Room Design!!!

 Last year, when I gave you a tour of Shafferland 3.0, the home office was the last spot to get a big reveal. You can read all about it here and see the pictures of what it still looked like (plus some clutter) until a couple of days ago. 

Yesterday I told you how we worked hard on our days off to purge, clean, organize, and rearrange this smallest room of our home so we could enjoy it a bit better. Today I thought I'd show you some in-progress pictures and ask for your thoughts! 

First I need you to know that I took these pictures 100% on the fly to text to one of my friends who asked, so there is absolutely NOTHING about them that is staged correctly. 

As you can see here, the window is quite bright during the day! :) This bookshelf contains my fiction and writing books, as well as my writing...and then the bins down low hold all our desk supplies, since we don't have drawers. Ignore all the stuff in front of the file cabinet. It will be going away. 

The giant yellow space above the file cabinet used to hold a metal perpetual calendar, but it fell off the wall (with much finesse!) and I now have a chalkboard calendar in its place. (It's one of the things piled in front of the file cabinet.) I cannot decide if I want to hang the chalkboard calendar there above the file cabinet where the old one was, or if I want to hang a long, narrow idea board there instead. You'll see it in a later picture. 

It's hard to see in the photo above because of the glare of the light, but on the left side of the desk (which now sits against the window instead of out into the room) there is a little potted plant. It has to stay there to get its sunlight each day!

This is the opposite side of the room. Nonfiction books, a blank shelf, some of Ryan's stuff, and scrapbooks. And you can see my itty bitty lamp borrowed from the bathroom there in the corner. I really would like to take that back to the bathroom and bring in another small desk lamp, but I do need the new lamp to be pretty small. I don't want to rearrange all the wall art there, and I don't want to cover it up with a giant lamp!

Annnnnd this is the new corner. 

Prior to this week, there was a square wooden storage cube sitting under that brown message board, and it held all the fabric storage cubes that are now on top of the bookcases. You can also see the long, narrow idea board that may or may not go over there above the file cabinet to the right.

This is the new glider that we brought home from Ryan's parents', and he snagged the little side table, too, so we have a place to put books and/or coffee. 

And here's where you come in with opinions! 

* I'm trying to figure out what to do with the wall behind the chair. I like the dream sign and the brown ribbon board beneath it. But I'm not sure what to put around it. The calendar? More pictures? What should I do? One thing to note...Natasha asked yesterday if we would have had the option to paint this room, and the answer was yes. We could have, but we don't want to put the time into it right now. And while there is plennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnty of this paint leftover (hello, five gallon bucket!) to repair wall damage, it is certifiably THE WORST paint in the world. It's really more of a glaze. We tried to touch up after Rob and his family moved out and you couldn't even tell where we had been. So I have to be careful that whatever I do right now covers anything that has been there before, in case we can't do an adequate repair job. (My guess is that whenever we move out, the next advocate couple will choose something new for in here.)

* I would really love to get a rug for this room, now that so much floor space has opened up. What do you think? We found a rug at Costco that I really liked, but we didn't get it because we hadn't measured yet. If we do get a rug, I'm not sure what color to get. NOT YELLOW!! :) They had one that had quite a bit of blue in it, which I did like. And we do tend to generally decorate with a lot of blue, so that could work in another space later. But should I go with something more neutral?

* What lamp should I put in the reading corner? I thought about a floor lamp, since the table is tiny and a table lamp would pretty much take up the whole thing. Plus,  floor lamp would create light for the whole room. Thoughts on this?

Any other things I'm missing??