8.28.2009

Before and After: Smallest Home Office....EVER!


Ok so the office was a mess, I needed to do a little reorganization.  
So three days of sorting and organizing then put it back together. 




So, mind you this office is about 6 foot wide by 12 feet long. Tiny!! 
It has a built in closet unit on the one side, and and attic door on the opposite side.  
I tried to color it with art, since I rent this house, I do not want to put to much mulla into it! Trust me, if I could of busted out a cork wall and blackboard wall I would have. 

AFTER

My Desktop, which is a dinosaur.  Covered by one of my favorite finds of all time. The "Computer Dust Cloth" by: The Nonexistent LUDDITE Cloth Besmirching Company
....I found this in the bottom of a solids fabric bin at a housewares auction.  I got it for a song! 


I love the circus, and this vintage european Anderton and Rouland's never used circus poster rocks!! This also in a box lot.....Are you catching my drift- you have do dig!!!! hehe I love to dig. 

As a window treatment, as I look for the perfect fabric to make a curtain out of, I used some of my original award ribbons. 

Below is the Art I chose to feature in the room. 
First is a collection of four pieces. 
From far left clockwise:
"1960's Fashion Model" by: Glenn Belluscio
"Jungle Cat" by: Suzie Mohler
"Dorthy" by: unknown
All three of these pieces are done by a group of artist in Southern Ohio who I just cant get enough of.  They exhibit at the Bryn Du Mansion here in Granville, Ohio once a year.  
It is a artist group entitled The Rendville Art Works. 
They are a collective artist colony of mentally and physically handicapped artists.  
They just capture me.  At the show, there is a line to get the works.  It is like running to get the hottest toy at Christmas.  I have been lucky to get these three pieces over the past few years.  Others I have given as gifts but these each hold a special place in my heart. 

Finally the last painting is a watercolor by Helen Kasserman in 1940.  
I found it on the floor under a trunk in an antique store.  I LOVE IT!! This meeting of puppets still life is just exquisitely wonderful.



Finally, my baby.  This print is a mystery to me. I discovered it in a box lot estate auction folded up.  It is two pieces and each and measures approx 5x6 ft.   It is so whimsical, I want to be a part of this world, and it serves as a great inspiration of color and laughter on those long stressful days of work.  I hope you enjoy as much as I do.