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Home Office Makeover Challenge
Working from home certainly has its benefits — namely being able to work in your pyjamas + the fact you can do a cheeky load of laundry on your lunch break. Not to mention the only commute is from your bed to your desk… or you may even work from bed, no judgement here! While some of us are blessed to have a separate home office, the reality is that most of us are having to make do with the space we’ve got. If you’ve recently bought your first home, you’re probably already deciding whereabouts you can squeeze in your work station. Fortunately, you don’t need to live in a mansion to have a dedicated and beautiful space for your 9-5 headquarters. If you’re looking for some inspiration for your home office makeover, you’ve come to the right place.
Recently Legal & General Affordable Homes challenged me to decorate a home office space on a total budget of £500. I created this Organic Modern style office in one of their bright and airy London apartments, choosing a neutral colour palette with pops of green paired with rustic materials and wood to add warmth to a new build. I do love a good bargain hunt and often when you move into your first home there isn’t much of a budget left over to decorate, however that doesn’t mean you need to compromise on style. Most of the furniture and home decor pieces I selected are high street purchases or quick DIY upcycles, but look SO elevated and elegant without the stifling price tag.
Legal & General Affordable Homes provide affordable homes through Shared Ownership, which is a fantastic opportunity to get on the property ladder in London. Moving into a blank canvas can seem overwhelming but on the plus side, you have a fresh, clean slate to work with! No lime green walls or stained carpets which are usually found in old homes and rentals. If you’re interested in learning more about Shared Ownership and whether it’s the right fit for you, head on over to landgah.com where they have lots of helpful articles and advice as well as an affordability calculator. You’ll be shocked when you discover how little of a deposit you’ll need for your first home.
Giveaway!
Win this £500 home office
*GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED*
I’m excited to give one lucky winner the entire contents of this home office, including all the furniture & decor pieces I sourced. To enter: all you need to do is leave a comment on this post to be in the running. Scroll down to the very bottom of this page to leave a comment.
*Winner will be picked at random on and the winner will be picked on the 27th of April and complimentary delivery will be arranged to a London address.
xx Kelsey
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Moving out into my very first flat (alone) in the coming months and your blog has been AMAZING at helping to inspire me when it comes to styling! I have over 200 houseplants too so I like that lots of your designs are planty (hahaha). Would absolutely love to win this giveaway – thank you so much for hosting and keep inspiring ?
I love this unique and vintage style desk! Me and my other half are currently restyling our house and we are doing it bits by bits! The study room is our first priority and this would be really great! I’ve been following you in instagram and you’ve been truly an inspo!
Fingers crossed to get lucky this time!
This is beautiful! Your refurbs are always so stunning as well!
Fabulous prize! After 2 years of working from home and sitting on the sofa or breakfast bar I need a home office set up as we’re continuing to work from home for the foreseeable! Love the style of whole set-up but love particularly the desk ?!!
What an absolutely stunning work space. Would love to do something similar in our study when we finally move into our new home (hopefully next month) ?
This home office is simple, but I think I’ve figured out why it really works.
It’s a complete story. The painting is the heroine with each of the other pieces working to emphasize or mirror her. Brilliant work— now imagining this set in my own home!
This is so stunning!
I would love to win ?
We moved into a new house during the pandemic when I was heavily pregnant and some of the corners of our house still need decorating & styling for sure.
I’m back to work from maternity leave (working from home) and would love a beautiful work officer space like this.
Finally, after 3 years of long-distance relationships with my partner, we finally are moving in together! We love your style and your page has been a big inspiration for our future home. Anything to help with the cost of buying and styling our first house! We would love to win this!
Absolutely love this set up! Would love to win! 🙂
I love this set up so much, truly timeless!
