Office Remodel - Day 1

Soooooo . . . you know how you start a project to do one thing and then, all of a sudden, you realize that you just got in over your head? Because, for instance, the cabinet job that you started led you to remove some base board (which, no to pick, is actually just poorly applied quarter round) in order to get access to the full depth of the wood cabinetry for staining and realize that the baseboard was holding down the crappy linoleum? Like, it was the only thing holding down the crappy linoleum.

So, our linoleum is coming up. We had a choice to make: ignore the linoleum or replace it. Seeing as how we are, very soon, going to be receiving the 1940's bedroom set from SPFs grandmother we decided to refinish the floor, because we are going to be moving my office (you remember my new office?) upstairs into the nook between the kitchen and the courtyard. We are going to have an official spare bedroom and (hopefully at some point in the future) a room for a little one. So, why not get the new office up to speed right away?

So, like we have done before, our one project has turned into two, and our kitchen cabinet project may be turning into the kitchen project. More to follow.

The original problem begins:


The office without the horrid baseboard. (In this case, the 'baseboard' was actually chair rail. So it wasn't really doing anything at all. We have hated those stupid crappy boards since we moved in. So it is kind of awesome to be getting rid of them. :)


The other side of the office. (Notice how the pantry has no doors!) It isn't a huge space, but all of my office furniture will barely fit and then we will have a fabulous spare bedroom and I will have a nice little office that is all my own.


Removing the baseboards also led us to the realization that the walls hadn't been finished to the ground initially, so we have to refinish the walls as well. Dang.


Of course, there were other problems with these walls, so this isn't the worst consequence. So now, I will have a beautiful new office with new walls, paint, and tile.


SPF putting new joint compound on the walls. They will be a completely smooth finish, which is exactly what I wanted! Thanks you, dearest. :)


The wall with new joint compound, drying.


We can handle it.