work in progress
Friday, January 25, 2008 at 04:27PM 
Under construction • click to embiggenWe're making progress on my new office. The room use to be the kids TV / computer / hangout room but since they're both hanging out on college campuses, our entire 2nd floor is being almost totally reorganized.
My current office is reverting to a bedroom. In the new space, everything will be built-in. The alcove on the left has wall-to-wall top and bottom cabinets - plenty of storage for gear, printing paper / supplies, prints in archival storage boxes - and a big deep counter for my printer with 5000K overhead lighting for print evaluation and print matting / framing.
The alcove on the right use to be a walk-in closet. After removing the wall, it is becoming my computer area - wall-to-wall desktop with a drawer cabinet at each end. BTW, it's painted a deep neutral grey in order to facilitate critical color work.
Most of the dirty work is done - knocking down walls, skim-coating the walls and ceiling, scrapping the trim and baseboards, and rewiring the room (back to the panel box). The only pain-in-the-ass thing left is the floor. It has to be stripped before it can be sanded. We're saving that for last.
I hope to be moving in by the end of next week.
Reader Comments (3)
Noticed you're not displaying those square IKEA frames yet.
Mike - actually those are the IKEA frames.
In fact, there is no 'frame'. They are clip frames.
Talk about distortion — they certainly seem oblong!