We will be starting our office renovation in the near future ( budget is holding us back currently as we’ve bought a very dated doer upper that needs even more work than we expected). This is exactly the vibe I envision though and it’d give us a great starting point! X
The most delicious blog! Love your style and home. Moving in with my partner in June and would love to win these! X
The most delicious blog! Love your style and home. Moving in with my partner in June and would love to win these! X
I’ve been following your Instagram for a while now and find it so inspirational. I would love to win this giveaway, my home office setup is a place that definitely needs some love. And being 4 and a half months pregnant, I feel a little guilty spending money on non-baby related things lol! X
This is beautiful! Would love it for my home office! Thanks all ?
Yes please! Looks so lovely 🙂
Absolutely in love! Your style and DIY is my inspiration and has been apart of my vision board for as long as I can remember! Moving into our new apartment with my new husband (finally)! Would love to spoil him with this incredible home office as we’ve been renting a room for two years! New country, new home and hopefully a new home office – sending my wishes to you ✨✨✨? thank you for sharing your creative gifts and talents, it’s helped me realise I can give myself whatever I want!
Beautiful I really love it!!
Thank you for this amazing giveaway!
My boyfriend and I found our dream home and our offer was accepted!
This would be a perfect set for our first house ? ?
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I live in a pretty drab basement apt. It’d be lovely to do some of my teaching work from a lovely desk set-up like this! ?
I absolutely love this! Just moved over to the UK so this would be such a treat.
I love this so much, my living room is nude, green and beige and I am obsessed!! I have just moved into my first place as my parents moved away. I’d love this opportunity! X
Wow this is so cool, I would absolutely love a space like this to do all my uni work at! ???
Such a beautiful set up. It’s been a long time coming but I’m about to redecorate my bedroom and this would be an ideal spot of my own away from the chaos of my 3 boys ? x
I absolutely love this set up! You’ve styled it so beautifully and I love the warming feeling it brings. Makes me feel so calm ?
I’d love to gift this to a friend who’s just moved into her new place after being so unhappy with her living situation over covid – it would make her day! (And her new flat!) xx
I’ve been in the furnishing zone since my fiancé and I are moving things into our first place as our wedding closes in. The arrangement definitely inspires ideas 🙂
What a gorgeous set up! I’ve just moved into a flat and this set up would fit perfectly in the small space I have to navigate! ?
I’ve been in the furnishing zone since my fiancé and I are moving things into our first place as our wedding closes in. The arrangement definitely inspires ideas 🙂 Would love this in our new space.
We’d love to have this little set up in the corner of our lounge. My husband has just got a new job which entails some WFH and I’d love to make a cosy corner for him.
I looks soo amazing
I’m the process of decorating my new flat, this would look amazing ?
I’m the process of decorating my new flat, this would look amazing ?
I am soon moving – and I am getting at long last a home office, it’s currently empty – and I can’t wait to give it a make over. Celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary this week and I’m going carboot hunting for office decor. Fingers crossed for this competition. X
Hi! I’m moving soon to my first flat. I have to buy all. I will love to have this desk for studying and work. Fingers crossed!!
Wow this looks incredible! I’d love to enter so I can finally upgrade my wfh set up! X
I have just bought my first home and struggling to decide on office furniture. All theses pieces would look amazing ?
This set up is gorgeous! We’re currently looking to buy our first home and I’m so excited to decorate it!
I love how simple yet beautiful this is! I’ve been working from home for the last year and still have yet to even get a desk chair and have just been using a stool ? so thanks for the inspiration! Is stunning.
It’s a beautiful set up and would make working from home more enjoyable! Having a dedicated space to work would definitely make a difference to my mood and motivation at work. Thank you for a chance to enter this giveaway!
I’d love to have a stylish, comfortable and dedicated space to be creative at home! I would be absolutely thrilled to win ☺️
Love it ? it’s beautiful!!
It would feel so Zen having a room to relax to work. ????
Xxx
Love it! What great inspiration! The desk is gorgeous!
Meeeeeeee ??
Love everything about it. Also, appreciate that the design is such that while it’s a workstation it blends into the home and not looking too official/formal.
