The Office - Take 2 - Day 2

In yesterday's blog I mentioned that we were having a space problem with all of the new stuff that I had accumulated in Santa Barbara that was now being introduced to San Diego. One of the items found its home fairly quickly because it used to live here before I moved. My letter desk quickly nestled against its familiar wall where it is out of the way but still functional while at the same time adds some much needed personality to the room. That got me to thinking.


Even though the rest of the room is crazy crowded and makes no sense, there is room on that one wall at the foot of the bed. The room is crowded temporarily because the futon that was my couch up in Santa Barbara is now wedged between my side of the bed and our dresser. There is barely room to walk, and if I need access to the dresser, I have to drag and push the futon until I get a tiny bit of clearance in the drawers. Not the ideal situation. But, then again, we are rearranging the office to accommodate the futon, so some things have to come out of the office no matter what.


The nice thing is that bookshelves take up a lot of wall space, but not a large footprint. So two of the bookshelves have been slated to move to this room to free up the wall in the office while also providing something to look at, as well as defined "wall space", in the bedroom. The nice thing about defining the wall space is that I can hang some of our numerous paintings, photos, drawings, and posters back on the walls. The painting in the image above I hung just shortly after moving back down because it seemed to fit perfectly in the new bedroom. Not only was it a good size for the available space, its frame matches the hardwood furniture and the color scheme of the painting itself matches the new paint color on the walls. Serendipitous, but not planned.


The next stage was to prepare the office for painting. We moved all of the heavy and large objects off of the left wall in preparation to prime and paint that wall. There was a small, but not insurmountable, hole in the wall where SPF had done some phone line repairs. It needed to be patched, which I did right away, but the dry time of the joint compound pushed back our timeline for the painting. I patched the other random nail holes, staple punctures, scuffs, and scars in the wall and we went to the zoo. As a side note, the San Diego Zoo just opened up a new exhibit called Elephant Odyssey that spans nearly the whole eastern side of the zoo with a huge area for the elephants to walk, play, and swim. Yes, swim. They have an elephant sized pool at the end of the exhibit. Freaking awesome.


When we got back, we returned to the demolition of the archway. The patch in the wall was still not entirely dry (it was fairly thick) and so we watched Young Guns II and Galaxy Quest to close out the day before hitting the sack. Don't judge. The benefit of doing your own remodeling is that the workers are on your schedule.

Fear not, we ramped it up in the next two days.