Making an Inviting Work Space at Home; Part 3

The quest continues: make a more inviting office space in a room that triples as a guest room and dressing area.  The Goal: make the room -a place where I must work, into somewhere I want to spend time. 

Step 1: Illuminate the room by replacing black out curtains with bright red and white curtains. (An Inviting Work Space At Home: Part 1, posted 11/8/12)

Step 2: The Little Things; hats and jewelry (posted 11/13/12)

Step 3: The Daybed; a new look.

After browsing in stores (more times and more stores than I'd like to admit) I decided on some new bedding for the day bed in my room. It was a big decision, the daybed is a large piece of furniture in the the small room, something I would have to look at everyday, and gets used a lot be overnight guests.

Before

 If you've ever shopped specifically for  "daybed" bedding you know how expensive and limited the options are -maybe the "daybed" just isn't a common piece of furniture?

However, there are oodles of choices for twin sized bedding materials. That is what I ended up purchasing at Macy's, specifically -a Fairfield Square Collection 6 piece reversible Bed Ensemble (a twin comforter set: sheets and sham included, on sale for $39.99 down from $100.00!)

After

The two peppermint candy looking pillows are from Ikea, ($9.99 each.) The black pattern on the comforter brings out the linear elegance of the cast iron bed frame and the red accents the new red and white curtains (see Making an Inviting Work Space at Home; Part 1.)


To be continued...