View of my finished-ish home office! A couple of sets of cabinets, a custom window seat built into a bay window, a record player, and a small desk in the center on top of a fun, floral rug.

There’s still a lot to do in my #diy home office, but it’s *finally* starting to become a functional room again!

Loving how the rug really ties the room together. 😏

I still need to make the built-ins look more… built-in. Paint touchups, floating desk, trim, & window seat doors are all next too.

Wide-angle view of my home office DIY project. On the left is a dark blue window seat built into a bay window. The back wall is a deep fuchsia with a separated pair of matching fuchsia cabinets and white upper caninets. The countertops are birch butcher block. A third piece of butcher block is leaning against the wall, in between the two lower cabinets. It will soon be a floating desk that gets mounted in that spot. On the right is a wall with arched alcoves that are painted the same blue inside as my window seat. The floors are a dark, warm brown wood laminate. The baseboards are still missing. The ceiling has three levels of height that stair step up higher towards the center. The highest level is painted a soft pink and has a gold chandelier hanging from it.

The floors: DONE! ✅

My husband pulled off a miracle and got the rest installed between online meetings & work calls.

We even got my rug and a little desk put in, so that I could play #dnd for the first time in here 🥺

9.5 months of planning and #diy work, and its finally my own space again!

Also trying to figure out what to do with the toe kicks. There’s some tiny nails sticking out that I need to remove, and I guess I can just fill the holes and call it a day. But also weighing the options of painting or maybe wallpapering it (doing wallpaper as a backsplash, see pinned post ). #diy

View of the corner of my home office. On the left is a custom-built windowseat. The doors are missing on the cabinetry of the seat, but the frame of it is painted the same deep teal blue color I used on the opposite wall (not pictured). On the right, one of my lower cabinets is in frame. It is a deep raspberry color with gold and mother-of-pearl pulls and handles. The handles have a butterfly wing on either side. It is topped with a maple butcher block countertop. The floor looks ridiculous because it is not installed yet. It’s got a special pad called an underlayment on it, which is shiny and silver. The laminate wood flooring will go on top of it. Hopefully soon!

#diy home office update:

- Hard to see from the backlit photo, but the 2nd coat of paint is on the window seat! Leaning more to that dark & moody fairytale vibe.

- Flooring is now ~50% installed 😍

- Also 👀 those outlet covers! They make me so happy.

I agree with others about a lawyer first. And in the meantime she should document everything and try to discretely back up any digital evidence someplace that work can’t remove her access to. I’m so sorry to hear this is happening, absolutely horrifying. :(

Closeup of my hand holding an espresso martini. The drink is dark with a nice layer of beige foam and a single coffee bean floating on top.

Espresso Martini with my homemade coffee liqueur! 🍸

#cocktail #cocktails #martini #espressomartini #coffee

View of dark wood laminate flooring in the early stages of being installed in my home office floor. I’m not a huge fan of laminate flooring. It’s great on a budget for sure, but since this is a creative space (and we have kids), I’m not expecting it to last forever. My husband has long dreamed of real hardwood throughout the house. But that’s definitely a “someday” project — maybe even after the kids are grown. The wall behind where the flooring starts is painted dark blue green and framed with light linen white arches. The other wall in view is a deep fuchsia with matching lower cabinetry, topped with maple butcher block, and above it is a linen white upper cabinet. They all have golden handles inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

Flooring time! Can’t believe how close we are to actually being done.

We’re doing the floors and window seat paint this week. (It will be the same color as the arch wall).

Next is the floating desk with white bead board above, lots of trim, and I can officially move my office back in! 😳 #diy

I feel like the glue is the reinforcement / insurance. Screws add a ton of strength by themselves. There’s not many cases where I’d use glue alone… projects like cutting boards or dovetailing would use glue at most. But my experience is limited to more basic things, so I’m probably biased 😅

Absolutely not an expert but we tend to use glue in addition to screws (rather than as a substitute). But we avoid glue whenever possible for the same reason of repair.

We’re currently custom-building a window seat and might use glue and nails on any trim, since it’ll be a high traffic area.

Close-up of mother-of-pearl and gold knobs on fuchsia cabinets. The handle on the drawer has a butterfly wing on each side. The knobs have an intricate looped pattern with a diamond shape in the middle.

