What inspires you to create? Is it an abundance of natural light, personal mementoes, or a super-organized desk? If you’re like the Langevin family, your workspace features all of the above. This well-considered home office follows six guidelines guaranteed to allow room for Johan, a graphic designer, Caroline, a decorator, and their three children to invent, achieve and share success.
Plan accordingly
Caroline and Johan’s artistic bent is evidenced by the graphic elements in the room. “The inspiration was an old graphic studio, from the time before everyone used computers,” Caroline explains. “We like to work with our hands, and we like to have lots of colour around in pencils, paint pots, etc.” Dramatic dark grey walls were the starting point, a fitting backdrop for the open-concept area, with its flirty mobile, reproduction Harry Bertoia mid-century wire chair, curvy cherry-red stools and a bevy of retro office accessories. Caroline and Johan made the oversized table themselves, allowing plenty of room for collaboration.
Aspire to greatness
Throughout the workspace, the Langevins have surrounded themselves with fodder for the imagination, mostly in inexpensive pieces such as the poster from the advertising agency where Caroline worked in Paris and a selection of colour boards featuring paint samples. Family photos, children’s artwork and paintings by a friend all find a place in the display.
Express yourself
If you’re an armchair traveller, or an intrepid antiques hunter, let it show. Here, for example, Caroline displays an antique gold picture frame she found at a flea market; she thinks it’s beautiful as is, and leaves it bare. The Langevins have a love of scouring markets and combining vintage finds with modern pieces, so each addition to the desk or walls just adds to the mix. Creativity begets creativity, so pay attention to your inner voice.
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