A Fabulous & Frugal Home Office to Inspire You

Posted by M.S. on June 12, 2009

Do you work from home or want to jazz up your commercial office space?  Would you like to have a fashionable office space but don’t want to spend a lot of money?

If you are like most people, you have computer equipment, printers and storage that you would like to disguise in your office.  You do not need to spend alot to accomplish that!  Take a look at what I did to create a  fabulous yet frugal office, for very little money!

I built this neat table from wood I obtained FREE,  then I sewed a very easy & inexpensive tablecloth to hide all the stuff underneath it.

The wood was FREE from a construction site near my house.  It is amazing how much perfectly good wood is throw into the junk pile when a new home or office is constructed.

I stopped at the site and asked the workers if I could take some of the scrap wood and they said “Take all you want–It’s going to the landfill otherwise!“  Man–I hate to think of all this terrific lumber going to waste.

Remember when you do things like this, you are not only saving lots of money, you are actually helping the environment, because you reuse and recycle items! How cool is that?

The long skinny pieces were the perfect size, so I grabbed those and made myself a table.

Ok, my husband actually did the hammering, but I gave him the dimensions.

Inexpensive neutral colored fabric, similar to the color of the walls, was purchased and used to make a quick slipcover type tablecloth. Easy breezy!

The 2 drawer cabinet underneath the table was acquired at a garage sale for $1.  It’s perfect for holding printer paper and other goodies for the office.

The next area that needed to be addressed was the carpeting.  We had beautiful wood floors in that room, so I wanted a room rug that accented the colors in there.

I found this indoor/outdoor type rug at a local home center for only $40! It looks very similar to one I saw at Pottery Barn for much less money!

There needed to be a chair in the office and we had one that didn’t match the colors in the room, so I found an inexpensive  slipcover online & covered it in a classic white canvas.

Nice and neutral and it works in the room beautifully.

Now we can get busy in the beautifully decorated office working and making money!