It’s also cute and just makes you want to get work done ?
This is just what I need to focus on my career change. It’s stunning
Your Instagram page has been a real inspiration. I have been doing up my new home for the last six months and cannot wait to finally move in. An office space was something I was hoping to create once I’ve moved as my husband works from home and has been using our bed as his desk! This workspace looks amazing.. absolutely love love love what you do!
This home office is everything! I would be so happy to sit at this desk everyday. After 6 months of moving delays, after being in the new house for a couple of weeks I seriously am in need of this stylish set up (especially after I had to cancel all of our furniture orders 6 months ago and now supply chain issue = 3-4 month wait)
So beautiful! Love that it can be such a multipurpose set up too. I’ve not had any dedicated work space for two years mostly because of space, and my back knows it!
This is so beautifully done! Can’t imagine how great this would look in my house. Would love working on something like this to accomplish my dreams in life.
Perfect for a home office tucked within a room- love it!
Beautiful! Buying my first home this summer and an office is such an important part of the house as I WFH permanently! Love the desk I feel inspired to decorate once I’m in.
I love everything about this set up you created from the tone of the wood to the piece of art you chose and the greenery you used! ??
So calming and peaceful, complete opposite of my current setup of using my dinner table as my home office and never having the will or energy to remove all my office things so I end up having my meals on a little side table ☹️ I would love to have my own little desk to really separate work from personal life, I believe it would make a huge difference!
Love love love!! Would look amazing in my new home!!
I’ve been working mostly on my dining table in the past year and was already planning to carve out a corner in my bedroom to work from. This beautiful setup would be perfect to complement the style of my bedroom (which has been very inspired by your style too)! Hope to be able to bring this home and start working more productively!
Oooo La La!! Yes, please!! So lovely.
So beautiful. I have chronic illness and love to write. Having to move back in with parents soon after a very bad health period. Would love to create my own writing sanctuary there. Love your neutral colour theme with hints of green. Dreaming of creating a place like this someday and being able to work up to a writing career.
Serenity ?
Peace ☮️
Wow, this is gorgeous! Would love to transform my work from home space into something that is this gorgeous and stylish.
This set up is beautiful, I’m buying my first house and this aesthetic is everything I’m aiming for.
Absolutely would love a space like this in my home!
So gorgeous! Getting used to working at home would be much easier if I had this sort of set up!
I love this home office!
I love this home office!
Looks amazing and always loved your style! Fingers crossed ?
Looks amazing and always admired your style! Fingers crossed ?
Oh my goodness, I love the colour combinations of this set up. The colours really go with my little office room that is still in the process of finishing. Their really is beauty in simplicity and I would love love loovve to win giveaway. X
So so beautiful!! I absolutely love your blog and all your home inspiration ??
This decor looks like my dream. I’ve been working from home for 3 years, but still doesn’t have even a chair, run meetings on the floor ? You inspire me to dream and project a real home for my soul. Thanks a lot ?
So beaut! After WFH for over 2 years my space needs a bit of a glow up. Thanks for the inspo Kelsey!
It’s a gorgeous set! Love the style, how delicate it is yet stylish ?
It’s a gorgeous set! I do love a wooden furniture- you can’t go wrong with it!
Moving house so in need of this badly! Especially love the cane chair!
This is absolutely gorgeous! Love the whole setup.
Moving into my first flat alone! Exciting time ahead but nervous as well…
Gorgeous set, I’m a big fan, you always portrait a good vibes. Thanks!
I’ve never had my own office space, working at the dining table so would love to have a gorgeous office like this! X
Such a beautiful set ?
So Stunning. I have recently moved homes and would love this set to complete my work from home space.
