Sewing Room/Home Office Update

 

A view of a room with green paint covering wood paneling, floral wallpaper, two white desks, and a window.
Sewing Room Update - January 2025

        After living in this house for a full year, my goal for this past January was to give my sewing room/home office a major cosmetic update. When we moved in, paneling had already been painted white and we just gave it a refreshed coat of white on the walls and ceilings to make it feel like a clean blank slate. I needed time to decide what my vision for the room was - it took a whole year but after fantasizing about this wallpaper from Schoolhouse for most of that time, I finally pulled the trigger. Here's a reminder of what it looked like when we moved in:

A view of the same room but with white walls and no furnishings.
Sewing Room Before - December 2023

    And this is what it looked like right before starting this project:

The same room with white walls, two white desks, and other furnishings.
Sewing Room Before - January 2025

    The wallpaper in here was somehow even more challenging than the first time we wallpapered in the upstairs hallway. This time, we were working with traditional wallpaper rather than pre-pasted so it was a whole new learning curve on how to get the right amount of glue on the paper and how to smooth it once it was on the wall. We also struggled more with cutting the rolls to the right length and matching up the patterns. We actually almost ran out of paper at the end and had to use a square in the upper right hand corner that does not perfectly match the pattern, but no one has been able to see it without us pointing it to them so far. 

    For this room, I also got to put my sewing skills to work and made some simple curtains to cover the lower half of the window and I'm very pleased with how they turned out. The other DIY project for this room was spray painting the Ikea storage cart next to the desk from black to a royal blue that matches the wallpaper. Otherwise, I just sourced some shelves and a new desk chair for myself. I'm currently working on artwork for the wall opposite of the window. I got some great prints while at Kew Gardens in London this May but haven't had a chance to get them framed yet.

A close up view of the white desk and floral wallpaper. The top of the blue storage cart is visible on the left with sewing supplies stored on top.
A closer look at the desk area and wallpaper


Two wooden shelves on a green paneled wall with sewing books, a wicker basket, and other decorations. White and yellow half-curtains are framing a window on the right.
The shelves and homemade curtains




Location: Columbus, OH, USA

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