Moody Mid Century Home Office + Shop The Look

Hey there – Ginny again! – with part two of our office project reveal for our Mulholland Dr. couple. Yesterday, I talked about how we decorated her office and today we’ve got the full reveal of his office.

Much like the brief from his wife, the client really wanted the room to be cooler, look like it belongs in their mid-century home and feel layered. He really disliked the rug, drapery and office chair and was pretty much open to anything. He wanted to keep theEames chair and the piano (he’s a musician) but didn’t want to have the guitars on the wall anymore. This was a great blank slate for us to work with.

We really wanted to make this into a cool, moody den without going too ‘Man Cave’. So we started to pull together some moodboards to show him what we were thinking. He didn’t need much convincing on his space and really liked everything we suggested so next steps were to just get on with it.

And here it is. One of the first things we hunted down for this room is the rug. We’d seen it on an inspiration image and fell in love with it. It feels masculine and graphic, playful yet sophisticated. I’m personally not drawn to brown but there is something special about this rug (to me at least). Much like the rest of the rooms in the house, one wall had the cream grasscloth wallpaper on it. We convinced him to get that removed and paint that whole room out inBlue Notefrom Benjamin Moore. We love how dark and rich the colour feels in here. We went tone-on-tone with the drapery and introduced a velvet texture which feels super plushy in here. These guys are the vintage velvet in slate blue fromRestoration Hardware.

We made this corner into more of a reading nook using his Eames chair and ottoman. He already had the lamp, so we added the bookshelves; a mix of black metal and wood which sits great against the dark backdrop.

We dressed up the desk with some black, brass and wood accessories and thetable lampfrom Rejuvenation.

You can appreciate here how the desk has the natural curves from the cut wood.

The back wall was a large expanse of space, so – together withMintedandFramebridge– we curated a gallery wall with a mix of photographs and prints of sketches and paintings. We kept all the prints monochromatic but then mixed up the finish and thickness of the frames so that it felt more eclectic. We reupholstered the piano stool in a mid-century woven fabric which has the same colour tones as the rug.We added the brass standing lamp last minute, and it really pulls that corner together and gives it some three-dimensional height.

So, there you have it. Do you think it adds a good amount of cool and moody to the room?

Here are some fun side x sides of the before and after and the get the look is below:

***Photography by Zeke Ruelas

If you want to see this office’s counterpart check it out here: The Modern Bohemian Home Office

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Moody Mid Century Home Office + Shop The Look - Emily Henderson (2024)