But while it’s been easy for me to come up with color schemes for the rest of the house, the office has long been a hodgepodge of blah blues and greys, dull sensible office neutrals – the usual ho-hum utilitarian workspace colors. Not fun at all. Part of it is that you never think of the office as a fun space: it’s that messy room, where the papers pile up on your desk and where you throw all the junk in the rest of your house so that the guests don’t see the clutter when you entertain them in the living room, kitchen, wherever. And part of it is that office things – desk organizers, computers, fax machines, file cabinets, even binders and the like – have a tendency to come in a limited array of rather dull colors, mostly in the blue-black-white-beige range, hues that lack any semblance of character at all.

It’s a tragedy, really, because while my office might be for work, I’m a whole lot happier when the work feels fun. Which is why I’ve finally decided that I’ve had it with the bland office neutrals, and need to bring a little more color into the room. So where to start?