A wider angle shot of the same cabinet, with a matching set to the right. The uppers are a soft linen white instead of fuchsia. The cabinet tops are birch butcher block. There’s a third piece of butcher block, meant to be a floating desk in between the two lower cabinets. But it’s not attached yet, so it is currently leaning against the wall.

Hardware is up! 😱

#diy #interiordesign #homeoffice #anthropologie

View of a home office under construction. There is no flooring yet, but the walls are painted rich, deep fuchsia and dark blue with soft linen white accents and arches. The ceiling is a cheerful light strawberry pink with a gold chandelier, and there are two pairs of built-in upper (white) and lower (fuchsia) cabinets with butcher block tops. A window seat, still made of raw wood, is built into a large bay window.

A gold and mother of pearl butterfly cabinet pull has been drilled into a wall, near a corner. The cords from a set of blinds are wrapped around the back of the butterfly to keep them elevated and out of the reach of small children.

So many new updates on my #DIY home office!

✅ audio cable run in walls
✅ cabinets installed
✅ butcher block cut and sealed ✅ window seat designed and built (minus the doors)

I’ve also shortened and tied up my blinds cords so the toddler can’t reach them (although he’s not allowed in here yet haha)

View of empty cabinets installed. The lowers are fuchsia to match the wall, and the uppers are a soft off-white.

Uppers are up!

Spent most of the day ripping up staples, carpet tack strips, and removing all of the baseboards.

But things are starting to feel very real now!

#diy

View of the corner of my home office buildout. The left wall is a fuchsia purple with matching (but uninstalled) lower cabinets underneath. In between the two lowers are the two upper cabinets, painted a light creamy color. None of the doors are attached yet. The right wall is a deep ocean blue separated by archways. A gold chandelier with four frosted, round bulbs hangs from a pink multi-tiered ceiling. The floor shows raw plywood subfloor where the carpet has recently been torn away and thrown out.

Goodbye old dog-piss-filled carpets! My nose will NOT miss you!! 🤮

And hello beautiful, messy subfloor. ✨

The vision is slowly but surely coming to life!

#diy #homeoffice #interiordesifn

Photo of my home office interior. Four empty cabinet bases and their doors are strewn about with fresh coats of paint drying on them. The lowers are a deep berry fuchsia color, while the uppers are a neutral off-white.

More than 2 months (and 1 mostly-recovered wrist injury later), and the cabinet painting is finally complete!

Y’all, this took FOUR coats of paint to do by hand. 😭

Next up: drilling hardware holes, and removing the baseboards and nasty carpets for some secret cable runs. 🕵️‍♀️

#diy #interiorsesifn

A photo of my home office, under construction. Empty cabinetry shells are scattered around the room with the front doors all spread out on the floor. They are drying with two coats of primer on them.

A closeup of the hardware for my cabinetry. Round knobs and a wide handle framed in butterfly wings, all in gold with intricate mother of pearl inlay.

Priming takes forever when you don’t have a sprayer! 🙃 I am still hoping for a professional-ish finish, using a “dry rolling” technique I found online.

The primer absolutely needs 2 coats, as dry rolling picks up most of the paint back up. Hope the slow and steady approach will be worthwhile. #diy

Aww no worries at all! Honestly, I feel the same a lot of the time. Sometimes this app is buggy and other times I think it’s just me not getting it 😂

A large printed piece of artwork in a gold frame. It shows a group of creepy individuals in whimsical, lacy outfits spilling out of an ancient and gnarled tree. They are peering down at a peasant woman who seems to have been caught in the middle of foraging in the forest. It is an overcast day. The people in the tree look human, ethereal, and very dangerous. Their expressions range from narcissistic elegance, to villainous intrigue, to rage. The peasant woman is shocked and looks like she’s frozen mid-step. I dunno what happens to her, but I’m guessing nobody ever saw her again. Oh and the art style is a delightful mix of painterly strokes and stunningly delicate details. You can make out blood vessels on the back of the woman’s hand, while some of the tree branches are created using a single paint stroke.

Because there is some light bouncing off from the glass of my picture frame, which obscures some of the art, this is a digital version of the same artwork.

This is just a closeup of the same fairies I described in the first image.

So when anyone hears me talking about fairies, THIS is what I mean!!

