I love looking back at pictures and realizing how much I move stuff around until I really decide what I like...
As hard as it is to be patient, I'm now a big believer in living in a space and figuring out what works and what doesn't work before starting any work. When we first moved into this house, the plan was just to leave this as the office/ guest room. (or storage crap room in our case) 😁
It didn't take too long to figure out that this wasn't working so well.
Stuff was moved around, but the general idea is that one side was where Cary worked, and the rest of the room looked like a bomb exploded. With kids needing to practice piano, 3 kids doing homework, me having a secretary job, etc... this space was not working for us, at all.
Different crap, different day. 😋
Anyway, so we've known for awhile that this side of the house needed to rejigged, it was just a matter of fitting it in the timeline.
Back at the end of July, here was Cary marking out where our new office doorway was going to be.
The new doorway was right in what was the existing closet.
Doorway, and new wall.
The new wall almost cut this room right in half.
Cary cutting out the new doorway from the living room.
I like to put up paint chips for weeks to get an idea of what color/shade I want...and I decided I would be brave and go with a navy.
I had narrowed it down to 3 different shades of navy
I was freaking out about the dark walls at this point. 😁 Not in a good way, in a I just want to paint them white, way.
But then we started on the window seat,
(Staining office door and soon to be desktops)
and added some cabinets, trim, etc...then I started to love the color again.
All the 💖😍 for my light fixture.
The original plan did not include the cabinets above the cork board, but that's why I have Kenneth around...to come over tell me what I've missed. 😉
We took the closet doors that were in this room originally and cut them down and stained them for our desktops,
On one side of the window bench seat is a desk for me/homework/Clara, etc...
Cary has his same desk, but we did shave 5 inches off the back, and we added a keyboard tray awhile back.
the other desk holds the piano.
We installed a file holder (a very sturdy one 😏) on the wall to hold the laptops for when the desk needs to be cleared off for homework.
We installed another one by the piano for all the kids music.
We added a pull out shelf to put the printer on, so that it can just slide out for when you need to scan or make copies.
I would say that the bench seat is my favorite part, but everything in this room is my favorite. I love everything in here. 😊
It's been really nice having this space done!
We started the end of July, and it took us until November, so it took awhile because there were a lot of complicated things in this room, but it's been so worth it.
