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Here are the latest pictures. Notice the bright Yellow. That was the first color I put on the walls. As much as I liked it, I couldn’t imagine a carpet that I would have found that would work in here with the yellow and in the living room with the posh red. So… I went back to my frst choice, a sage green. It’s in the same realm as something you’d find in a doctor’s office, but it works really well against the brown of the paper and the white of the trim. I’m very, very happy with it.

And the paper, geez, I’m so happy with it, too. It looks like someone came in a attached sheets of suede leather to the walls. The wrinkly texture is awesome. The hanging method was right up my alley. After prepping the wall and ripping up a bunch of kraft paper, you put on some latex gloves, pour yourself a bucket of wallpaper, paste and start smearing. The trick is to smear liberally on the wall and then smear over top of the paper as well to saturate it well. Once it dries, voila! Awesome walls.

Right now I’m still in clean up mode. There’s stuff all over the room. I have some more trim stuff to get done (like the curtain shelf brackets and the shelf itself), and then I’m going to finish running the speaker wire under the house for the rear channel computer speakers. I also need to get the new desk built, but David and I will work on that later.

Then there’s the moulding yet to be done, but that’s a project for another vacation.

It seems I’m full on back into home improvement mode.

I’ve been strategizing about my home office for at least the last two months. This morning, David and I began the major remodeling which consisted mainly of opening the closet up to the rest of the room. Before now, there were two standard doors into a single space which was the closet. Now, there are no doors nor any wall for doors to go through.

So there you have it. There’s a lot yet to be done in here, but this is a huge first step. Monday I’ll pick up some kraft paper and paint, and Tuesday I’ll begin the walls. I intend to completely redo all the moulding in here as well, but that will wait until I get new carpet put in the room.

Here’s the basic plan for the office. The wall that was removed is represented by the yellow stripe at the bottom of the graphic.