My Office — the fun begins!
This is my current office.
This is where I sit for all my video chats and consults.
It’s where I plan all my clients’ awesome built-ins.
It’s where I try to keep all my projects organized. That is NOT working out well at all!
So right before I left for Utah (last week) we decided — going against ALL our promises to each other to work on ONE project at a time– to start on our office.
This is Madison’s OLD room. Before we created her new World Map bedroom. This is going to be Wes and my combined office. Because of how small it is, it will probably end up looking a lot like our IL office. T-shaped countertop anyway. The rest might be different. I started drawing design plans in December but still haven’t decided exactly what I want to do. All I DO know is that it is going to be 10000000% better than my little red stool and kitchen bar countertop! It looks much better already, just being cleaned out.
I’m excited. Eventually there will be a Jack and Jill bathroom to build in– but I’m ignoring those future changes for now. Here is what I have to work with:
We Removed the baseboards before I left. Now I have to re-texture the walls. I spent some time teaching Wes my technique before I left in hopes that he would have it done when I returned home. He was busy with work so it’s still not done. Guess I’ll be working on that myself. 
I was really looking forward to the reno fairies taking care of a few steps while I was gone but It might be fore the best. I am a bit of a perfectionist — I’ve been told. 😉
Giddy-up!
I’m with Maureen- I’d love to know how you are smoothing out the wall texture. Would seem such a messy and/or time consuming operation for the whole house. Especially as we have 18 foot ceilings in some places.
Utah was fun! I’m making smooth walls. The texture we have now is REALLY heavy. I seriously hate it. Skin crawl — hate.
Thank you Kristin. Wes and I are actually both on board for this — diversion. I’ll continue to work on the laundry room too. Layer of mud on the office walls, while that dries go sand my sink cutout. Paint something, while that dries go do something else. My life feels really frantic right now anyway so I don’t think it will be worse. (And I think it will be a whole lot better after I can feel organized in a real life office). yoohoo 🙂
Sandra,
How exactly are you retexturing the walls? Are you getting rid of the existing tecture by covering it up or smoothing it out OR are you giving the textured walls a whole new texture?
Maureen
P.S. Did you have fun in Utah?
That picture of you at the counter is cracking me up. Yes…you had said one project at a time…however, having a proper space to conduct your business is essential! Your blog/business has really had big changes with the client work. I think this will be great and well deserved. It is the perfect time to do it! GO Sandra GO!!!