Office furniture for the company and for your home

How come a stylish office is essential at the workplace, but it's a room that gets forgotten when it comes to decorating when it's in your own home? Having a stylish office when owning a company helps the working mode amongst your employers, and shows a great improvement in business if you're running a sales focused company. 

You might think that redecorating a boring looking office is a humongous project that will cost you thousands, but if you're creative it can be easier and cheaper than you think.

 A plain board room can easily get a playful and creative look by adding some wall paint and decorations along with a few colourful and quirky chairs.

 The key to making a brilliant first impression is to style up your reception with some stylish and impressive reception furniture.

In a private office you might want to give people the impression of authority, and a great way to do so is to choose office furniture of dark colours, and simple but robust design. You should also invest in some smart storage solutions to keep the office decluttered and professional looking.

 For a contemporary look, go for a style of all black and white office furniture of simple and straight lines. This is a look that will work for years, as it matches everything and you can adapt it to different styles should you eventually like a change.

If you work from home it's essential that your home office is a place of comfort and creativity. It needs to be homey and cosy, but not so much that all you want to do is relax in that room. After all, it is a room for working. Make it your personal style, but make sure that it's a room that still screams work mode.

 Keep your home office tidy and decluttered by putting up some great storage solutions in the form of drawers and bookcases.

 A stylish and minimalistic office is the perfect work place for a modern working person who wants to be as efficient as possible - this is great for someone who works solely on their computer. No print-outs and clutter also contributes to less distractions.

The most important element of a home office is that you feel comfortable in it, and that you can be in a work mode even if you're in your own house. This last picture is my own personal favourite, and I would love to work from home if I had a pretty office such as this one. How I would get inspired to work in such a lovely work place.

Contemporary designer furniture

Are you daring in your house decorating, or do you stick to the same old styles?

Would you go for an all contemporary style with minimalistic furniture of metal and plastic in bright colours?

Perhaps not, but maybe you’ll change your mind when you see these pieces of modern designer furniture from Interior Addict.

Remember, just because you’re thinking of investing in a piece of designer furniture such as a funky chair or a ceiling lamp, it doesn’t mean you have to go all contemporary and stylish with the rest of your interior. A mix between old fashioned and modern could be a great combination. That shiny red chair could simply be the focal point of the room, while the rest of the furniture is quite neutral. This creates a dramatic feel to the room, and it sure would be a conversation starter! One of those red designer sofas would also look great in a modern office space.

Of course all pieces of designer furniture are not red! However, you won’t see many of the modern designers working in other materials than plastic and metal. Therefore, most of their pieces have some sort of unusual colour. There are of course black and white pieces, but in my opinion you might as well go for something extreme if you’re going to do it. What’s the point otherwise? ;)

I think these pieces of different colours are quite quirky, especially those wall clocks! One of those sure would brighten up, and add a playful feeling to a dull room such as a kitchen. The same applies to any of the lamps from the range of contemporary pendant lighting – these would look their best in a room such as a kitchen or a modern dining room.

Get style inspiration from Greece

A country I think it’s worth taking inspiration from when it comes to home design is the lovely Mediterranean Greece. I’m a huge lover of the Greek isles, and I’ve visited this country three times. I would go back any time!

Every time I’ve been to this country I’ve been so impressed by all the houses in the little villages – they all look so picturesque! The robust shapes and colours, the white stone houses, the blue details, the rough doors, the explosion of colours in the flowers… I love it all!

When seeing all the pretty white houses on the hills by the coast with the extremely blue water you understand why the Greeks chose blue and white for their country’s flag.

Here are two different bathrooms inspired by Greece. One of them has the typical Greek patterns created in the shape of the sink and the bathroom mirror, and the other one is inspired by the typical Greek colours.

These two shabby chic painted pieces of furniture in different hues of blue are just so gorgeous. That desk especially!

The mirror, just like the bathroom mirror above, has the typical Greek patterns in the frame.

 

Adding a Greek feel to your bedroom is probably the easiest way of achieve a Greek feel in your home – simply throw on some white and blue sheets and cushions, and you’ve created a Mediterranean look in minutes!

 

These interior designs are truly fantastic. Just look at that robust blue door, and the fireplace! I’m more than certain I would feel very much at home in these cosy Greek inspired houses.

Decorating with branches

My dad once thought of the brilliant idea to decorate the livingroom with a “flying” branch. I know that sounds odd, but it’s such a simple way of decorating in a creative way. What he did was; he chopped off a nice looking (quite small) branch from one of the trees in our garden, he cleaned it off and let it dry, and then hung it up in the ceiling above the coffee table using a see-through fishing line which gives the illusion of it flying. For every season my mum decorates the flying branch with different items from that season – ie, orange decorations for autumn, feathers for Easter, and red baubles for Christmas. This along with some glass lanterns in which she puts tea lights. It’s all very pretty. I haven’t got a picture of their flying branch, but it looks something like this one below:

Using branches to decorate gives a really charming and playful impression. It also gives your room a sense of creativity and a little bit of a countryside feeling. Below are a few other ways of decorating with branches.

 Why splash out on a fancy wall decor, when you can make one yourself out of nature's own recources?

 A really charming table decoration – branches and paper roses.

 Using a branch in the kitchen instead of wall hooks - what a brilliant idea!

 This ones takes a bit more skills to make, but the result is definitely worth the hard work - so pretty!

I must say this branch decoration is my favourite. I’ve got a thing for picture frames, and I think it’s so creative to use a frame this way. Branches are naturally beautiful, so why not just use them to display? Imagine if it had been an antique, swirly frame… I think this one needs testing out! I can think of a lot of empty wall spaces in my house where one of these would go just perfectly!

A memory on a canvas

When it comes to decorating a room I personally love to hang up pictures and photos. It's either my own paintings on canvases, or photos of family and friends in pretty frames. One alternative to this is to mix these two and print a photo on a canvas - something that looks very stylish in a home. 

The lovely people over at Hello Canvas were kind enough to send me a canvas with a print of my choice - something I was thrilled about! After a difficult decision I chose one of my favourite family photos - me, my parents and my sisters - a photo taken on a day worth remembering. 

What you have to think about when ordering a printed canvas is that the photo you choose needs to be of exceptionally good quality. It needs to be a photo taken with a normal camera rather than a mobile phone camera. After all, you don't want the picture to look blurry.

I expected the canvas to be big, but perhaps not that big! It's absolutely massive - 20*28" (50*70 cm). I love it though - it's a perfect size! The canvas is of really good quality, and I would really recommend you to invest in one whether it's for yourself or as a present for someone else.