Office mess

I got the very expensive plaster pieces for my Analysis of Form class yesterday. They are quite large and I am not sure where they are going to live. The guy is very creepy. He has a ponytail. Why? I quite like the lady, however, she has a very serene look about her and I can imagine keeping her after the class is over. I am trying to clean and reorganize my office in preparation to paint the walls and shelves and I am finding it to be a bit overwhelming.



I have been reorganizing my books and trying to really get rid of crap I don't need or use in an effort to figure out what kind of storage I really need. I have this fantastic set of shelves along one of the walls, as you can see in the picture and I want to create a desk type set-up that will run along the wall under the shelves. I want to create two, or three, dedicated areas for my computer, someplace to paint, and someplace to sew. In a perfect world, I would like to be able to keep my sewing machine and painting stuff out all of time without having to drag it all out every time I want to use something and put them all away again. I know that's being somewhat lazy, but I really believe it's important to have the things you use frequently to be easily accessible, the theory then being you will use them even more. That dark brown desk-ish thing you see under the shelving is pretty much useless and it is BOLTED to the wall or the floor, or something. I am going to have to get in there with a crowbar and rip it out!

I want to use the color scheme from this Pottery Barn room: red and ivory (and black). I think painting the shelves ivory will brighten them up so much, and I have always wanted to have a red room. I already have the curtains, which I bought last year for the living room, which are ivory and black. (They are actually the curtain version of this Waverly bedding at Target)

It looks as though I am going to have a bunch of space left on my shelves and I want to have some sort of box solution to hide all of my crap. The problem is that the shelf cubbies are such odd sizes I can't find boxes that fit. I was thrilled when I saw fabric boxes in Amy Butler's In Stitches ( a MUST HAVE book in my opinion) . So! Now the plan is to make custom boxes to hide my junk. I also have a closet that is crammed with yarn and fabric that is going to have to be dealt with, but the great thing about closets is that they have doors, and those doors can be shut. Out of sight, out of mind.

On a completely unrelated topic, I am SERIOUSLY starting to HATE blogger and am considering going back to doing it all by hand.