My new office used to be a filled with blue elephants
When we first came to look at our new apartment we saw just what we expected in nearly every room. After the previous tenants had left, our landlord went through each room and restored the floors, walls, and even some of the appliances.
See, the tenants that lived here prior had a few kids and a few dogs. I’m not sure on the number of kids, but I am sure on the number of dogs, two. And not your run of the mill puppies either - a pit bull and a rotwilier. From what I’ve been told the two dogs wreaked havoc in the apartment all day long tearing apart wood and such. Our landlord had done a very good job of repairing the damage by the dogs.
But, did he do just as good of a job repairing “the damage” from the children? My current office is the old kids-bedroom. Here is what the bedroom looked like prior to us moving in.
The office before we moved in
Complete with elephant border
Yellow and ?turquoise? with an elephant border. Not exactly the image I had planned on projecting with ChanceCube, so it had to go.
Over the few weeks preceding our move-in, we stripped off the wallpaper, put down a coat of primer, two coats of paint, one coat of trim color, and generally cleaned it up. Here are a few photos showing that progression.
Scoring the border
Border = scored
See ya elephants
Removing outlet covers
Fixing holes and trim
One primer coat
Nearly done
Painting the office
For whatever reason my other two helpers on this project are not in any of the photos - probably because they were the ones taking the photos. Eliza and Mike helped me through each and every step of the process, so thank you both for helping me out.
The completed office
You can see the end result and it was truly worth the effort as I now have a place, free of elephants, that I can get my work done.
[tags]office, den, remodel, move, elephants, painting[/tags]
Tags: den, elephants, move, office, painting, remodel
October 11th, 2006 at 9:34 am
It looks great! Gives me inspiration to finish a couple of things I started.
October 11th, 2006 at 10:09 am
No worries man. It’s a sweet looking office now (once I get a notebook and remove the ugle table and move into my own apartment but that’s another story altogether).
October 11th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Looks MUCH better!
Those elephants “were” cute though! LOL
But I like the way it looks now. Much more serene looking environment.
=)
October 11th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
so when were you guys planning on telling me about your move? how about you talk to me on ichat sometime about it eh? Nice work btw.
October 12th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Looks GREAT honey! You did a great job. On to the kitchen we go!! yipee!
Sameer: We just moved last week. Come up and see it sometime!
February 12th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
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June 25th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Looks terrific. What a little paint and technology can do.
July 17th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Colin, What brand/color is the wall paint? Thanks…
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