Redoing a Home Office

Still in the thinking stage. I need more book shelves and desk space and perhaps one corner for the sort of cushy leather chair you might find in a gentleman's club in London; a chair that would be a great reading spot. The electrical outlets are limiting and the ceiling fan may have to go, especially if tall free-standing book shelves are put in the center of the room. Right now, the walls are filled with pictures. That collection will have to be reduced. The window curtains can be replaced by shutters and ringed with project boxes. I want to keep the globe. Some fold-out desks would be handy but they'd look strange. The Bose stereo is essential and stays. So too the saber and the Springfield rifle. I wonder if smaller book shelves could be in the middle of the room and positioned to be covered with a door-size top which would serve as a large temporary desk for project materials. I also wonder if all of this can be done without evoking groans and shudders from family members who fail to appreciate the beauty of a room dedicated to projects. That, of course, is doubtful.