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#GIRLBOSS GLAM ROOM UPDATE

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You may have previously seen my blog post NEW YEAR, NEW #GIRLBOSS OFFICE SPACE .  I had a personal goal of finishing within a certain time frame.  Since last year, I have made a few additions!  I decided to replace the antique vanity I had with a more modern white dream vanity with lighting – shown above!

I also decided to pull the white furry Pottery Barn chair out of the garage and get her recovered in charcoal gray faux fur and I love the way it turned out!

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The office/makeup room is my happy place!  One of my next big projects is cleaning out the garage by summer…so when I went outside to stare at it and see if the mess was still there…I realized that I had a fabulous yellow and pink vintage painting that my mom bought about 35 years ago! It was originally in our formal living room which was entirely white, except for a canary yellow jacquard sofa, I brought it into my office area of the room and it went perfectly!  I love using things that are old family pieces!

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I do also have a solid brass headboard that I may make into a guest futon/sofa thing…but I’m running out of room so we shall see!

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The makeup vanity helps me out so much! The drawers are large enough to have everything organized and it really doesn’t get messy very often. The problem is that my pets – especially Blanca have decided they will argue over who gets to sit with me while I get ready. The know my routine, so the minute I get out of the shower, they are crowded together in my chair.  Bella will whine until she gets a boost so it’s unnerving. I may decide to get a bench later so everyone can fit.

Below, you can see my desk, which I had to have so I could have a solid place all my own to work from.  Bosscat Beauty is my new home based business that requires a lot of screen time right now since we primarily sell online and are working on bidding wholesale accounts and more product development.

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This office/beauty room is my happy place where I can think, plan and build my life. It helps out so much to be able to have a spot to prepare for each day and focus on what I am working on at my desk or make as big a mess as I want to on my beauty table and it doesn’t bring me any unsolicited commentary from my husband.  I’ve even been known to be in such a rush to get out the door, that I’ve left a half full coffee cup on my vanity until I get back home 10 hours later. Oh, the freedom! He doesn’t come in here so my personal shortcomings are not as obvious. In the rest of the house, inaction like that would require commentary!

I will share more updates to other areas soon!

 

 

 

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Home Office ReVamp

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    ….and then there was the “home office” room to contend with.

     This room has some walls that are 12 feet high, was all white, has an inversion table in it (which is one of those things you hang upside down like a bat on, in order to stretch out your spine and muscles.)  This belongs to the athlete in the house and will not be going anywhere, period.  The room also comes with some very dated off white leather sofas which I do not like. At all. Period.  Additionally, there is a computer workstation to deal with.  

      Unfortunately my husband loves the sofas so in light of all the other changes I’ve made…this  sofa debate will just have to wait, so I had to work with it.  Here is  a  photo of the room after I’d already added the framed lion print, end table, coffee table and lamps, but before actually beginning the painting process.   You can see that even with adding pieces, the room is still “blah.” 

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     I would normally never place a sofa in front of a window however, in this case, I am dealing with one entire wall taken up with a huge TV(another debate) as well as the conversion table contraption so I am having to do the best I can to fix up the man cave.

     This room flows now with the rest of the house and it’s functional and cozy.  He likes the warm, manly colors and doesn’t mind the dark brown and black animal print window swag or pillow!  


     The colors I used here were “Francesca” by Martha Stewart  for the black  and “Molasses” by Eddie Bauer Home. The goal was to use serious paint colors in order to compensate for the unstructured, bright creme leather set.  (Did I mention yet that I  do not care for these???)  A side note would be that if you’ve never picked out paint colors…it’s very hard.  It never looks  the same as the tiny swatch, so if you don’t trust yourself, just use one of the recommended design colors at the paint center you go to.  Each brand  has interior design cards in different hues, that mix and match great interior colors and give you good ideas.   

     Again, these colors throughout this house are masculine and warm, which will go great with dark wood flooring which I plan to have installed in the future, which will look expensive and be highly durable as well which is important since the long term plan is to turn this home into another rental property.                                   

 The next two rooms will be great fun,and include a total master bedroom overhaul !

-September 29,2012

–SDS

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