Over the summer I got a good push of motivation to work on my craft room / office: I painted the walls a celery color, I bought a funk teal lamp, a large trestle work desk, some cork boards, and hung some curtains. Then I just got stuck. I became unsure of my choices, of my color scheme, and we had other huge projects we began tackling in later summer.
I had some beginning ideas of a funky, but mature; feminine, but not girly room. But I just couldn’t find the exact inspiration I needed to push me to confidently finish. I swear there is only like 5 craft room / feminine offices floating around in the blogosphere.
A walk through the Lowe’s paint department last night, I finally saw the confirmation I needed. A part of their Audubon Collection is the Grandeur assortment….. exactly what I was thinking, but hadn’t seen put together.
Cool blues, celery greens, deep turquoises. Elegant, but casual. Feminine, but mature. Bold, but clean.
Here’s what I’m wanting to do:
I was trying to be original and not get a white craft desk, but my gamble busted when Target’s Madison Trestle Desk in Antique Walnut turned out to be a Self-Tanner Overkill Orange Walnut. I guess I’m having that white desk after all.
The plan is to paint it a soft, milky white and personalize it with a giant monogram decal, a la Living With Lindsay:
Perhaps using one of Empressive Designs’ decals
Then I want to fill my IKEA RIBBA picture frame shelves with all sorts of fun things encased in teal, silver, and walnut frames:
Some embroidery art, a la White Nest
Some button art, a la Letter Perfect Designs
Some modern quill art, a la Yulia Brodskaya
And somewhere I want to find room for a ceramic elephant, hopefully vintage, but mass produced would do. Just cuz.
I’m digging these Audubon prints from AllPosters.com:
A smaller framed White Crowned Finch
A large framed Louisiana Heron
Eventually, replace the builder light with something a little fancier, like this one from Overstock.com
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