Omg such a dream!! I’m about to move and this would be the dream
Definitely guilty of wearing pj’s when working from time to time. I’ve been saving up for a deposit but I’m too indecisive on where I want to live, shared ownership is a great option (for when I decide where!). Love the way you’ve styled this, this would fit perfectly in my living room! X
We are in the middle of our first home purchase and this would be so amazing. I love love love thr rattan chair ? Fingers crossed for the Win
I love this so much! Currently working from my couch while pregnant which is less than ideal, would love a set up like this!
This is so beautifully styled! I am still guilty of working from my couch most days so need to organise a proper set up!
So beautiful!!! Getting back to work after giving birth 2 months ago and this would be amazing as my home office :’) You have the best home style!
Absolutely love this. It’s quite minimalist but very stylish
What a great giveaway! I love your sense for interior, it’s so similar to my personal style. I’ll return to my old flat after some time I spend studying in Dublin and I definitely want to change some things (especially my office chair, which honestly makes my back hurt when I just think about it hahaha), so it would be a dream to win this giveaway! ?
What a great giveaway! I love your sense for interior, it’s so similar to my personal style. I’ll return to my old flat after some time I spend studying in Dublin and I definitely want to change some things (especially my office chair, which honestly makes my back hurt when I just think about it hahaha), so it would be a dream to win this giveaway! ??
Love how you display your style!
It is gorgeous. I love it ??
Love how homey and cozy this looks. Beautiful aesthetic, it would fit right in with my mix of traditional meets boho, with a pinch of colorful eclectic vibes I try to infuse in my living spaces. It makes me happy.
Beautiful set, and perfect to make a relaxing work from home experience! 2 years in and no end in sight, would love to have a revamp! ?
Love the rustic feel to this study ? perfect mix of beige, green and woody textures ??
Love this so much! First time home buyer, currently furnished my new home, I absolutely love your aesthetic ❤️
What a gorgeous set up! Obsessed with that wood ?
Loveee this ❤️
The desk is so stunning! Would look perfect in my home ??
Such a beautiful office space Kelsey! Adore your style ✨?
Love the relaxing vibe this gives off! I recently bought my own place and this gives me lots of great ideas for mixing up things I’ve already got with some new finds.
Would love to win this gorgeous furniture!
Love this
Such a beautiful set up! I’ve just landed a new remote role with a great company and these pieces would be wonderful for a lovely home office space!
So pretty ?
The setup is so elegant!Love the chair, looks so comfy and has such an old school charm❤️
What a great selection of items, I would have never guessed you could have got all that for under £500. And such a stylish look that would suit any home and design palette
All looks wonderful ?
This is so gorgeous, I love the neutral colours!
Moving to London and have fallen in love your style. I have a fantastic flat that I desperately need to furnish to make it a true home. I would love to have a little office space.
Absolutely love this set. Currently saving to buy my first home and this set is the style I’ve dreamed of for the new home!
What a beautiful office set up!
Oh my word! What a gorgeous layout, I would love to be in the running to win this as it would add so much sparkle to my hard days working from home ♥️
Such a beautiful setup! I’m sure my girl would love it!
I love this look – what a beautiful setup! ?
Pick me pick me ??
Loveeee this set! It’s so perfect!
Newly engaged and about to move into our first house! Whist both studying further education! This would be the dream! Xx
After a lot of hard work and saving up me and my partner have finally bought our first house. Your designs are always so elegant and inspiring, exactly the style I’d love to replicate in my own home. This would be such an incredible opportunity to get some beautifully styled furniture among the cheap second-hand charity shop finds.
I love how timeless and stylish this is. We cannot afford to do up our flat at all, as my husband has long covid and is unable to work due to this so my work space is seriously neglected. This would make me feel inspired each day and make working from home so much more enjoyable! I love it so much
All these items are so beautiful ? what an amazing giveaway!
