Over the weekend, my wonderful husband and business partner helped me redecorate my office (and by “helped” I mean practically did it all himself). I’ve had it in my mind for a couple months now that I wanted to have my office reflect my blog. The idea was there, but like most things I let the idea incubate until it was ready to come to fruition. And, like most things, waiting turned out to be for a good reason. As it turned out, another photographer I know had a very similar color scheme to my blog (black and white damask with Tiffany blue). We discovered this when I commented on her camera bag, which had a damask design in black and white. I mentioned that I had been interested in the same bag because it matched my branding, and from there we discovered our very similar tastes! I wasn’t full committed to the branding yet, so again I let everything incubate until the answer became clear to me.

The thought that kept coming to mind was pink. I love pink, but am I really a pink kind of girl? There really was no other color that better suited the look I wanted, and after I found the right shade of pink I suddenly discovered that there was a bold part of me that screamed to have a touch of bright pink in my classic, elegant black and white damask design. And thus the brand developed!

I purchased the wallpaper a couple weeks ago, but recovering from my surgery was not an ideal time for the exhausting task of redecorating. So we waited until this weekend and began our project. I honestly didn’t think it would take the entire weekend to complete, but as it turns out wallpaper is a real pain in the butt!! The result is beautiful, though, and I think my hubby is very pleased with the result. Every time he comes into the room he comments on how great it looks (a source of pride, I’m sure, since he did so much of the work). If the wallpaper wasn’t challenging enough, I just HAD to have a chandelier in my room! We finally finished putting the chandelier in just before midnight on Sunday, including a late night run to Walmart because Matt was NOT going to let it go without seeing the thing light up!

I now have a space that I just LOVE. To be creative, you really need to have a space that is yours and allows your creativity energy to flow. This room, as Matt pointed out, is decidedly ME!!! : )