Stylish Updates to Our Home Office!

Our home office has been a WRECK for the past several months – it’s the space we used to store everything going into our master bathroom addition from our new vanity (that sat there for months before it was installed) to the tile, bath hardware, accessories, and more. This was the scene on one of its more organized days during the reno:

With all four of us at home full-time and three of us needing a quiet work space, it was definitely time to reclaim it! Last week I cleaned the heck out of it and also added a few new updates. I wanted to lighten up the space and while I was initially thinking about changing the wall color, I decided I could stick with my much-loved dark walls and get that same lighter feel by swapping out the rug. I found the perfect rug for my space (plus a few other little pretties) on Wayfair where there’s a huge selection of on-trend updates. I’m excited to be partnering with them for today’s post to share my office’s newly refreshed look! Ready to see? (post includes affiliate links; full disclosure statement available {here})

After looking through tons of rug options, I ended up choosing {this gorgeous flatweave indoor/outdoor rug} that has the prettiest textured geometric pattern:

I wish I had made this simple rug swap years ago – it made such a huge difference to the look and feel of our office!

While I love jute rugs, the chunky nature of our old jute rug made it a little challenging to move our desk chair up and back from the desk – the flatweave construction of my new one makes is so much easier. I went with the 8 x 10 size which fills our room nicely with the back legs of our chair staying on the rug even when it’s fully pushed away from the desk.

(our office chair is no longer available but {this wingback chair} is similar)

Indoor-outdoor rugs like this one have come such a LONG way in the past few years. They use to all be thin and plasticky but now there are so many options that are stylish and soft on your feet. And how cute are the tassels on the end of mine?! – love them:

These are a few of my other favorite rugs that I saved as possible options for future makeover projects (as with everything else on Wayfair’s site, you get fast, free shipping on them when spending $49+) :

Click link to shop each rug:
1. Warlick Area Rug    2. Enloe Striped Cotton Rug    3. Wilsonville Tufted Wool Area Rug    4. Pittsfield Tufted Area Rug    5. Gunter Indoor/Outdoor Rug    6. Beaverton Tufted Wool Rug    7. Enloe Cotton Area Rug    8. Alba Gray Rug    9. Warlick Cream Area Rug

One of those future projects is adding an inexpensive table and chairs to our back porch so we can have some meals outside – my plan is to order {this blue and white outdoor rug} (the one in the middle of the graphic above) to that space. I love the design and think it would work beautifully with {this outdoor rug} that we have our lounge chairs on that would be next to it:

Ready to see the other smaller additions to our home office? You might have already noticed that I added {this garden stool} because I wanted a spot away from my laptop where I could rest a drink without risk of frying it with a spill:

My exact stool just went out of stock but {this garden stool is super similar} and I love {this stool} too. I also added some new plants to freshen up the space and went with something I’ve had decent luck with keeping alive in the past – succulents. I planted a group of them in {this gorgeous wood planter} (I lined it with plastic first) and am loving the look:

Cross your fingers for me that I can keep these beauties alive! My wood planter also comes in a larger size {here} that would make a beautiful table centerpiece. 

I added some new greenery to our shelves on the other side of our office too:

(brass ceiling light fixture is available {here}) 

How cute is {this ceramic llama planter}?! Love him!

I also added {this beautiful set of resin boxes} to our bookcase – I originally bought them for our bathroom and threw them up here temporarily but now I’m not sure where their final home will be because I love how they look against the black walls: 

The black and white canister to the right is one of a set of two that is currently out of stock but you can check for restocks {here}.

And one more thing to share that might be helpful if any of you have the same entryway rug problem that I did. The front door of our house in NC has a super low sweep on the bottom so it kept getting caught on our entryway rug (which wasn’t even all that thick).  I looked for the thinnest rug I could find and found {this flatweave blush & natural fringed rug}  – it’s so pretty! The only problem is that I decided to test drive it in our kitchen and now I’m not so sure I want to move it from this spot:

I adore the color and pattern of it and how it cheers up our kitchen for summer:

It’s super thin so I’m pretty sure it would be a win for our NC entryway and any similar spot with a low door sweep so thought I’d pass this find on since it took me a lot of time to find something thin enough that was also my style! 

Wayfair has tons of other on-trend options for updating your home from $39.99 (including many that are on sale now!) that you can check out {here}. What’s the next big project that you’re working on? I’m hoping to share the “after” of my most recent big one next weekend – our master bathroom addition! Be sure to sign up for my emails {here} so you don’t miss that post or the reveal of our closet makeover with IKEA products that will come shortly after that! I’m so excited to share it!

Have a great start to your week,

Paint Color: Benjamin Moore Nightfall

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