(Finally) Meet Our Home Office!

I know...I know. You thought you were done touring Shafferland 3.0. Well...almost. :) I hadn't shown you our home office because it wasn't complete yet. But now it is!

Prior to moving into the apartment, we planned to use the room that is now our guest room as our home office. And, obviously, we planned to use our actual home office as our guest room. (It was closer to the bathroom, so that's why we planned it that way.) Alas, the intended guest room is really small, and we weren't sure there would be enough room to close the door with the bed pulled all the way out. That obviously wouldn't work, so we pulled a switcharoo and made the bigger room the guest room so it can easily accommodate the bed. 

Since we have a work office in the building too (which we share with Tim and Justine), we figured we probably wouldn't spend quite as much time in the home office as we used to in our previous homes. That has proved true so far! So even though the room is tiny, it's perfect for our needs. 

I also have to tell you this story about it - because I love how God is in the details. You may remember that in Kokomo, we used our dining room table as our office desk, because we didn't have a dining room to house it. Now we do have a dining room, so we needed a desk. We decided to actually get a sofa table (they're tall, narrow tables that many people put behind a sofa in an open concept living/dining/kitchen area) to use as our desk. We could both sit at it, but it wouldn't take up much space. 

We ordered the table in June, over a month before we even saw the apartment in person. Because of shipping delays, it didn't come in until September and by that time, we knew it was going to have to fit in the smaller room.

Guess what? It's a perfect fit. God knew!

So...wanna see the room?

Our bookshelves fit!! I was so happy! :) I set them up just like they had been in our old house. This is the fiction shelf. And you can see a glimpse of the desk/table, too. And the glow of Grabill outside the window! LOL!

And the nonfiction shelf is on the other side. This is the rainbow-organized nonfiction shelf. As I packed the books, I wrote down every title in order to make my unpacking easier! 

We are actually pretty thankful for these shelves, because this bright yellow is actually brighter than the sun without a bookcase buffer in front of it! (We could have repainted the room, but we decided not to mess with it.) 

And this is the other wall. We got this little cube organizer to hold all the office supplies that didn't fit into the closet (That's the closet door just out of view to the right there.) The stool was an office chair in our Kokomo house, and we stash it here in case we need to grab an extra chair for somewhere else in the apartment or WillowBridge office. And it looks like we need to get busy filling up our message board there! :) 

And here is the desk! There are three stools, but one is on the other side. I really do love writing here. I've been writing devos for our tenants, and this is where I do it! 

It's a tiny room, but it serves every purpose we need! We love it!