Home office à la Hege

A while back I mentioned that I’ve done up my Mum’s study or home office. I say I, but all I’ve really done is to tell her and my Dad what to do and where to put it, as they are in Norway and I am in France.. so, after a lot of emails and photos! Here’s the result…

The ceiling, walls and window were painted white to make the room brighter. The floor is new laminate as it old lino flooring was a bit tired looking. The new desk is a lot smaller and used to be an old kitchen table. It was also painted white and so was my Granpa’s old apple box – now used as a bookshelf. The new reproduction Eames chair was a Christmas present from me, as I sell them 🙂
 
So, other than white, my Mum chose a colour she liked and she ended up with light turquoise (which is also one of my favorites as you may have noticed.. ) The turquoise industrial zinc lamp was bought new.

Magnus did a hand print in turquoise for Christmas that looks lovely on one of the new shelves. We also painted a large E grey and put some scrapbooking tags on it and on one Magnus wrote MORMOR (Gran in English) 🙂 he’s only 4, so he did really well 🙂

Next to the large E there’s an old oil lamp that my Dad found in the garage and it had some turquoise on it, so we just had to use it!

The armchair was a FRETEX.no find (2nd hand shop) for 7€ and the plate rack a FINN.no find (also 2nd hand) for 15€. We’ll be replacing the knobs shortly.

Some before photos of what used to be an office and a storage room at the same time.. 

This cupboard used to belong to my Gran and hasn’t been in use for years. So it was nice to be able to fit it in to the new office.

BEFORE

AFTER