Home Office Ideas
Driftwood shape. Start by tracing and cutting out a base shape (like the sea horse here) from foam core, poster board or something sturdier like Homasote. Lay your driftwood pieces on top of your design and play around until you get them lined up in a way that fits — you may want to experiment with lining them up straight, making a crosshatch pattern or making them radiate from the center of your design. Small pieces of driftwood can be trimmed to fit with pruners or kitchen shears. When you’re ready, grab a hot-glue gun and start gluing!
Using 4-by-8 Douglas fir beams to frame the 8- by 11-foot space, Browne secured a construction safety net using I-hooks and an aircraft cable. Browne says the net has stretched out a little, but he finds it even more loungeworthy now. If Browne is working late, his two kids may walk over from the house to hang out in the loft while Dad works on the computer below. (One of Browne’s sons is shown enjoying the net here.) Right now they use a stepladder to reach the net, but a more permanent ladder is on the boards.
Knot as art. Who would have thought an old, crusty rope could make an interesting piece of wall art? Consult a knot-making book to learn a fancy knot or just play around until you are pleased with the shape, and hang the result on your wall.
Painted frames. If you want to fill up a wall on a tight budget and don’t mind a morning with a paint can, this could be right up your alley. Collect old frames at yard sales and paint them to match. Hung on the wall without glass here, they make a unique display for small 3D objects.
Stud space used as storage
Built in bed and storage somewhere in basement
White walls and white frames
Basement lighting: overhead lights with large basket fixtures. The baskets not only soften the lighting, but match the earthy aesthetic.
Use crab shells as wall art
Chandelier : write poems or adages on it
Adapt to fit structural posts in basement
Create contrast between styles. Like with a classical column in a contemporary setting, as shown here.
Create seating around the column base. Or even stretch a bench between two columns for an extra spot where people can take shoes off.
Storage between columns act as a room divider with an open, floating shelf system
Make a wine rack. Encase the column and add some cubbies, and you have a perfect spot to store wines. You could do something similar for shoes, CDs or anything else that could fit into cubbies.
embed column into a bookcase
Embed column in a display case
Wood wrapped around pole
Frame Saxon items (Trachts, table cloths, towels, crocheted doilies, etc.) on linen backgrounds.
basement bed in office?
Stump
Hang art with binder clips
Old crate shelving
Incorporate record albums into book rack
Basement idea--storage for records (cut table in half or get vintage record store display rack)
Geode drawer knobs
Frame chalkboards, bulletin boards, etc
Corrugated steel detailing for bookshelves?
Corrugated steel ceiling
Laminate artwork, maps, diplomas (or copies of them), etc//.
Hang wooden crates for shelves.
Saw off half a table to create a vanity. Or desk? Counter?
Charging station in a drawer
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