the office

I said I was going to get the newly renovated office totally organized so I could show it off a little. Turns out, I won't be getting it all situated until Halloween, at the rate I'm going.

I did take some photos during construction and while restocking our junk.  Actually, that is our dilemma - we DO NOT want to put the old junk in the new office, or at least not in the same way.  So I'm working on that, s l o w l y.

Someday, maybe we'll have 2 new office chairs and some stunning curtains to really add that something extra. And in my dreams Candice Olson will come over and offer to finish off the space.
But for now, here are the befores and afters (forgot to take some before we cleared out the original hodge podge office furniture).  My friend Denise came up with the idea for this room. She's so talented like that.

I bought these old cabinets from an office liquidator I found on Craig's List for $15 each.  Then we had them professionally painted to match the desktop and shelves.  That was Denise's idea.

Shelves in.  {by a carpenter - not us}

Shelves painted white.  Walls painted light gray.

File cabinets and desktop with glass.  A few necessities brought back in.

 We'll set up another computer where that printer is, for the kids.

I love that I have a place to sew and tons of storage - those metal file cabinets are mostly full of fabric.
I really enjoy this room now.

kitchen before and after

our kitchen makeover has been at least a year in the making.

before:  tan linoleum, tan laminate counters, leaky rusted faucet.  

kind of blah.doors off 

concrete countertops in - love these!  i've wanted concrete for so long.  done by our friend, jeremy in the neighborhood.cabinets and backsplash painted (i was 8 months pregnant.  after being gone all day, we came back home to out-of-control fumes so the whole family slept at the in-laws for a night.  our painter was not even bothered by it.  said he couldn't smell a thing.  um, that's not good.)  

linoleum and carpet gone.voila!

another angle

the details

i'm trying these pellegrinos out for the summer.  may change them out for something else.  also probably something for the tops of the cabinets.  maybe. plants.

thanks to denise, who has a great eye, and gave me the push i needed to paint my cabinets white.  i love them!  and to denise (and deborah), who found the floors at costco, and the stools (love) at overstock.

i wish me kitchen was always this clean.  baby bottles and formula dominate these days.