It's Not Done Yet: The Office

When we did the extension, we were able to add a very needed office area for me to get work done and also make it a temporary guest room.  Of the house, this room has the most egregious to-do list.  Right now my office is a nicely painted shed with electricity. 

First Things First

I need a floor and a door.  There are some issues with the flooring.  One, it is not level with the adjoining living room.  Before you ask--I don't know why.  Had I not been chasing Bob & the gang out the door with a brick, they may have had the time to explain or offer to fix it.  I had a floor guy come in on Friday to give an estimate.  They have to build up the office to meet up with the living room and the living room was never in line with the hall so that has to be built up too.  (all I hear in my head is cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching).  I really wish I could go to night school for carpentry.  Actually, that's not a bad idea.  I've always wanted one of those pneumatic nail guns...

Right now I have a very large area rug covering the plywood flooring.  What you're seeing in this photo above is the laminate floor from the living room (and a few paint cans--we've decided to consider the large number of paint cans throughout our house objet d'art.) 

Second, the living room floor is laminate that I want yanked out.  (I'm not knocking laminate, it just doesn't match the hallway). Ideally, the oak floor will flow from the hallway, through the living room, through the office making the entire house nice and uniform.  And, since we're now expecting new furniture for the living room soon, it's best to get that floor addressed before we start filling the room.  The doors can't go into the opening until the floors are complete and to be honest, I'm a bit hesitant about putting french doors in for bit--my kids are a little nuts.

In an effort of humiliating myself into getting this room into shape I'm going to show you what a god-awful disaster it is.

I managed to get some frames today for the artwork I want on the walls (that's what you see leaning up against the foot of my desk).   I need some shelving and found his old book case that I need to paint to make it look like something decent. What color will I paint the bookcase?  I'll just pick up one of the many cans laying around and see who has the most still in it.

And there you have it!  My office--the worst room in the house.