After being home for a while and actually living in our house a few weeks we decided that a few things needed to be changed. Steph's sister moved to Florida and stored a few items at our house... more like we are borrowing them until she decides she wants them back. A TV stand and coffee table along with a few paintings. Her sister also painted us a rather large painting for our living room that we were finally able to hang. It has been very nice to be home and live in our home and make things feel the way we want. We have very much enjoyed every moment of our little "vacation".
Here is a great shot of the painting(s) that Tiffany created for our living room!
For Geoff's birthday Steph wanted to do something special for and decided it was finally time to take out the built in cabinet in his office. On Thanksgiving morning, as we were getting ready for the day, we decided it was time to start our little remodel project. It was a lot of fun. We dismantled the cabinet really fast and made sure not to make huge mess, so we took it apart in large pieces. After we had all of the cabinet pulled out of the room we had to get ready for Thanksgiving dinner with our families; project postponed for a bit. The next day Steph and her mom finished the job by painting and cleaning the room. Geoff got a new desk from Steph's parents that has really been a great help in organizing the room and making it feel a lot bigger. The office still isnt exactly what we want but we are getting close now. We reorganized all of Geoff's memorabilia and went through all of the random things we had stored (crammed) in the cabinet when we moved into the house. It took us about a week to finish all the cleaning, reorganizing and final touches to the office. We still have a few plans for this room but its slowly transforming into what we had envisioned when we bought the house.
Here you can see a beginning shot of the office. We have everything taken off the cabinet shelves in preparation for demolition!
The selves are now gone and we can begin the more major part of taking it apart.
This was actually a lot easier than we were both expecting the whole cabinet came apart in very large pieces and to our surprise the wall behind the cabinet was finished all it need was paint!
Shelves and upper cabinet part gone! Way easier than either of us were expecting! Yay!
We also bought a few fun toys at Home Depot like this awesome light you can strap to your head. It really came in handy :) Good call Geoff!
Steph decided the green that we originally painted in the office had to go. It was too dark for such a small room and there really was no point in putting any kind of color on the walls since Geoff had so many interesting pictures and memorabilia to hang. She didn't want color to distract from his ever growing collection.
All painted and clean! As you can see where the cabinet once was there is no tile so at some point we are definitely going to have to re-floor the office. We are leaning toward hardwood!
Here is a picture of a new shelf we got from Tiffany she is letting us once again borrow a few of her things until she is ready for them :) Thanks Tiff! Looks great with all his memorabilia doesn't it! :)
We haven't taken a good picture of the finished project yet but I am sure at some point we will. We are very happy that we took the built in cabinet out, it was taking up so much space. There are still so many things we are going to do in this room, new flooring is a must. We recently went to IKEA and found some great storage units that would be fantastic for displaying all of Geoff's collection! We can't wait to move forward toward our next office project!
