Welcome To My Study

Thanks for joining me on my third met Monday. To see more wonderful transformations please visit Susan at http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/2009/02/welcome-to-third-metamorphosis-monday.html.Welcome to my study. One of my favorite rooms in my home. It wasn't always this way though.
Like the rest of my spec home it had great bones but was pretty washed out and blah. Here is a peak at it taken from the dining room.

The moldings superb! Loved the coffered ceiling but knew it was not saying anything. Oh and that light fixture would never do!

The first thing I did was paint. Restrained gold on the walls and Summer Pudding on the ceiling. Now those coffered ceilings are singing to my tune. I even placed in there my favorite light fixture. I purchased the lovely library wall unit at Furniture Land South in High Point. I fell in love with it at first sight. It is by Stanley. I loved the warm dark wormed wood. The desk had been brought with me from my last home and was one of those great finds you just can't let go. I think the turned barley legs are stunning. The desk top has an inlaid compass pattern. I also picked up that cute plaid office chair at FLS in High Point in their clearance center for $125. A happy find!

Don't the moldings just pop not against the red? Oh and isn't my light fixture beautiful? But you know when you know although all the elements are wonderful in themselves something isn't right? Well that is how I have lived the past two years with my study. Although I love this chandleier. Love it! It was not being shown to its fullest potential against the dark library case and red ceilings. Plus I had decided it was entirely too small for the room. Oh I really didn't want to admit it! No worries though I had a better plan for that chandelier.

Down came the chandelier and up went my new study light fixture. Ahhh yes now this I am sure is perfect. It transforms the room. The light is better and well doesn't it look like it just belongs there?

It brings a warmth to the room that was some how lacking before. It even made the shutters on the windows look better. It is also able to hold its own against that massive wall library! Thanks goodness. The best part I had found the fixture or at least one just like it for a whopping $380. Did I really want to spend it even though I knew it would be perfect. Well yes I would be crazy enough to do so. However luck would have it! I was browsing Penneys one day and came across this one. The virtual twin of the one I had been drooling over. Wow it was only $129. I dragged my feet. But I kept going back to look. Then suddenly I found it had dropped to $89. Then $69. Lazy me I dragged my feet some more. Well about a month ago I hopped on the site and it had been marked to $59 and I had a $10 off coupon plus free shipping. I was doing the happy dance and knew that I could drag my feet no longer. I ordered it that day. 4 days later it was sitting at my door.

It really looks like it was meant to be in the room and transforms the room. Thanks for visiting my study make over with me today. If something isn't right remember to keep trying. We don't always get it right the first time, second time, third time.......