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9-To-5 Style: Mod Office Supplies Roundup

Welcome to my “9-to-5 Style” office week! All this week I’ll be sharing work space-themed content to help kick-start your inspiration for turning your office into a productive and stylish space that you can be proud of. I want you to actually yearn to head toward your cubicle, dining room laptop nook, or separate home office each morning with the knowledge that your space will actually foster creativity and motivation. I think the negative physical and mental impact of working in a bland, blah office is huge, but, happily, it’s really not all that hard to fix.

This week, I’ll be sharing tons of ideas to get your desktop whipped into shape. Yesterday on Instagram and my LTK feed, I posted a roundup of modern budget-friendly desks that I know you’ll love, and today I’m getting deeper into the minute nitty gritty with a mood board full of modern office supplies. Surround yourself with stylish supplies that actually inspire you rather than hold you and your to-do list back! These supplies are all the normal characters that you’ll see in a home office or cubicle, but they’re just a little sleeker and more modern to give your desktop and walls the edge I think so many of us are craving during our work days.

Modern Office Supplies Roundup:

1. Box cutters

2. Calculator

3. Desk mat

4. Surge protector

5. Marble pen holder

6. Phone stand

7. Task lamp

8. Legal pads

9. Acrylic wall file holders

10. Business card holder

11. Monitor stand

12. Vertical file stand

13. Pin board

14. Acrylic wall calendar

15. File folders

16. Sticky notepads

17. File box

18. Fluted table lamp

19. Wooden desk

20. Magnetic wall calendar

21. Faux plant

Those acrylic wall file holders remind me of something you’d see in a boutique waiting room. I’d love to add those to my office and fill them with a stack of the Architectural Digest magazines that I have on regular order (I consider them work “research”). Oh, and here’s a slightly more budget-friendly acrylic wall file option if you want to save some cash for other favorite office supplies from my list above.

What’s your favorite item in the roundup? Let me know in the comments, and keep an eye out here on the blog, on my Substack newsletter, and on Instagram this week for even more office-themed content coming later on, like tips for how to make your office not look like an office, plus my suggestions for making your work space feel extra cozy.

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Designing Around My Dashed Stripe Wallpaper

I’m back to talk more wallpaper with you! I started this particular series on my newsletter, Home Matters, where I explained how I would design around one of my wallpaper designs with Fancy Walls. Sign up here, by the way, if you don’t want to miss out on this extension of the DGD brand, or you can just click here to read that one newsletter for free.

Although I’ve grown super comfortable with wallpaper as a design element in a room over the years, I know it’s not in everyone’s wheel house, so that’s why I thought it might be helpful to share a roundup of accents that complement one individual wallpaper pattern. This is a jumping off point to help get your inspiration going, and to show you what I’m envisioning in my head when I consider adding wallpaper to a room.

The pattern in today’s mood board is my Draper Dash Stripe wallpaper. Since it’s a more playful pattern and color, I decided to create a space that felt a little unique and unexpected: a wallpapered wine and cocktails lounge! I made sure to incorporate that same shade of blush pink from the wallpaper into other areas of the room to make it look cohesive, and I also broke up the wall pattern with a fun board and batten trim design painted in a rich complementary green color. If anything from the mood board catches your eye, I’ve got resource links for you below.

Shop This Wallpapered Wine And Cocktails Lounge:

1. Dashed Stripe Wallpaper

2. Abstract Art Print

4. Wine Bottle Rack

5. Bar Cart Accessories

6. Flameless Candles

7. Chandelier

8. Club Chairs

9. Lumbar Pillow

10. Green Pillow

11. Round Coffee Table

12. Area Rug

13. Floor Lamp

14. Cabinet

15. Abstract Art Print

16. Planter Pot Set

17. Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree

This design is really making me want to recreate the DIY board and batten feature wall that I incorporated into our last house (click here to see it if you’re new to the blog or forgot what it looked like). I might try it in our back lounge room with either the Draper Dash Stripe wallpaper from my Fancy Walls collection, or the Paisley Lane Botanical. I think either of those two wallpaper patterns would look great with the green paint color I’m suggesting in that links list above, and the area rug, too. This abstract art print is another particular favorite of mine from today’s mood board. What’s your favorite thing on the list? Would you try this wine and cocktails lounge design in your own home?

Pssssst…You can see my full collection of original wallpaper designs with Fancy Walls here!

9-To-5 Style: Mod Office Supplies Roundup

Modern Office Supplies Roundup:

Designing Around My Dashed Stripe Wallpaper

Shop This Wallpapered Wine And Cocktails Lounge:

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