Take A Sit

Since I gave up my office space back in November I've been working really hard to try to make this tiny corner of my room work as an office area. Not necessarily the easiest thing I've ever done. I've got the wall art down for the most part (may still tweak the stuff around the mirror) and the organization is okay for right now. The problem?

The chair. My parents picked it up for me during one of their IKEA trips at a really good deal, it used to be the display I believe judging by the hole in the top of it where info used to be. The thing of it is that it is not the most comfortable chair ever.

I tried to dress it up with a cute pillow that my Mom so fantastically made for me but it still isn't exactly what I want.

So I've been pouring over Pinterest (see? I justify the hours I spend on that site!) trying to find some inspiration and ideas for a new office chair that would be trendy, small, and easily tucked away. No gigantor leather spinny chair is going in my chic master! Here's some of what I've found so far...

These guys from westelm.com are totally adorable and vintage-y! I dunno that they'd be very comfortable but I do love the white one... ahhh...

Maybe one of these white chairs would be cool too! They have a see through back sort of so they wouldn't look like they take up as much space and I could put some fun fabric as the cushion... (white would be a bad idea) I could probably find at least one at a thrift store or something in town and paint it. I can paint!

{source} These are totally cool! Again probably not fantastically comfortable but I love the clear ones! I think they are way fun. They have a vintage shape with a modern appeal. Could be just what I'm looking for!

Hmm.... decisions decisions! I think I will have to go thrift storing this weekend to see what I can find in terms of getting a new chair for my office corner. The semester starts next Tuesday! Eek!

Seems so Flourescent

Since I'm currently working on the kitchen and painting the cabinets and all that good stuff it recently came to my attention that one important part of the whole plan was missing. Any ideas?

You guessed it! The monstrosities attached to my ceiling by the cute little sky light. They are awful. And plus only one of them works (I still haven't figured that out). I've been looking through different options and ideas for replacing those light fixtures but I haven't found the perfect one yet. Here's a few that I thought of:

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 I was thinking to maybe do two drum lights where the two boxes currently are. I was thinking this might work better with the angled ceiling but allow me to bring them a little lower? Possibly?

I am fully aware that I lack any real skills in the paint program. But it gives you a general idea of what I was thinking. lol.

Or I could just do some task/track lighting... which would be an easy out I think...

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Does anyone have any suggestions for some good ceiling lights that aren't too expensive, allow for plenty of light, look good, and can hang on an angled ceiling? This girl is totally stumped! All I know is that the ugly box fluorescent have got-ta-go!

Finally! Paint!

I may be the queen of all things Slack this last couple of weeks but! I do have proof that I have the paint and the means to do the cabinets! After I go to the dentist tomorrow I shall have the time too! I'm so excited! 

I bought Glidden in Snow Swan (or something like that) because I didn't want it to look cheap.

And I started a little section next to my pretty new dishwasher. Which I will have you know actually gets the dishes clean! It's very exciting.

The doors are all down and will be painted tomorrow! I'll post up pictures along the way! 

Bye Bye uglio kitchen!!

I hope everyone is ready for some serious changes! Yay!