Showing posts with label Rachel's Office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel's Office. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

fill it up



Rachel is beginning to pack her card catalog drawer unit with all of her supplies and tools ---- having 24 medium sized drawers rates pretty awesome on the organization scale.




Just as a reminder, here it is in the office a year ago (note the lack of a top, and stained carpet, also the fronts were really dirty): 




Now that it's not in our entry area anymore, we have this huge space for something. Were going to take the current TV stand/cabinet and put it in the entry area and use the new media center cabinet I posted yesterday in the living room.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

ordered the rug...

Rachel had finally decided on an area rug for her office, though, when we went to order it, "sold out".

I ended up finding this one on eBay actually but from the seller rugsusa.com which has a pretty good website.

It's 7.5 feet by 9.5 feet:


I also got the white outlets and white light switches installed this weekend too. 

Saturday, April 14, 2012

WHITE floors

When I started this project 2 weeks ago, I told Rachel I'd have the room done (painted) before she picked out the rug to go in it.

I'm proud to say, I won the "race":






Still a few more things to do:
  • replace the almond outlets with white ones
  • paint the ceiling fan white

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Office progress

I got the floors sanded and patched over the last few days. There was a glue that they laid down which ended up staining the floors ----- which means its great that we are planning on painting the floors rather than staining them:



Speaking of painting, my Dad is heading over there today to put down at least the first coat of paint! 


Kelly Moore makes a cement floor paint that should be durable, we went with straight white in the gloss. 


Monday, April 9, 2012

Rachel's Office

This is the last room that we haven't touched with the decorating stick. And it showed, here's the perfect "before" photo, this is like rock bottom, hard not to make it any worse right?



Now that life is settling down a bit, we decided to give it a go. We had always thought we'd paint the room in some kind of green:



Then, Rachel saw this room and wanted to use these colors in her office: 



We were thinking, the "spring tip" in the above photo. So we bought some paint samples, then a few more, then a few more, and they never looked right: 






Then, on a whim, Rachel had me get a sample of "Pink Granite":




Every time we've picked colors for a room, we've gone through 4-8 paint samples, and every time we almost settled on a color. Then, we put on a new sample and it's "perfect". This was the case with the pink granite also, a kind of mauve.

The photo doesn't do the color justice; it's a difficult color to photograph, sometimes looking more brown than lavender. I had originally pulled the carpet out of room, then realized it was the perfect drop cloth, thus why it's still in the photo below.


To do list:

  • pull up carpet to see condition of concrete slab underneath
  • tear out tack strips
  • repair holes left by tack strips
  • pick a color
  • paint ceiling
  • paint walls
  • paint baseboards
  • secure internet cable line to the baseboards
  • sand old glue off of floors
  • paint floors white


Monday, October 31, 2011

Card Catalog progress

This card catalog cabinet we got back in July has been sitting for awhile, waiting, til yesterday.

I rolled it outside, sanded the sides down, and used Bondo to patch a lot of holes/gouges/nicks/etc. It isn't til you begin looking at something carefully that you can see just how bad it really is.


The plan was to patch up the sides, add a top and paint the sides and top glossy white, leaving the front as is.


Here's the cabinet with a coat of primer on the sides and the top in place (unpainted):


Everything painted:


Some the red is peaking through on the sides, I think I am going to have to put another coat of primer on to cover it and then another coat of final gloss. Also, the plan was to add 5" feet to the bottom.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Finally: Card Catalog

We've been looking for a card catalog cabinet for a long time. The hunt is over!

I saw this on Craigslist this morning while Rachel was trying on clothes in a store's dressing room. 6 hours later it's in Rachel's office. So excited. Oh yeah and it was $50!


For anyone not yet feeling it, here's some inspiration: