Monday, September 15, 2008

The furniture is here


The furniture was delivered on Friday, I couldn't really appreciate it since I managed come down with a cold and was feeling pretty sorry for myself. The two workers were polite, efficient and no nonsense and in two hours we had desks. Of course it took most of the weekend to just get the desks and computers set up the way we like. Poor Mark spent most of the weekend crawling around under the desks running cables. I did fuss a bit about all the cords and cables on the desk and he politely reminded me until we upgrade my mac, I'll need to have all these cables so I can have a windows machine. We've got canvas boxes on top of each of the hutches to hold various items. They all have little slots so we can label what's in each box. I'm hoping to get at least another 6 or seven for when we redo the closet. We had hoped that we could remove the closet system without damaging it, but that just wasn't in the cards. So we're going to install the bracket system that we've used in the laundry room but instead of wire shelves we're going to use wood shelves that we'll paint the ceiling color to lighten up the closet. I'm hoping we can put five or six shelves in the closet so we can have ample storage for things we don't use all the time.

The desks are still looking a bit messy as we arrange our stuff. But it's looking good. I'll add some pictures later. While this was a bit of an irritation losing the work space for a month, it's well worth it. I can't wait to actually be able to work from home. Is today to soon?

Thursday, September 11, 2008

And the story continues


Ok, I know I haven't been updating you on the goings on with the new home office. The painting is complete and I love the colors. They're a bit darker than I originally thought, but with desk lamps and a new ceiling fan I think they'll be great. It took longer to paint the room than originally planned because of my error. I mistakenly told the paint crew to paint the doors the same color as the trim but discovered it was way to dark and they had to prime and repaint them. The doors are now the ceiling color which is so much nicer.

We also had the main bath repainted and I'm loving the new colors, but I'm not so sure about the gray in the shower. It's a lot darker than I had orginially envisioned. This is more of a charcoal gray and I was thinking smokey gray. But I'm sure I'll learn to love it.

All in all I've been really happy with with the colors and the job the painters did. More on the remodel to come.