The Office Project

Our office looked like a dump.  We had a computer desk, but when we first got our house and were moving all of our stuff from our apartment we realized that the desk wouldn't fit through the door...so we demolished it and threw it in the garbage.  Frankly I was happy because it was cheap looking and wobbled, but it left us without a desk in our new house.

The hubs managed to get his hands on an old floor cabinet, and for the time being we went to Home Depot and bought a laminate counter and voila...we had a desk.  It wasn't the prettiest thing in the world, but we managed at the time.

 

This room bothered me for several reasons: 

• I couldn't stand the half-assed-ness of this room. 
• I felt like it was patched together, which it mostly was with random crap that we had. 
• The shelf above the desk was lame and mostly a dust collector
• It was awkward
• Also during the first year-ish that we had the house we were helping out a friend by letting her stay with us, so the upstairs was mostly her area...and she wasn't clean...so this room was dirty.

So finally when the hubs and I had enough of it, we got the gears moving and started working on this room and the hallway by patching any holes and painting it Dutch Boy's "Tabby".



He started out by moving the cabinet from its original spot to in front of the window, followed by measuring out how many 2x4's he would need.  Once the 2x4's were cut down to size he was able to set them in and get them nailed and secured into place.

We wanted something kind of rustic and worn looking, so we took a bunch nails, screws, a hammer and a bunch of other miscellaneous tools and went to town on the 2x4's, giving them an aged look.  We pounded the screws and nails in sideways using the hammer to make indentations into the wood.  Once we were content with the distressing, we used Minwax's Gunstock and stained the wood, followed by two coats of polyurethane.

  I painted the cabinet Sherwin Williams "Marshmallow" and we put the room back together!

I love love love how the room looks so much more put together then before!

I think how we have it set up now is a lot more functional then it was before.  With a fresh coat of paint, and some 2x4's we really transformed this room from a plain-jane kind of room, to something a little more our style!

The office looks 1,000 times better then it did before, but we still have a list of things we need to get for this room:

• Bamboo blinds for the window and the door
• A rug to warm up the room
• Some wall art
• Functional organization for the cabinet
• Crown molding
• Replace the "boob light" with something I can DIY!

Because I love the before and afters:

As I type, the hubs is working on the bathroom...and well I should really be helping....updates to come!