A Nugget and a Doodle

Yup, she beat me to the first do-over which was just a little over a month after we moved in!  I may have gently nudged her into the makeover, but only because some unfortunate hurried decor decisions really prevented the room from living up to its potential.  Also, as bright as most of the rooms are in their house, this particular room doesn't get great light because it sits in the shade of a giant oak tree.  Relating to the light, everything in the room was seeming to take on a sickly green tone, maybe from the leaves of the oak tree and definitely from the window treatments!  Here's the before: That's the only photo we have of it because before it simply wasn't worth the space on the camera's SD card.  :) So this room functions as an office space primarily, but the bulk of the space is used by a nice plush bed just begging for guests to come and visit.  The walls are a light tan/khaki - same as the rest of the house....

We all knew this would happen, right?  The first room I tackled in my decorating plans, the first space to keep my mind busy while we waited and waited and waited for progress to magically happen during construction... is the misfit of the house. Yes, I'm talking about the office.  When I started planning the office a year ago, I hadn't fully transitioned to this french farmhouse meets the coast thing I have going on now.  And that, surprisingly has stuck like glue!  And as I started to work on the plans for other rooms in the house and they all sort of worked well together, the niggling little voice in the back of my mind was warning me that the office couldn't work amidst all the soft muted colors carried through the rest of the house.  But the stubborn mule in me wanted a peacock room and by golly I was going to have my peacock room.  I accomplished my goal of a peacock room that doesn't punch you in the face with a peacock, so I patted myself on the b...