The office is usually one of the last rooms to be considered in home redecorating, wouldn’t you say" Our office was basically a storage room for kids toys, extra pillows (ok, a LOT of throw pillows that I bought.. er hoarded), and my husband’s desk was thrown in there somewhere. This room was also where our house guests slept, on an old IKEA bed frame. And that’s just no way to treat a guest, huh" We only have 3 bedrooms in our house, so this one needed a desperate makeover, in order to hold an office for two, plus a haven for our guests. Which is no easy feat for a small bedroom. See how we pulled off this double duty room below, as captured by Marisa Vitale Photography!

Hi! Amanda here!

Aforementioned storage room below. Eek! I can’t even believe I’m putting this on the internet.
This is when we took out the bed and started the process of figuring out how we would lay out our desks. To maximize space, after many iterations, we decided to run both desks along the longer wall in the room, and build storage on either side.

We purchased some inch-thick finished plywood at a local lumber shop and had it cut to build out our shelving. All we had to do was cut the horizontal shelves and add in brackets, then secure it to the wall with concealed screws. We added a strip of the plywood to the outside of the desk to give the illusion of a thicker base piece of wood.

And voila! Here is the finished outcome. Looks a tiny bit different t...