Office progress update...

A good amount of progress was made 

with my new office yesterday.

 Carpet was installed!  YAY!

 I chose this Berber because it 

reminded me of the natural woven rugs 

that are so popular right now.  I 

want to give the room more of a 

den/office feeling.

We wanted to put in a wood floor

but it became complicated. Our

only wood flooring in the house is

in the dining area.  We had it installed

in 1996 when we remodeled the house.

Problem is we put down ash and had

a light stain put on to warm the color

up a bit.  Raw wood was installed,

sanded and finished in place as opposed

to the already finished wood you can buy.

To duplicate this was turning into

a huge project with a huge price tag.

Enough on that....

We moved the desk over to line it up with 

the step down area to this living room.  

The desk is too big fit through the opening 

of the office, so it was determined that the 

top had to be removed.

I was scared to do this but my

husband reassured me that it was

made well enough to withstand

the move without the top.

He laid a leftover carpet strip

upside side down on the wood floor and

used it to slide this little 250 lb. monster

towards the hallway (which right now 

he's about to make a right turn) 

 I'm telling ya, this desk got bigger

by the moment...Thank goodness he

is good at planning and coming up

with inventive ways to do things.

I was helping when I could, but

managed to sneak in a picture here 

and there!

I couldn't take a picture of the next step

which was when we got it to the door 

opening we had to stand it up on one end

and carefully worked it through the 

opening.  It just just fit...literally! There 

was about 1/4" extra room between it 

and the door jamb.

 I'm already loving it!  

I'm sitting here preparing this post

and I can stare out my window 

and see the woods and part of

our yard.  It's quiet, less distracting

and my living room looks

better without it.

  I'm dreaming about some of my ideas

for finishing touches.  I've already 

employed a fellow blogger 

Ann of On Sutton Place 

who is making me a linen runner to go 

on the dresser that is also a part of the

room.  I'm going to be incorporating it's 

top surface to be a part of the office. I

want to protect the wood and asked Ann 

to make me a custom sized piece 

for it.

Why you might ask do I have a dresser in here?...well...lets see if I can sum this 

up easily.

This is a quick shot of my 

"master bedroom" 

which I use that term jokingly.  It's 

roughly 12 x 12.  

We thought we were going to sell and 

move to a larger home and bought new 

bedroom furniture. (don't do this!)  

This was our first king sized bed and it ate 

up the whole room.  I ended up putting my 

dresser in this bedroom because as you 

can see there is no room for it in ours!  I'm 

standing right up against my closet doors 

to take this picture...yep it's small!

  Okay enough whining... back to 

planning my office!

Now to find the exact spot

for this baby!