As you may remember, last week I mentioned that I started a new gig. The new job I landed isn’t actually that new at all, one of my very favorite clients who I have been doing graphic design for over the last 2 years is expanding (business is actually booming!) and has hired me on as their marketing manager, I will also be working with the owners to open new locations, read: use my finely tuned haggling skills to get them the best deals on vintage furnishings and contracting services. Perks of the job include: awesome bosses and the ability to continue working from home. Not to mention that we’re about to move offices, which I do visit once a week and have big, unbeknownst to them, plans to decorate the hell out of.
Seeing as how the only piece of office furniture we have so far is one of these:
I think I’m off to a pretty good start. (and yes, the skee ball machine is for real and it is vintage).
Hopefully my new bosses will agree with me when I say that I would like to walk through these doors every time I show up to work:
Chandelier Creative via This aint no disco
Perhaps a close-up will hammer home the deal:
It makes my head hurt and my heart melt to think about what had to be done to create this grand entrance but I am willing to climb every mountain and ford every stream in order to get these mama-jammas into my working life.
Of course, what lies behind the doors is just as good:
I am loving every piece of this office, except maybe that questionable bowling ball dangerously placed in the middle of the room, and think it is totally reasonable for me to ask new bosses if I can have an exact replica of this space for my one-day-a-week visit. Don’t you?
I think my coworkers will enjoy checking things off their to-do lists surrounded by these chairs and lovely Front Design Horse Lamp. We will be passing on the DIVA lettering, however.
If new bosses are looking for something more masculine (whatever) I will attempt to sell them on a space similar to this:
Oh! So stately! Way to go Household, you know I’ve always got your back when you start bringing the animal artwork. Let’s tour the rest of their digs.
I think the most important thing to incorporate into a new office, other than a fully functioning skee ball machine, is a place to relax, tufted, please, as well as some handsome deer sketches.
And please believe me when I say I’ve already been cruising the web trying to decide which wall mural will go best in my new work space.
If new bosses ask me to tone in down a notch (could you imagine?!) I would probably request a humble set up such as this one:
Gunkelman Flesher via Desire to Inspire
Would you all like to help me decide what image I should have commissioned for my custom oil painting? I’m thinking about having my Laser Cat standing next to a faucet, she loves that.
If the oil painting puts us over our budget, I can probably save money by swapping out the desk and putting all of my old design magazines to use:
But I’m thinking this is a little impractical and I would most certainly give myself several years of bad luck by breaking the mirrored glass I would use for the top over and over again. yes. mirrored.
While I have never advocated the use of chalkboard paint, in this instance I really just love it (bye bye directors chair). I may even show up more than once a week to visit that bright orange desk.
Won’t we all feel so important when we have our creative meetings here?
Perhaps I could convince New Bosses to knock out the roof so that I may build myself an office in the sky like the one above. On the condition that we get a little girl holding balloon painting, obv.
I will also be requesting this map and chair combo:
Oh! And I just noticed those green and gold chickens! I am so sold on this joint
And you know, I’m not having any problem at all imagining my 3 martini lunch on this couch.
Oh!! I can’t wait for new bosses to see what they’ve gotten themselves into, they’re going to be so happy!
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I think your bosses should race to the phone, call Obama, and share their secrets of business success in this sucko economy. If their business is booming, they must be brilliant!
Congrats on the new job! Sounds perfect! Love love love those red doors. When they are installed in your new office, make sure that they open automatically as you approach the entrance. Oh, and some sort of anthem-like music should sound as well. Love it.
You can tell where my priorities are. The first thing I thought of when I saw the skee ball machines was heading to Chuck E Cheese for a pitcher of beer and a large pizza. How could anyone not like anyhting featured from a source named This Aint No Disco? I’ll take one of everything and if it comes with a night on the town with Bianca Jagger,Debbie Harry and Calvin Klein even better. I am so proud of you and so grateful to have you in my life. You will be a shining star with your new found job and if you ever need an assistant you know where to find me. See you on March 31st!! Tell hubby and Erin I said hello.
Loved the post! Yay on the new job! But, now I can’t get that Talking Heads song out of my head, thanks.
Awesome, awesome roundup. Can’t wait to see how you work that tufted settee in with the skee ball set up. Oh, those guys at Birds are so lucky to have you!
I think each and every request is with merit and perfectly reasonable. Creative thinking demands creative environs.
Just show them that graph proving the correlation between dollars spent decorating the workplace and productive employee output.
Congrats on the new job – sounds exciting! I love the magazine desk – so fun. I say your boss would go for some of these ideas!
Thanks everyone!! I’ve got a meeting at the new building this afernoon, I’ll start measuring for the tufted chaise. Raina, I’ll also be sure to give a power point presentation on productivity and decor.
So is the mouse suit itchy?
The hot pink doors are STUNNING. And now I must dig up some of the fabric on your 3 (or was it 7) martini lunch – couch. My mauve wing chair needs a recovering, STAT.
PS congrats on the job!
Ah, i think those pink doors are the bees knees. I can totally see MYSELF tottling though these doors spritzer in hand, rollers in the hair…. I’m very glamorous in my fantasy life!!
That is an un-holy amount of awesomeness…the horse lamp, well uh, I just don’t know what to say…good luck on the new job!
Go Erin GO!
Karly–CONGRATS! You are a rock star! I like susieq’s idea of an anthem/theme song. Actually, now that I think about it, it seems weird that you don’t already have one. I’m thinking Pam Grier/funk-disco.
Any update on Neutron?
Very cool! Congrats on the new job. If you get to trick your office out like any of this, I’m coming to work with you.
I gotta be honest, I don’t know what y’all are thinking with those doors. If I had to walk through those every day to get to work, I think I would seek employment elsewhere. But, whatever makes you happy…
Oh gabe, i almost didn’t approve your comment I was in such shock… how could you not ADORE those doors? I think they were sent from the angels to make my life complete.
ps, just kidding about the approval, you’re welcome here anytime!!
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