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Office Updates and Our New Desks

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I wanted to share our new office updates including our new home office desks from World Market!

This post is in partnership with World Market and contains affiliate links. As always, all opinions are my own.

I made some really great progress in our renovated office over the weekend, and I thought I would share the fresh updates with you today.

If you’ve missed my prior office updates, be sure to check out my initial office changes (which includes ‘before’ photos), my office design board, as well as my office chair round-up. I know most of you loved the original space, but function had to win out this time around, and we needed to make the room a joint his/hers office. This required adding a second office desk area to the space.

If you recall, here’s how the room looked right before we moved in.

French doors leading into the office opened looking in from the entryway.

A white leather couch in front of the window in the office with a wooden shelving unit on the adjacent wall.

A rocking chair is in front of the sliding door leading to the courtyard.

And now, here’s how the office currently looks. We’re using our existing elegant linen chairs temporarily behind the desks until we find something else.

Office with Hale Navy Blue Walls and Wood Desk with white and green accents.

I sold my old desk yesterday on a local Facebook page! Which means I was also scrambling to clean out all of the crap I was storing in it. More desk, more problems. For reals. The photos below only show about a fourth of the items I took out of my old desk.

Random items I pulled out of my old desk in order to make way for our new campaign desks.

Office items on the floor of the office with a cat beside it.

But, once it sold, I was quick to finish assembling the new ones and get the space styled up pretty. I also had to paint the remaining grids on the wall with the new bold Benjamin Moore Hale Navy paint. I was ready to move on with the new office design plans!

About our new desks. I fell in love with these wood campaign desks the second I saw them. Not only are they stylish and look like a much more expensive alternative, but the size is perfect for what we needed.  The x-legs made it a done deal! They are intentionally smaller and won’t let me hoard nearly as much stuff. There is one drawer on each of them for smaller, essential office items. Each end also has a pull-out ledge to extend the length or use for other side projects. I was also contemplating some of these mix and match desks, but ultimately, the rustic solid wood won out.

A white tufted armchair in front of the desk with a white vase on the desk and branches of green leaves in the vase.

Kurtis will not drop the whole ‘I refuse to use a chair unless it has arms’ argument, so I’m back to the drawing board. Many of the stylish desk chairs I posted last week didn’t have arms, and after he saw them, he vetoed all but one of them (the $400+ one). I brought our neutral dining room chairs in to see if they were the right height, and they seemed perfect! But, our linen chairs that were already in the room (as a seating area) looked better for photos 😉 Funny enough, I measured my prior soft blue linen chair, these off-white linen chairs, and our dining chairs and the seats are all the same height. So bottomline, I think it’s more about the squish factor and how high they sit actually vs. how high they measure. I’m hoping to find a good office chair option shortly.

On Kurtis’ side of the room, I’ve tried to keep things a little more masculine. Since he’ll only be using the space occasionally when he works from home, we decided we’d also make his side the shredding/mail/printing station. When he does work from home, he’ll bring his laptop in and work from the open space. He tends to like things a bit more industrial, so I added this concrete and wood ampersand, and picked a paper tray with a bit more of an industrial vibe. The tray is perfect for storing extra printer paper and housing the mail until I get a chance to sort/shred it.

A wooden desk with an off white armchair in front of it and a navy wall behind it. These is a white pitcher with greenery on the desk.

On the office desk is a white vase, a wooden & sign and a small white and glass table lamp.

A wooden beachy & sign.

My side is obviously much more beachy and feminine (hello pineapples!) and houses my permanent computer tower and monitor. I also added a recycled glass vase (my design staple) with some earthy gingko leaves because I always need more blue and green in a space. As a side note, I might be one of the last people on earth that prefers an old-school PC and monitor to a laptop or tablet. Again, function had to win over looks for my space. I’m trying to discreetly hide my tower behind the curtain.

White ceramic pineapple vases on the wooden desk in the office.

Office Desk Styling with Pineapples, Recycled Glass Vase and Gingko Leaves.

