Home Office Conversion

A spare bedroom turned home office — wood-look plank underfoot, soft blue above white beadboard wainscot, and a closet rebuilt as a built-in workstation.

Wainscot earns its keep in a room that gets worked in. It takes the scuffs a desk chair and a wastebasket inflict on a wall, and the cap rail draws a horizontal line that makes a compact room read wider than it is. Keeping the blue above and the white below matters too — carrying the darker colour all the way down would have closed the room in. The closet is the part worth stealing. A standard reach-in gives you a rod and one shelf, which is a whole wall of floor space doing almost nothing; rebuilt as fitted shelving over a drawer base, that same footprint takes the working day and shuts behind a pair of doors at the end of it.