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Bedroom Office Ideas, Tips, and Designs

It’s not the best place in the house to have as an office space, because the work clutter can make the bedroom a bit of a stressful place (which can disrupt sleep). But here are a few quick tips and ideas for turning a bedroom into an office and making it a great working and sleeping area.

Top Bedroom Office Ideas and Design Tips

Fitting a Desk: You don’t really need to have much space in the bedroom to fit in a home office. A tiny, well organized desk up against the wall will do for most people as seen in picture (1). You can even combine the home office with existing bedroom furniture – like using a dresser that has a pull out or pull down tabletop (2). Or if you have more space in the bedroom, arrange the desk to face outwards so you’re not looking at a wall just like in pictures (3 – fitting a mirror makes the space feel larger) and (4).

Covering Up: Being able to close off the office space when it is not in use would be ideal. This can be done with curtains, screens, or placing book shelves in between the office space and the bed area.

Another idea is to fit the home office between closets (5), or inside a closet (6). This is a great space saver for smaller rooms. Have a look at our post for designs and ideas on fitting an office in a closet (aka a cloffice) anywhere in the house – Creating a Workspace At Home: Closet Office Ideas.

Storage: You’ll want to keep everything contained to one location as much as possible – so that you can also enjoy the room as a relaxing bedroom, and not just a work space. The wall above the desk can be made for great storage – by hanging wall shelves (7) or peg boards (8). A closet can be used to store work items, and the inside of the doors can have calendars, white boards, and pegboards fitted. In picture (9) a bench doubles as a filing cabinet, and hides all of the paper work when not in use.

Lighting: To make it a comfortable work space you’ll want to have a good amount of lighting. Setting up the desk by the window is a great idea as you’ll have tons of natural lighting during the day (10). Table lamps or having a track light fitted to the ceiling (one that can have the lights angled to different parts of the bedroom) work well during the night. 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10

Here are some more home office posts to get ideas from:

March 6, 2013 in Bedroom, Home Office

Cool Bedroom Ideas for Kids

Beds: You have to check out our post on all the different kinds of bunk beds (Bunk Bed Ideas for an Awesome Kids Room). There are some amazing bunk bed designs as seen in pictures (1) and (2), from built in beds, ones with slides, or a loft bunk bed (desk below the bed) – which are all ideal for small rooms or even large ones. There is something magical that comes with sleeping in a bunk bed.

Lighting Up The Room: Create a space/astronaut inspired sky by fitting fiber optics into the ceiling to create stars and constellations (3). A simpler way of doing this is to just stick glow in the dark stars.

How about letting the kids control the color of the room by having a mood light, like the Yantouch (4), which can change colors or you can choose which color you want lighting up the room. Let the kids bath the wall in blue, green, or yellow! For more lighting ideas for the kid’s room have a look at our post here Cute Kids Bedroom Lighting Ideas.

A Glowing Room: Want to get dirty with some DIY work and looking to remodel a kids room? Well how cool is this – glow in the dark concrete. This can be used to create floors, walls, ceilings, and countertops. A simpler way of achieving this is to use glow in the dark paint to highlight certain parts of a wall mural as seen in picture (5).

Secrets: Kids love having their own private getaway – think tree houses and forts (even bunk beds). So how about building a secret passage way through a closet (6) to another room (to a brother or sisters room? Into the hallway, or up into the attic!! ). Or if you have the space, a mini tree house either custom built or by modifying a bunk bed (7).

Imaginations: Furniture and accessories that let kids use their imaginations to create a fantasy world makes for an awesome and cool bedroom. Like a race car bed, having a tent/tepee in the corner of the room (8), or decorating the room with a theme (dinosaurs, cowboys, Tinkerbell).

Fun Times: Other cool bedroom ideas and decorating options include painting a wall with chalkboard paint (9) so that the kids can get all artistic. Or how about hanging a swing (10) or even a hanging chair (11) would be pretty awesome to have – and some beanbags 🙂 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11

March 4, 2013 in Bedroom

Cute Kids Bedroom Lighting Ideas

Wild Imaginations: There are a few ways to subtly light a kid’s room at night so they don’t wake up in complete darkness and get scared. Glow in the dark stars can be stuck to the ceiling as seen in picture (1), or paint designs on the wall with glow in the dark paint (2). Another idea that doesn’t require any electricity is to put a SunJar (3) by the window. These are solar powered lights, and will automatically come on when it gets dark – plus it looks like a little sun is trapped in a jar 🙂

The most common way of dealing with the darkness is to have a simple plug night light. There are more fun options like using a stuffed animal which doubles as a night like. A popular one is the Cloud B Twilight Constellation Night Light (4) which is available from Amazon here.

To The Bathroom and Beyond! Another great lighting idea to have in the kids room is a battery powered lantern. If your child needs to go to the bathroom at night (and can’t reach the light switches) they can take the lantern with them.

Table Lamps: A table lamp on the desk will come in handy when they are drawing or doing any homework (5).

Fun Kids Bedroom Lighting Ideas: In our post Cool Bedroom Ideas for Kids we highlighted how cool it would be to fit fiber optics in the ceiling to create a constellation sky (6). Glow in the dark stars would be a simpler alternative. Another idea we highlighted in that post is to have a mood light sit on the floor up against a wall (7). This lets boys and girls choose what color to light up the room with. 1/2/3/4/5/6/7

March 4, 2013 in Bedroom

DIY Chalkboard Paint Decor Ideas for the Home

The Globe: Our first venture in using chalkboard paint was to create a desk globe, which turned into a weekly to-do calendar as seen in picture (1). See how the DIY project went here: DIY Chalkboard Globe: Anthropologie Soapstone Knock Off.

Planters and Storage: Keep things organized by slapping some chalkboard paint onto plant pots (2) or even jars (3) and write what’s in them – awesome!

The Great Wall: A kitchen wall (4) covered in chalkboard paint can be used as a family command center (Ideas for Setting up a Family Command Center in the Kitchen), or have one painted in the playroom, kids room, or living room for the kids to draw on (5).

A Wall Calendar: As seen by the playroom chalk wall, the base color doesn’t have to always be black. How about creating a calendar with different colored blocks as seen in picture (6)? This would be useful for the kitchen command center or in a home office.

Wall Decor: Create your own art pieces with a great mural (7) or how about using a decorative frame to hang up a quote or drawing (8). See our post here on turning an IKEA BILLY Door into a framed chalkboard quote stand.

Serving: Other creative chalkboard paint ideas include decorating mugs (9) and serving trays (10) to label what’s what and who’s who. 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10