This piece (“Fairies and the Peasant Girl” by Yuliya Litvinova) has haunted me *in the best way* since I first saw it ~2018. I’ve always dreamed of owning a print, and now I do! #art #fae

Link: www.artstation.com/artwork/JlaRPA

Here’s a glimpse into the process behind "The Light We Carry," a new piece for my solo show at Haven Gallery opening this Saturday! It began as an underpainting on an 18×24 inch copper panel.

Thanks so much!! It feels like it’s never gonna get done sometimes, but just gotta keep taking these baby steps. 😊

Ahh it turned out so cute!! I’ve always wanted to try embroidery. Herbs sound like a really fun starter project!

A photograph of a fiery, cloudy sunset. The sky is a pale blue at the bottom, and a rich periwinkle blue at the top. The clouds are a dark lavender purple that have been dip-dyed in neon shades of pink and coral. It looks like it would taste really good. The rooflines of houses are dark silhouettes along the bottom of the photo.

Last night’s sunset!

I was late putting the baby to bed, but when I saw that telltale lavender glow radiating from down the hall, we dropped everything to run outside and just take it all in for a few minutes.

I love how it makes everything feel candy-coated IRL. 😍

Got 1 of the 4 cabinets sanded today (excluding the doors). Phew. Sanding by hand is not my strong suit haha.

I could use an electric sander, but my prime sanding time is during the baby’s nap so I’m concerned about noise levels.

It’s only 4 cabinets though, so we will get there! 💪 #diy

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A large printed piece of artwork in a gold frame. It shows a group of creepy individuals in whimsical, lacy outfits spilling out of an ancient and gnarled tree. They are peering down at a peasant woman who seems to have been caught in the middle of foraging in the forest. It is an overcast day. The people in the tree look human, ethereal, and very dangerous. Their expressions range from narcissistic elegance, to villainous intrigue, to rage. The peasant woman is shocked and looks like she’s frozen mid-step. I dunno what happens to her, but I’m guessing nobody ever saw her again. Oh and the art style is a delightful mix of painterly strokes and stunningly delicate details. You can make out blood vessels on the back of the woman’s hand, while some of the tree branches are created using a single paint stroke.

Because there is some light bouncing off from the glass of my picture frame, which obscures some of the art, this is a digital version of the same artwork.

This is just a closeup of the same fairies I described in the first image.

So when anyone hears me talking about fairies, THIS is what I mean!!

This piece (“Fairies and the Peasant Girl” by Yuliya Litvinova) has haunted me *in the best way* since I first saw it ~2018. I’ve always dreamed of owning a print, and now I do! #art #fae

Link: www.artstation.com/artwork/JlaRPA

Side by side photos. The left image is of an abstract botanical patterned rug. The colors are teal, green, dark blue, orange, gold, pink and a pinkish burgundy red. It’s on a dark wood laminate floor. The other photo is the corner of an empty room (to be my home office). The left wall is a rich fuchsia purple. The right wall is dark blue-ish teal and framed in a small arch and a large arch. The arches and the lower levels of the ceiling are a light grayish white. The highest level of the ceiling is pink with a gold chandelier hanging from it. The four light bulbs are globe shaped and frosted.

My home office progress has been slow, but I’m gearing up for the next big push!

The dark fairytale art I ordered from INPRNT is out for delivery today (finally!! 😭) Not sure if the mat in my frame is cut right for it, so I may have to get that fixed before I can share. 🧚‍♂️

#diy #interiordesign

Sterling silver earrings

Black Eyed Susan dangles hand forged in sterling silver. These are one of a kind, and looking for a home! Let me know if they need to be yours 💛

Just wanted to say hi and thank you for the likes on my recent posts. 💖 I really love your work!! These earrings are so gorgeous.

I took a brief jewelry making course in college so I can only imagine the time and effort all of this takes. But it also seems like a lot of fun! 😍

Closeup of my hand holding a gold cabinet knob with mother of pearl inlay. The inlay is shaped like a large diamond in the center, curving inward on each edge. This leaves a gap between the outer perimeter of the knob and each side of the center diamond shape. These perimeters are filled with curvy triangle inlays, creating a border of 12 triangle-ish shapes around the whole knob.

Eeeeeeeeeee they’re actually heeeeeere!!!

FedEx came through only EIGHT DAYS EARLY (which is making me feel a tiny bit better about my art print from INPRNT being 3 days late. DHL of course, haha).

Gary Gianni

Oooh this looks really good!