The office is finished and it looks really nice. There are still a couple of items missing, such as a new chair for my desk, and a small bookcase in a corner. There are also a couple of boxes packed, sitting there and ready to be taken to storage, but it's 99% finished.
I had to abandon the idea of the window seat because I couldn't find something with the right measurements, having it custom-made was going to be too expensive, and I realized there is a heat vent near the window that would have been blocked.
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So I put two nice antique chairs there that came from my mother's house and a little table with the phone, a radio and a small lamp. The old blind was replaced by a lovely Silhouette blind, delivered on Saturday. On the wall, an antique mirror, also from my mother's house.
The new bookcases now look like this:
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At the back on the right, my new desk and in the corner, the office equipment (scanner, modem, printer, laptop, back-up power). My new desk is much smaller and has five drawers on the right side, which helps me store my mess out of sight.
On the left of the room is my husband's desk and computer. This side of the room looked like this before:
Now it looks like this:
His desk is an antique rosewood desk. We now have each our own work area, which is more practical since it prevents encroachment on the other's territory (guilty, Your Honour). Crown moulding was added and the room was painted a warm yellow, which really cheers it up.
I love this room and we have also improved the entrance by opening the two French doors. This is now the view from the entrance of the house into the office:
Now that this is over with, we started today with the next major phase of our renovations: the kitchen. We spent 3 hours yesterday emptying the kitchen contents into the dining room (yet again, it's become our favourite dumping ground). This morning, the demolition crew arrived and I am now at the computer, next to sawing, hammering, and enough noise to make the two dogs totally paranoid. The cabinets are being ripped out, the fridge is now sitting in the living room, and the tiled floor is being broken down. Needless to say, the Tylenol bottle is sitting nearby and I have already helped myself to it today. The cats are locked up upstairs, away from the commotion, and I have a dog on my lap where he has finally fallen asleep.
Photos of the kitchen demolition will be published in the next post.
I have finished the first of the Oliver socks and am now near the heel on the second one. This knitting was interrupted by the Knitting Camp I went to from October 15th to 18th. I took all my classes with Cookie A and had a wonderful time. She is an excellent teacher and I learnt something in every class I took. I have lots of photos from the week-end, still to be sorted out. But here are a couple:
This is Cookie explaining to us the intricacies of creating your own sock design. Knitting hands during Fiona Ellis' presentation on the Friday evening:
The mist over the lake early Sunday morning:
Fiona Ellis was also an instructor at the week-end and here she is, receiving a 3rd place from Bev Nimon for her team's placement at the group games organized on the Friday evening. Since there were only 3 teams (of which I was a member), much cheering was given at the award ceremony!
That's it for now. I have to stop because the hammering from the kitchen is making my brain explode. I'm taking the dogs on a long walk instead.
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