Very inspiring! Your pictures motivate me to get up and start improving my interior design of my room and to not be lazy and clean up!!! I need it ? Your work is awesome, keep going
My home office needs a serious revamp, would love to win this set up! 🙂
That chair is an absolute dream! I’m working from home all the time and we keep looking for a desk and this entire setup is beautiful. We’ve found your blog really useful and have even upcycled a few things for our house to keep them fresh after being inspired! Thank you x
This reminds me so much of studio mcgee
Reminds me of studio mcgee!
Love how beautiful this desk is and what you have done with decorating it.
I would love to have this!
I need this! ❤️
So perfectly put together! Absolutely love the style!
So perfectly put together! Absolutely love the style! I love your account!
So so so beautiful, you’ve made it look so cosy and stylish at the same time! I am currently working from my couch on my WFH days so need to get my act together and sort something like this ?
Been on my course at uni for two years, been working from home for the majority, although I still don’t have a desk or desk chair, I usually just sit on my bed or on the floor of my bedroom?
I love neutrals too! Glad I found your account! Keep inspiring!
Stunning! ? That would be a dream to win this giveaway ?
Love the office, love your account, thanks for inspiring me!!
Forever impressed at what you’ve managed to do at all your rental properties!
Offices feel so incredibly hard to style (juggling function and aesthetic) but you’ve really nailed it.
Moving into my Reno property and religiously following for inspiration. I work from home so this would be a dream come true ??
Your account has inspired me just at the right time. Myself and my partner are moving into our first home together and I would love to add a little bit of your taste! I am a mental health worker so a new working area is just what I need for our forever home.
Your account has inspired me just at the right time. Myself and my partner are moving into our first home together and I would love to add a little bit of your taste! I am a mental health worker so a new working area is just what I need for our forever home. Thank you x
Your account has gave me inspiration just at the right time. My partner and I are just moving into our first home together and would love to add a hint of your style into our home. I am a mental health worker so a new desk is just what I need to add into our forever home. Would be the perfect gift. Thank you x
I would love love love to win this home office with it’s beautiful peices it’s simple but so affective. I have been working from home now since the pandemic started and still working from our kitchen table, safe to say my home office project has been on the backburner! Even if I aren’t the lucky chosen one, I just want to say I love your home account and blog with tips ? xx
Have been meaning to set up a home office. This would be so nice xx
Absolutely stunning! Working from home has definitely been a difficult transition over the past few years, as I did my masters from home and now work from home twice a week, but having a lovely space to work in makes it just that bit easier
This is beautiful!
This is amazing! Past few months I have gone fully self employed, would be perfect to have a lovely set up rather than working from my lap ? good luck everyone! ♥️
Your styling is impeccable! I’ve even purchased a few things secondhand from you for my own house. Love the vibes
I just moved in in my very first own appartment. It has been a tough year.. Now i’m picking myself up and starting a new study this summer! All i need is a good and nice peacefull studyplace this would be perfect!???
I absolutely love this; we are currently waiting to move into a bigger home as we are overcrowded in our current property, still have our two year old son in our bedroom so it’s been hard.
Would love this desk to take to our new home. It’s such a beautiful piece I could imagine it would never be outdated.
Oh what a perfect work from home setup!
Oh what a perfect work from home setup! Would love it
It would be the most beautiful spot in my flat, as I am terrible with anything decor related. ??
This is amazing! Love it so much ??
Hi!
Absolutely love your ideas. Kind of reminds me of my tropical origin (India). I like that your interior ideas are collaboration of very classic, timeless and sustainable pieces in simplistic way. It’s more like blending old world charm in modern ergonomics. I would like to have this set in my collectibles. I am a Doctor by profession but have immense interest in designing- architecture and interiors. Thanks much.
It’s so amazing and adorable. I appreciate the fact that it could serve as a home office and also be transformed into a corridor decor as well. Well designed with great style and attention to detail. Hopefully I can win and if not, recreate something like this I can afford.
Moving into our first house together with our daughter and started my own home business at the same time! So excited for a new journey and starting it off with a beautiful office like this would be the dream! Thank you for inspiring content!