The Cool House: Into the lion's den...

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Into the lion's den...


Normally The Guy's office looks like a cross between a recycling centre and the inside of a vacuum cleaner bag; papers are "sorted" into plies and allowed to settle until they've accumulated at least 4 cms dust; found objects, such as cairns (the stones not the dogs) will be strategically placed on the piles to mark who knows what along with cables, chargers, business cards and throat lozenges. Woe betide anyone who attempts to clean up this mess, and so, balanced carefully on a pile of papers or books, will be a duster, or swiffer cloth - maybe both - that he promised to use a week month ago to alleviate the worst of the dirt.
Yesterday I declared it a health hazard and took advantage of his absence to clean up. I also gifted him an assortment of box files and desk folders and sorted his documents and resources into easy to find sections. Well, I'll be able to find them, he may not be used to my filing system...


Now he has a tidy desk it's time to prettify the room - this Larry Laslo fabric Signify in Carnelian from Robert Allen is the exact same shade of red as the pendant lamp and is masculine enough to appeal to The Guy. It will be turned into roman shades by the Awesome Designer as soon as she's finished working on another little project for me...

3 comments:

Nadine @ BDG said...

An incredibly brave woman to tackle that project-- now how many rooms are we renovating simultaneously? Nesting are we?

modernemama said...

Just tired of the frat house aesthetic!

Why S? said...

I have the same organizational method to my office (both at home and work). Not saying I'm proud of it. It's just my nature.

I love that fabric. The shades will be super. He'll thank you. He will.