The Office AKA The Barfing Cat Coffeehouse and Computer Shop was converted from a garage to a family room long before we bought the house. It had antiqued dark greenish paneling and ancient, cheap, decayed mottled brown indoor/outdoor carpeting on the floor. After we moved in we removed an elderly, recycled gas heater from the West wall, and moved in three computers, two printers, and 189 boxes of dead hillbilly's. After three years we got the money to do some major work in the office.
The Goal: Give my wife the office she always dreamed of, without taking over the livingroom-diningroom and the rest of the house.
Needs:
- Improve the power supply situation.
A single circuit shared is not enough for an office full of equipment.
- Improve the furniture.
Some elderly particle board furniture, an ancient metal desk and a recycled kitchen countertop on a 2x4 frame could use improvements
- Improve the storage equipment.
189 boxes of dead hillbillies, stored in stacked 2 draw file cabinets and on 5 piece particle board bookshelf kits could lead to a sudden collapse!
- Improve the lighting.
Two sixty watt bulbs hanging in chinese hat style chandiliers are somewhat less than adequate.
- Improve the weather sealing.
Having an elderly aluminum sliding glass garage size door on the north end of the room is less than ideal two miles from Lake Erie and the north wind off Hudson's Bay.
- Improve the heating.
One outlet duct in the center of the ceiling intended to keep the garage slightly above freezing is not good for an office.
- Get the cats off my %$#@*&^ desk!
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