this cabinet at an antique store. I've done some research, and I believe it dates to between 1880 and 1900. I LOVE it! It's the best thing I've purchased since the blanket warmer. Now I'm on the hunt for an appropriate small, light bookcase to replace the black ones since I just bought this cabinet yesterday.
The doors slide!
It still has the original hardware (although probably not the original key - wrong color).
My mom and grandmother, circa 1946.
Everyone needs a sock monkey! The door drawing I purchased in Zanzibar and the spiderwebs are from this guy.
Shells in the window came home with me from the Cayman Islands - legally, even!
The big birds over my desk.
Glass balls in the window. The yellow one, I got at an art and wine festival in CA; the orange came from Skansen in Stockholm.
And then, the hallway leading to my office:
The ENTIRE APARTMENT was painted this color when I moved in. Horrors. I'm from New York - can't let that long hallway space be wasted! It took a while with a stud finder to get those bookshelves mounted properly.
One side of the hallway
The other side of the hallway.
ETA: Seeing my bulletin board in these pictures made me change it to a framed print. (Apologies for the cell phone pic.)
First, some wider shots. The paint color is Martha Stewart "Orchid".
The rug came from Oaxaxa, MX when I visited there. The chair I found on ebay and picked up locally. Eventually I'd like to get it reupholstered - my kitties have not been kind to the original Naugahyde.
The large stainless steel cabinet is an old hospital blanket warmer that I found at a thrift store. It weighs about 500 pounds and I love it to death. Every time we move, my boyfriend gives that cabinet the evil eye.
Details:
This is the top of the stainless steel cabinet. The painting was done by a friend of mine and given to me for my birthday.
I JUST got this cabinet at an antique store. I've done some research, and I believe it dates to between 1880 and 1900. I LOVE it! It's the best thing I've purchased since the blanket warmer. Now I'm on the hunt for an appropriate small, light bookcase to replace the black ones since I just bought this cabinet yesterday.
The doors slide!
It still has the original hardware (although probably not the original key - wrong color).
My mom and grandmother, circa 1946.
Everyone needs a sock monkey! The door drawing I purchased in Zanzibar and the spiderwebs are from this guy.
Shells in the window came home with me from the Cayman Islands - legally, even!
The big birds over my desk.
Glass balls in the window. The yellow one, I got at an art and wine festival in CA; the orange came from Skansen in Stockholm.
And then, the hallway leading to my office:
The ENTIRE APARTMENT was painted this color when I moved in. Horrors. I'm from New York - can't let that long hallway space be wasted! It took a while with a stud finder to get those bookshelves mounted properly.
One side of the hallway
The other side of the hallway.
ETA: Seeing my bulletin board in these pictures made me change it to a framed print. (Apologies for the cell phone pic.)