If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you know my dining room recently stopped freeloading and got a chance to update her resume: She’s an office now.

Well, a Doffice? A Oining Room? I think I’ve landed on Le D’Office as my favorite option.

My time living in New York gave me a very low tolerance for wasted space and unused rooms, so I was determined to make our beautiful and mostly un-trod dining space into something equal parts beautiful and practical.

The room itself is still a work in progress — I’m ready to paint the ceiling sage green and blow out a wall to connect it to our living room, so nothing major is on the horizon — but I’ve been using it as an office for a few weeks, and I’m so happy with how it’s turned out!

The first major change was swapping out the dining table for something we could modulate as needed — add leaves for guests, take them out for zoom calls. I found this beauty on Facebook Marketplace, and it was perfect!

From there, I made a few decor tweaks, added fabric to the glass cabinets on our hutch, stored a few dining chairs (easy to get back out in a pinch), and painted the trim a moody but dynamic green color that somehow manages to adapt to all of the shades of green in the wall mural.

In the end, it’s been a valuable reminder that no room has to remain one thing — it can always do more for you, if you just stop to ask. If you feel like you need more space, maybe the answer isn’t always expanding the space, maybe it’s expanding the space’s role!

I’ve linked some of my favorite pieces for this project HERE.