color by room: liz’s office

I am SERIOUSLY excited about where I’m going with the vision for my office, which will occupy one of the spare bedrooms on the second floor.

I have had my beloved yellow for the past three years and while I couldn’t completely go without it (it will set up shop in our kitchen!) I am ready to change up the color vibe in my creative space. I was also ready to step up the girliness.

To begin, I’ve never been a blue girl. I wear a little of it, yes, but I don’t decorate with it, I would never drive it, I do very little with anything in the blue portion of the color wheel. And here I am, giddy with excitement to do a bright office in….cobalt blue! I am convinced a blue office was meant to be for me – unlike other rooms where I just looked around and made note of color combos I liked, this room really took some time to come into focus…but when it did, it was undeniable that this was the way to go!

First of all, call me a broken record, but Pinterest is just amazing. Not only is it an incredible tool, but you learn things about your style the more you pin. As I scrolled waaayyyy back through my “House Becomes Home” board, I noticed this vibrant blue had struck me enough to pin, and much more than once. One of my very first pins was this door, complete with my caption: “Not usually a blue gal, but LOVE this hue…” We were just starting to house search when I began this board, so I wasn’t thinking too specifically yet. Then I came across these pins, not long after…

…with the caption: “LOVE that blue!”

I think was the pin that really caught my attention and I started to think of my office, for until this point, I had NO idea which direction I wanted to go in.

So I thought on this for a bit – could I paint my current desk a bright uber-laquered blue? Should I take this garage sale lamp that still needs a home and paint it as well? As I searched for “bright blue rooms” for inspiration, there just wasn’t a whole lot to be found – which intrigued me even more. I hate to do something that’s already been done many times over.

Then I thought of a favorite girlfriend of mine who embraced a bright blue home…

I was on a flight recently and discovered I had the SATC movie on my iphone, so I watched it during a layover. I found myself drawn to that bright blue yet again and in particular to this huge LOVE mural she had on her wall:

I loved the significance of LOVE in this movie – the keychain, the password, and of course on the wall. Just as it was hitting me that I wanted to channel some Carrie-esque energy in my office, I stumbled on this and squealed out loud. Signed, sealed, delivered. The office inspiration had been decided…and this WILL be on my office wall:

Does that belong in a girl’s office or what?! Love, love, LOVE it!

And then it hit me. Omg…

My office will be Manolo blue.

This is SO meant to be…