Office Remodel

So we had this idea to put hardwood down in the office, hallway, and kitchen a while ago. The hallway and kitchen were done some time ago, but the office was a much bigger pain because of all the stuff in there.

Well we finally got to it recently. When we got all of the stuff out of the office, we pulled up the carpet. There were a lot of staples in the floor. I think the room had been re-carpeted before, and they just left the staples there. So that was a whole lot of work, getting all of the staples up, and we kept finding more we missed throughout the project.

When we got all of the carpet out, we figured that you don't get a better time to paint than this, so decided to paint the walls too. We went down to Walmart and picked up a nice blue. the painting went good, but we had so much paint left that we did a second coat. I figured it couldn't hurt.

We also decided to redo the light fixtures and outlets to try and make a theme in the office. The ceiling light was a pain because the existing mounting box was recesed too much. We tried to get longer bolts, but they light manufacturer decided to use non-standard bolts, and the hardware store was just baffled that it had no matching bolts. So I got creative and just used the same bolts with some spacers on the mounting bracket. It worked great, but I won't buy from this company again.

This is the new light fixture.

This is the bookshelf storage area. Lots of Janel's crafty stuff already organized away.

This is the computer area. The rolly chairs are the best on the new floor.