The Sauder Willow Bay Collection

The Sauder Willow Bay Collection is beautiful for any office, anywhere, but seems to be a perfect fit for a home office.

Like other people who work from home, I have a love/hate relationship with our home office.

On the love side, my heart skips a beat when I turn my computer on in the morning. I’m one of those freaks who loves the morning, anyway - everything’s ripe with possibility and promise. So when I turn the computer on, I get a little heady thinking about what lies ahead. I also love the bookshelves filled with books about dreams, mental fitness, health, cats, fashion, education, golf, sales, and every other topic we cover in our Web Publishing business. Then there’s a shelf for Nicholas Sparks, John Grisham, Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun, William Shakespeare, and the like. We keep the Dean Koontz collection in another room - the rest are, rightly, afraid of him.

I love our printer, our sexy little green lamp, our scanner…. All of it represents our home business and all of the love, time, and work we put into it. While that’s all very good and well, it’s also what leads to the hate end.

It all represents a home business. The first word (home) is the more important of the two, of course. So I confess that sometimes I wish that our home office were a little less business-y looking and a little more home-y looking.

In a nutshell, that’s what I love most about the Sauder Willow Bay Collection. It’s gorgeous and looks like it’s right out of Ethan Allen rather than Staples - which, ironically enough, is actually where I saw the collection.

The pieces in this post are all available at Staples.com and aren’t nearly as costly as you’d expect them to be. Of course, I just read about a cat that costs thousands of dollars, so nothing seems too high to me right now.

Click on any of the links or prettiful pictures to take a closer look and to see the entire collection.