Wanna Finally See My New Home Office?

So once again it's been awhile since my last blog post. I know I know but a girl's gotta go to the gym and do other stuff too. And I've been busy putting my new home office back together. The office took a bit longer than planned cause hubby ended up getting a part time job which involved some full time training. But as promised here are some pics of the new home office.

So here is a couple of pics of my home office when we moved in. It's actually the 2nd bedroom on the main floor but we need an office way more than a second bedroom. The walls were a pinky shade of white, the carpet was a mix of whites and blues; very 80's like and the pine trim was very orange.

 A view of the room from a different angle. The day we got the house, Hubby and I only had a suitcase of clothes & some toiletry items. Everything else was on the moving truck.

And now finally a few after pics! Except for a few minor fix-ups here and there, the office is officially done. And here's a peak into all that occurred in making this space our own.
For starters we took down the ugly bedroom dome light, replaced it with the ceiling fan/light from the kitchen. Removed the door to the office. Installed a new window. Carpet & underlay which was unfortunately glued down, was ripped out & scraped off with tons and tons of elbow grease. Plywood floor was sanded down, washed with white paint and lacquered. Walls were painted a Wright Grey by Sico and trim & doors were painted some shade of off white. Hubby made the desks & all of the shelving with wood that we got super cheap at Home Depot & stained them in a Classic Grey. Filing Cabinet & a few other desk accessories were transformed from black to a Shade of Grey. Oh and almost forgot, we installed LED under shelf lighting too!
Eventually we will install hardwood flooring but who knows when & also thinking of either replacing our office chairs or recovering them. My chair is peeling badly & hubby's is a chair from a former place of work, gone wrong, so in a sense, might be bad feng shui to keep that chair. ( and fyi no hubby didn't steal that chair; company was tossing them out )
Thinkin it just might be better to replace the both of them!

Hello Again Hello, Farewell to Office Carpet, Free Stuff & More

 Hello Again my friends; took some time off blogging cause I was busy hanging out with my granddaughter & helping out my daughter and son in-law at their place of business.
But I'm back & that's all that counts right!
Well doing stuff at my daughter's house kind of got me in the mood for renovating again and it's fall & that kind of got me in the renovating mood as well. But after our 2 trips this summer, not a lot of cash in the renovating budget at the moment.
Well so here's our long term plan, Plan A. Eventually we want to install hardwood flooring on almost all of the main floor ( master bedroom, office, hallway, living room ) & we want it to be all the same. Kitchen already has a nice hardwood floor & main bath is getting a different type of flooring. But doing all this flooring simultaneously with quality hardwood involves a bit more cash than we can spend at the moment.
But at the same time, we want to give our main floor rooms a coat of paint, a bit of an update & make the spaces more our own without breaking the bank. So decision has been made to do that & leave the flooring until a later date. The carpeting in most of the rooms has been updated & in decent shape and I can live with it. But the office carpet is another story. I'm sure it's original to our home's beginnings and it kind of looks like someone got sick on it. And that's where this reno begins. We were talking about it just yesterday and came up with a simple temporary fix. Remove the carpet & stain/paint the plywood underlay & update the office with paint, shelving and a new desk. Sounds like a simple, easy peasy fix right? Well I thought the whole carpet would have been removed today & we could stain or paint the plywood in a day or two. Wrong, turns out the carpet has been glued to the plywood underlay and not only do we have to scrape the underlay off, but the glue as well. A bit more work than we bargained for. Honestly who glues carpet to the plywood underlay?
We all know that Rome wasn't built in a day & neither will this space!

All but a small section of carpeting has been removed; but that is the easy part. Been using fabric softener to remove the glue as it worked well when removing wallpaper. Any other solutions/ideas are definitely most welcome!

So Efficiency Nova Scotia came by and installed this warm blanket on our water heater absolutely at no cost to us. They also installed a low flow tap aerator & low flow shower head. Could have also got some energy efficient light bulbs but that's something we already did. If you are living in Nova Scotia and could use some energy efficient product upgrades absolutely free, you might want to check them out. Just click on my underlined link to find out more.

So far I'm in Love with my Space Age Looking Hot Water Heater Blanket; hoping it will create more cash for travel & home renos!

Have I ever told you how much I love free stuff. I'm sure I have. All of the stuff in this pic arrived in my mail box while I was away and shortly thereafter.The Nature Valley stuff was actually a contest prize win cause I enter contests too and I love entering contests as much as I love getting free stuff, and it included 2 drawstring bags, 2 LED flashlights, 4 water bottles, 2 boxes of Nature Valley Granola Bars ( not in pic ) and a $50 Visa gift card, best part! Anyone in need of a water bottle? If you want to know more about how I scored all this free stuff, talk to me!