Cathy

The office has been emptied! This is very exciting! My dad and I spent this afternoon transferring their office stuff from the farmhouse to the spare bedroom at the fun house. It was three not very full truck bed loads with the worst thing being dad's desk which could and was disassembled for travel and the countertop that was mom's desk. That was a custom cut length of particle board countertop with a backsplash. 

They set up a temporary office in the spare bedroom because they still haven't finish the actual office but honestly, that is not my problem. I mean, it is kinda. But they said they were willing to do it like this and I believe them. 

But we got everything over there and they are currently over there setting up their computers and all that jazz.

I have been contemplating the room. 

The house layout is a C with the backdoor/main entry into the kitchen at one end of the C, then my future office + bathroom, the living room with the wood stove and then the old office at the end of the C. It will be my crafting room. Wait, let me MS paint this for better view


beautiful, I am an architect.

this house layout is so nonsensical because the original house was actually only the sections labeled "my future office" and "living room" and they slapped on the left half later with a proper concrete basement instead of stone farmhouse basement, and the back porch/pantry/bathroom again later but they (previous owners before my parents) only put an uninsulated (literal) crawlspace below that so the bathroom is in danger of freezing pipes when it gets below zero even if the rest of the house is warm enough. 

The room is a good one for crafting because I will have my loom there and that takes up space and also my many spinning wheels. Very pleased with it. I don't mind my office being a through fare because it'll just be me for now and desks can be set against walls. I wasn't planning to make any changes to the crafting room because I wanted to get things in there but now that almost everything is out of it, I think I want to make changes. Sigh. 

The walls are a tan color that has changed to more of a peachy cream. They haven't been painted since we moved into the house in 2000. We had dogs that clearly slept against one wall because it is brown. It is dinged up all over. And also I don't like the peachy cream. So I guess I need to paint it. And I kinda knew that. I have picked out a light purple/blue that looks nice. But I'm also looking at the carpet. And the carpet is nasty. And worn. You can see where my dad had his office chair. The desk feet have left indents that much have fully compressed the carpet and under carpet to mush because the vacuum couldn't get the dust out of the indents. 

I don't waaaaanna tear the carpet out and sand the floors and refinish them. But the only thing in the room right now is a big shelf and if I'm going to do it, now might be the time. Arg. 

Someday I want to make big changes to the whole thing including tearing out the rest of the carpet, refinishing all the floors, making a pathway directly from the kitchen to the living room through the basement stairwell (only a problem because there's a chimney in the wall there somewhere), the entire back addition of backporch/pantry/bathroom needs to be torn off the house and rebuilt with insulation and turn it into a mudroom/bathroom, wall off my office so it can be accessed from the mudroom without going through the kitchen.

But for now, maybe just painting and getting the carpet out.