Office Decorating
It’s been at least a year now since you came to your new work place and officially took over your new office. At first, you were busy coping with your new home and learning a new job, but now that you’re settled in you start noticing again the same things that you noticed when you first arrived.
The walls are a bland, neutral colour and are looking decidedly depressing. The sun streaming in through the industrial quality blinds is decidedly dingy and the furniture is just about as grotty and plain as it can get. You figure that an acceptable amount of time has passed for you to start redecorating your office.
Of course, before you start it’s always a good idea to make certain that those in charge won’t have a problem with your stylish redecorating plans. And remember that it is just an office and so you should treat your plans to redecorate as such.
Painting the walls a bright red colour possibly might not work. However, you could brighten things up a bit by repainting the walls a bright and airy colour that won’t be an eyesore to anyone, least of all you. Then you could always take down those ancient blinds that have been hanging there since the early 1980’s and replace them with something more pleasing and modern.
On the other hand, if the whole of the office is done up in the same style with the same blinds hanging on every window, your stylish changes might not go down too well with your colleagues. So think twice before doing something that changes the whole look and atmosphere of the entire office.
There are, however, simpler methods you can use to carry out your office decorating project without too much hassle to you and which doesn’t necessarily need too much thought. You can brighten up any room by placing a couple of flowering plants here and there around your office.
But, if you’re at all like me and you don’t have green fingers or if your presence is death to any plants near you, then maybe you shouldn’t bother with plants. You could however bring in some bright prints and hang them up on your walls. Or perhaps you have kids and they have painted some lovely pictures for you.
Kids’ paintings work well and will show your co-workers a different side of your character. But, don’t get stressed out over anything though - you really don’t need a simple decorating job to add to the rest of your worries - an office decorating project should be fun and stress-free.
Remember, your office decorating project need not entail your turning the whole office, or yourself, on its head. It should be something that you can live with on a daily basis.
After all, you spend a lot of the day at your office, it should be a place where you can be just as at ease as you are in your own home.