Behind These Old Windows is a series I do here, from time-to-time, to share repurposed and handmade ideas while decorating around the house. We live in a 90 year-old house with huge windows and the original wavy glass. They fill every room with character and inspiration.
My office sits in a big black armoire right smack in the middle of our dinning room that is grand central station in our house. While it’s not quarantined off as being my own space, it is so many ways. I put whatever I need in those shelves, behind those doors, store it, use it and hide it from all to see. Living inside of there is my computer (ahem, both of them), along with piles of magazines, school handbooks, a dry erase board of story ideas and deadlines, mason jars of pens, photo supplies and maybe a few items to be mended, given the day.
The fact that this space is in the middle of our house is why it works for me. This is where the girls run circles from their room, to our children’s library, to our kitchen and back around again. Sometimes it happens while bouncing on balls, sometimes on roller skates, sometimes in costumes and most recently sometimes on a pogo stick. Yes life is always interesting here! And while I am still being a part of their lives, I can sit right here and still have a part of mine.
Recently I added a bookshelf to the space that was refurbished by a local woman. I spotted it at the Side Street Market in a rustic state, bought it and had the owner’s daughter refinish it for me to match my armoire. She did a fabulous job. Much better than I, a wannabe DYI gal, could have ever done. Choosing the professional this time was the right thing to do.
And even though it is my bookshelf, you can bet there is a shelf of children’s books that I love – for crafts, cooking, sewing and more. This space of mine is one more glimpse into a mama’s life where my kids make up so much of what life means, yet I find a way to still define a little bit of it for me. I love this space. I could not imagine a home office any other way.
