Of Miles Rausch

Office Magic

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A num­ber of weeks ago, I moved into an office. It’s an office that had had a curse of depart­ing Web­Work­ers cast upon it, but I saw no fear in it. My only con­cern was the “stom­ach lin­ing” wall­pa­per. I didn’t like it. In par­tic­u­lar, I wanted smooth walls upon which I could hang my project fold­ers. What I had inher­ited was a topo­graph­i­cal map.

My orig­i­nal goal was to strip all the wall­pa­per and paint the walls beneath. Time, and resources, how­ever, were a con­cern. After doing some test­ing in a dis­crete cor­ner of the office, I dis­cov­ered that the wall­pa­per was both easy and fun to tear from the walls. I soon found my dis­crete cor­ner a rav­aged half-wall. I had to come up with a dec­o­ra­tion style that made sense with this. Even­tu­ally, I decided to take the large prints I had had done for my apart­ment in Madi­son, and I would treat them as if they had been hid­ing beneath the wall­pa­per all along.

It worked pretty well. I put up two New York and two France pho­tos. Actu­ally, they were this one, this one, this one, and this one. It was a pain to get the photo to hang seem­ingly with­out assis­tance, so I opted to add some artist and func­tional bands of tape across each one. Time will tell how long every­thing holds up.

I have more plans for the office. One wall, in par­tic­u­lar, is lack­ing full appre­ci­a­tion. I’ll add more pic­tures when the time comes.

Do any of you have a unique work space?