Inspiration Room

We are finally all moved into the new home!!!  A lot of organizing, decorating, and settling to be done but here none the less!  While I still haven't managed to get pictures of the entire house, I do have one room to share.
Trying to decorate a whole house at once can be overwhelming so we are taking it room by room.  Since the kitchen is already beautiful and doesn't need much work and the living spaces have what they need to be functional (i.e. couches), we decided to start with our office/library.  Its no secret my husband LOVES to read books so having a space to feel inspired was definitely a high priority.  Due to the layout of the house we dedicated one of the "open rooms" on the main level as an office/library.  
Shortly after we moved in we headed to West Elm for some much needed new bedding as we have been sporting the same bedding for the past 5 years.   While we were there we noticed the wall they had that was covered in wood from pallets.  I have also noticed several other pallet wall projects from other blogs such as here.  Jeff and I fell in love with the look and had a great idea.  I put together this rough mood board for the future look of our office.  We still need to figure out bookshelves for the library piece, but it included much of what we were looking for.  

Office by carl1194 on Polyvore

1.  A fresh clean feel.

2.  Inspiration as provided by the Rhino.  ***For all practical purposes the Rhino is our family mascot.  We bought this awesome papermache rhino head from Anthropologie last winter

3.  A pop of color with fun pillows.

So we got started...

I forgot to take a full before picture, but managed to take one while in the taping process.  Please don't  pay attention to the moving mess or my little photo bomber. 

First we painted the room a light gray color.  I didn't manage to get a picture after the painting, but it definitely lightened the room up a lot.  

Before we dive into the pellet project I want to give you a little story behind the pallet.

Rewind about 1 year ago, our wonderful neighbors at the townhouse happened to have a pallet from a shipment they received.  They didn't know what to do with it and I had great plans of using the pallet for some many of the Pinterst inspired projects.  I quickly took the chance to take this off his hands (as if there was only one pallet left in the world) and then my husband came home...  Needless to say he was less than thrilled about the pallet in our garage.  He jokingly told our neighbor that he could have his pallet back, but I needed wanted it for a project someday.  Last week when we were packing up the house and everything was loaded except for the lonely pallet sat in the garage.  My husband jokingly said "look at all of your projects you made with the pallet".  Bummer, he was right!  The potential for the pallet was there, I just never followed through. I tried to defend, but then just laughed.  Oh well!!!  Then just a few days later the pallet was needed!  We ran back to the house to pick up the pallet and brought it to the new house!
After a good wash to the pallet and proper drying time the rhinos men went to work to salvage good pieces of pallet wood. 

Now the design.  Thanks to amazing friends and lost of rearranging we came up with a "template" we liked.  

After a few calculations the first board was up. 

Final touches inspiration.

Tattoos, art work, and inspiration.

Here is an update on what the room looks like today.  There are many things that need to be brought in an moved around, but it's progress.  

What do you think?  Any ideas for book shelves?  Seating?