Oh, and I came across this art at World Market that was nearly a dead ringer for my DIY art I have in the space!

I still have quite a bit to do in this room in the long-term, but I’m so happy with the updated progress so far. It definitely feels much more my coastal beachy style now. It also works for both of us to use, unlike it did in the past. I’ll continue to keep you updated with future changes!

GET THE LOOK OF THE OFFICE:

A big thank you to World Market for partnering with me on this post today. Be sure to check out their amazing selection of home office furniture along with all the great items they currently have on sale!

I have a really exciting chair makeover I worked on over the weekend, as well, so it was definitely a busy one. Check back Friday to check out this top secret project 🙂 Have a great week!

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  1. Abby @ Just a Girl and Her Blog says

    August 15, 2016 at 6:49 am

    It’s looking gorgeous, Sarah! I love the changes you’ve made– those desks are beautiful!

    -Abby =)

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  2. sherry hart says

    August 15, 2016 at 7:05 am

    Looks great! I could not be in the same office with my hubby! I love those desk so much and the hale navy walls!

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  3. Jenny@EvolutionofStyle says

    August 15, 2016 at 7:10 am

    It looks STUNNING! I’m so smitten with the navy wall/wood desk combination – so classic and timeless. Love it!

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  4. Kate says

    August 15, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Wow it looks so amazing that I want to replicate the entire room, including the temporary chairs! Just a thought, if you did need more storage, you might be able to build a small cabinet to fit perfectly inside one of the square moldings. Paint it navy and it may just disappear into the wall! Not that the room needs any changes. It looks awesome.

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  5. Jenn @ Loveland Lodge says

    August 15, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    Love it! Looking great – agree with you on desks. The less space I have to store stuff, the better!

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    • classic•casual•home says

      August 15, 2016 at 10:57 pm

      Love the lines on those desks. And your pretty pineapples. Looking forward to Friday!

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  6. Chelsea says

    August 16, 2016 at 9:32 am

    It’s gorgeous, Sarah! I love the wood campaign desks! So smart going smaller to hoard less stuff. The struggle is real! Also the navy wall is EVERYTHING!

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  7. Erin @ Her Heartland Soul says

    August 16, 2016 at 9:40 am

    I LOVE what you’re doing with the space!! Anytime you’re selling furniture, just lemme know! haha Josh and I just started house hunting which means lot of rooms to furnish soon!

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    • cindy hattersley says

      August 16, 2016 at 10:02 am

      Can’t wait to see your chair on Friday! I love those WM desks. They are so great for a small space! We put one in our Studio.

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  8. kim says

    April 26, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    Lovely! Where are the curtains from?

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    • Sarah says

      May 2, 2017 at 7:48 am

      Thank you Kim! I actually made the curtains 🙂

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      • Brandy Wilson says

        November 10, 2017 at 9:33 pm

        Where did you get the fabric for the curtains? And do you happen to remember the name of the fabric?

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        • Sarah says

          November 14, 2017 at 8:56 am

          The fabric is Windsor Smith Riad in the clove color.

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  9. Traci @ Beneath My Heart says

    May 3, 2017 at 8:26 am

    It’s GORGEOUS, Sarah!! I am getting ready to re-do my office, so I love this inspiration! Love the navy blue wall!!

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  10. Brittany says

    May 7, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    What is the paint color name of your navy wall?

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    • Sarah says

      May 8, 2018 at 8:24 am

      It’s Benjamin Moore Hale Navy!

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  11. Lisa M Garcia says

    August 7, 2018 at 11:39 am

    What is the color on the other walls? It looks like a greige color. I am doing my office in Navy and love the other color you used on the adjacent walls. Please let me know. This office is gorgeous.

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    • Sarah says

      August 7, 2018 at 12:02 pm

      Thank you! The color is Behr Castle Path 🙂

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  12. Susan says

    August 29, 2022 at 11:05 am

    What colour did you put on the other walls to coordinate with Halle navy?

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