When we bought this place, just about every room was painted the same blah, light poop-brown. My office was no exception. Below are what it was like when the previous owners lived here, and an image from the original listing.
Immediately upon moving in, we tried to have the carpet in this space and the Blue Room (originally awful purple) cleaned, but the soil levels in certain spots were too high for your standard carpet-cleaning team. We installed bamboo flooring, but we were young and naive and used Lumber Liquidators. and it was not a good experience. The finished flooring was nice enough though, and thankfully the POs took the window valances with them so I had almost a blank slate to work with when it came time to repaint.
Here are some panoramas of my office from earlier this year:
Doing work to my office was going to be complicated though, as I had to move everything but the largest pieces of furniture out and set up shop in another part of the house while the space was painted and, given my personal slow painting process, it would take a couple of weeks to get the space done. I decided to splurge and had the Humberto painter we’ve used on other projects, like the north hallway and studio building, handle this painting project.
Then I took some good shots of the space for the Sherman Williams ColorSnap app. It has yet to let me down, as I have had great success using it for our other painting projects. I selected two shades of a pretty rose that wasn’t too pink or too orange or too purple, and gave the numbers to Humberto. I then worked the schedule so that I would be on vacation while he painted.
A few days before my scheduled flight, I moved just about everything out of my office, pulled all the face plates for the plethora of phone and coaxial outlets in the walls (over a dozen) so they could be patched and sealed up prior to painting, and then I literally left the country for ten days. This is what things looked like when I left–my computer and desk were the last things moved out:
When I came back, everything looked gorgeous!
Then I spent several days putting everything back into its place.