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This is our Illinois home office.  Using open shelving and cabinets with doors is a fun way to break up a long wall of built-ins.  The doored cabinets hide all the non pretty office supplies.

Home office wood countertops white built ins

His and Hers work stations with a T-shaped countertop so there’s plenty of space to spread out.

Or, you could swivel and have meaningful, face to face conversation over a cup o’tea and a biscuit!
Maybe?
il office after

The countertop is made out of oak flooring over a plywood base and is coated with and tinted tung oil.

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Comments

  1. The built ins realy are amazing, but my favorite detail has to be the curtains (hands down!)

  3. I am back from under my boxes, I love your house tour, you did so much work, and in every room!I read your open house story, and your worries about them.I must say we never did any for selling our old house, I always felt like serious people would have a realtor and make an appointment.That said, my husband found our new house at an open house! He also visited it again with our realtor…. I know I am not very helpful!Good luck with the house and the snow!

  4. Hands down…my favorite room so far! I would die if I had this much office space in my home! Great job. Love the built-ins and the T shaped desk! I just can't say enough…absolutely wonderful!

  5. Hi Sandra, I'm following you from Shannon (FPF). I'm really enjoying your home tour! What an adventure!

  6. I love this room. The built-ins are so nice! And that nice long work space is amazing!Great work!Pam

  7. I have no idea why you think that you'll have trouble selling your house- it is GORGEOUS and anyone would love to live there! 🙂 Talk to you soon, we need to skype again soon so I can have a 'live' tour of the office LOL xoxo-Kristi@ Creative Kristi

  9. I love your office. Might be my favorite part of your house besides your kitchen. Where can I find out how you did your desktops? It seems like you posted it somewhere but I can't find it.

  10. As I said many times before, this is such a beautiful office. Hubs keeps telling me this is how he pictures our office in the new house. I love that you made the upper cabinets staggered in depth and that some have doors, some don't; adds so much interest! A question I just thought of: On the leg of the "T", the wood runs in the same direction as the "T" but does it run the short direction on the cross piece? Do you know what I mean?

  12. I fell in love with your curtains! Where did you find this fabric at? Name of it? Love your house! You will not have any problems selling it! Good luck!

  13. Holy cow, lady – you weren't kidding at Blissdom when you said you worked with powertools. All of these built-ins all over your house are absolutely amazing! I'm officially obsessed with your blog.

  14. Truly more marriages would last longer if everyone had this set up. You're in the same space but not in the SAME space. Ideal. And everyone has plenty of space. Love this set up. If your blog was a magazine I would have ripped out all the pages and put them in a box to refer to later for my dream house. Great job! Looking forward to seeing what you do with your next house.

  15. I love your office space! I would love to copy the counter tops. I am in the middle of building a wall of cabinets and bookcases. I love the contrast of white cabinets and dark counter top. How did you edge the flooring on the counter top? Did you use 2x4s? Thanks for any help! Loving the house tour!

  17. Hi Sandra, new to the blog, and drooling over your office! My hubbie and I want to "shack up" together in a space like that too…. Did you build them yourselves? Would you share where if you've found some place in particular that has been helpful with 2-in-1 spaces like this? Thanks for sharing.

  20. What an awesome dual office setup!! My husband and I are inspired however we don’t see a link in this post other than for the ‘countertop’ link above. Sandra, are you still sharing the tutorial and can you please point us in the right direction?

    Thanks so much! We appreciate it and enjoy your site and beautiful work!

  21. I absolutely adore this. I’ve been looking for T-shaped desk plans for over a year for my home office. I have one question though, it looks like whatever post this supposed to link to for the details is gone. Can we have it back? Pretty please?!?!

      • Hi Sandra, beautiful desk. Can you please add the link again to the directions to build the desk? We found the countertop but neither my husband or I can find the instructions for the actual double desk build. Thank you!!!

  22. Hi Sandra! This would look fantastic in my home office… what are the dimensions of yours??? Thanks!

  23. do you have link to download the plans, listing of materials used and amounts, etc. Would love to do this project at home but dont know where to start.
    thanks

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