Dramatic Home Office Redo with Black Ceiling
Old homes often have a lot of built-in charm—but sometimes that charm is a little buried, as it was in the 1886 home Annabelle (@gardenhousegram) shares with her boyfriend Tom. The home office and its fireplace were in particular need of help. “Although the office was a good size, it wasn’t decorated to our taste,” Annabelle says. “The wallpaper was outdated and peeling off, and the bookshelf was just a couple of planks which were barely hanging on!”
There was also a wood board covering part of a wall, which Annabelle suspected held something more. “The house is very old, so I knew there must be some kind of fireplace behind the horrible wooden board covering the wall,” Annabelle says. “When I found a cheap but beautiful cast iron fireplace for sale on Facebook Marketplace, it was the push I needed to start redecorating the room.” The goal: