Home Office construction – week 1
The home office construction project is through phase one – all of the cabinet carcasses are done.
Actually a lot more is done than originally in the design. The plan had been to take three weeks and build an “L” design with base cabinets, desk top of Paperstone, and upper cabinets. However the project ballooned to include a library wall with a concealed Murphy bed and a custom built in wardrobe.
Like all projects with “scope creep”, the available time does not change.
In the 4-panel image, the upper left shows the overall shot of all the cabinets with the library wall. There is a close-up of the Murphy bed in the lower left frame. It has not yet received false panel doors to make it blend into the rest of the wall. The lower right frame shows the wardrobe base. It will have nine drawers and a set of panel doors above for the hanging space. Finally the upper right frame shows most of the desk cabinets – lower and upper. When finished and installed, these cabinets will be at either end of the “L” with a window and extra set of upper cabinets to fill out the space. To support an extended open area under the desk, the top will be reinforced by concealed steel box tubing. There will be three computer monitors wall mounted (one portrait and two landscape).
When the project is finished, there will be just two small sections of upper wall (on either side of the door) that do not receive custom cabinetry.
It’s the largest single cabinet project I’ve taken on but it will make for a spectacular addition to my portfolio.
Impressive!
As I read all these really complicated (to me, anyway) projects you pull off like you were brushing some lint off your shoulder, my mind wanders back to some time ago when a ‘professional home improvement’ outfit tried to warn you off doing these things.
Yes – I remember that – and I smile – and hope they are still reading this blog..
Go Glen.
holy moly! holy cow! WOW. Can you finish all that in your alloted time? Did you have to give up sleeping and eating? Hows the coffee consumption? I could come by and be your dogwalker/ barista for the duration in exchange for the cabinet making education….
This is quite an entry in to the ‘What I did with my summer vacation’ collection. I trekked into seme fairly inaccessable white water for kayaking in the rain on Friday and had to bivouac overnight becuase it got too dark to get back out , took a short Reiki class to help CordyBrown feel better on Saturday afternoon, and made bread, wired an old chandelier, and tidied the garden beds in the rain on sunday and was considering MYSELF quite the renaissance woman. Silly, delusional me!
I am interested in the details of the ‘concealed steel tubing support’ construction. Could you post some details and pics as you get to that? I have a need for such a thing..
I did laundry, went on a short bike ride, taught Sunday school and graded some papers – and I feel that I should be carried through town in a sedan chair with a parade behind me. I stand in awe of both of your accomplishments.
Don’t be too in awe of me! I basically got lost on the river, then it got too dark to hike out with a boat and I therefore had decide between leaving the boat and coming back the next day or staying put. Which meant I got to sleep under a tiny kayak and some fir boughs with nothing for comfort but a space blanket, a wet smoky fire that didn’t throw much heat, one dry sock which I kept moving from foot to foot, a bivvy sack and a totally squished tuna sandwich and a juice box – and 2 guys I hardly know and who both snore!. My chandelier fell off the ceiling while I was at work today (guess it needs a beefier support hook!) and I forgot to put the paper lawn bags on the porch while they waited for yardwaste pickup and now they are soggy wet and i get to shovel them into new bags. Reiki class was very good though!
My home office with the brick and board bookcases will never grace the pages of a magazine and you don’t want to sleep on my guest bed (aka the 5 foot sofa). I think Glen gets the hat tip and (and he should post the signup sheet for house guests to test that Murphy!). And I do want some of his vitamins.