Small home office in large cupboard unsure on wall colour
We have recently turned one of our cupboards into a small office room for working from home.
The room is off our south facing louneg and measure 1.2m by 1.8m. It has no window but we leave the door open into the bright south facing lounge when the office is in use.
The ceiling hieght is 3.2m (we live in a Glasgow Tennment) and we have kept one row of shelving high up (2.46m from the floor) which is filled with frequently unused items such as chrismtmas decerations.
In order to try and detract from the top shelve Ithough painting the cupboard in two colours would help ground the space and make the ceiling feel a bit lower. We painted the lower section Farrow and Ball Breakfast room green up to 1.76m and then painted aboce this in white (inclduing the shelves).
On one side we have installed a wall to wall desk which is 1.2m wide by 60cm deep.
Opposite the desk we currently have an open mesy shelvig unit but plan to build a wall to wall low cupboard to house all the current items we have in the shelves. On top of this we will place some decortive peices and add some lighting as well as some pictures on the wall.
I'm currently not overaly happy with the walls. I'm unusure if if the colour combination or if its the height of the green/white seperation but it just doesnt feel right and makes the room seem very very tall.
Should I look to move the line higher? Paint right up to the shelves green? Lower the line? Or perhaos change the colour to a lighter warmer colour?
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Emily Bre
last yearlast modified: last yearWe have a similar setup for my husband’s home office - and I actually really like the colour of yours currently! We went for a darker bottom third and lighter top, here’s a before and after. We love the darker colour underneath and chose the height of it to be the same height at the desk which worked really well and looks great.
For us we don’t have this colour palette anywhere else in the house so my hubby feels like he’s ’gone to work’ which helps too.
I think if you painted the green further up the wall more like a picture rail height and mounted your picture instead of having it on the desk that might be better for the heights .
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