Sharing Shadymont, My Mountain Cottage

Back to my series: Decorating with English Country Cottage Style My office recently received a face lift!  Boy, did it ever need one! Until I got that done, it was my least favorite room, and one, I just wanted to close off when guests came.  Now I enjoy the colors and the arrangement so much more.  I sell on ebay, and this is a perfect spot for me to keep up with everything. AFTER See how horrible it was??  I had really done a number on these walls, and the paint was so faded near the ceiling from the transom window that let all the evening sun come pouring in. BEFORE You might remember that the husband and I put shelves in this cabinet (left side).  It had previously been storage for my late husband's gun collection.  The guns have been passed on to my grandson, so I wanted to make this cabinet more useful.  I think we succeeded!! My Country Cottage Office!!  I love this room ...

My late husband (J) loved guns.  Especially high powered ones.  I do not like them.  He left them to our grandson in his will, and our grandson is not a gun person either.  I had kept them inside a huge cabinet we had built in the nineties by the local trade school cabinet builders class.  J had the cabinet built to store the guns in one side, and left the other side for me to decorate. After he passed away, I realized that I did not like having those guns where everyone could see them.  The doors are glass on the cabinet.  I had inserted a tension rod with panels on it to hide the guns, but had never been happy with the look.  Recently it was just "bugging" me terribly.  So I found a safe place to hide the guns in the house, and set about revamping the cabinet.  I went to Lowes and priced shelving, brackets, the whole works, and knew that would be quite a bit of work for me (remember I was home alone), so I kept looking and found these ...