What I wanted to do with this room is give my fiance a quiet place where she can study. Now I know what you're thinking. This guy must be dating a college student! Wow! Actually my fiance is a little older than me and is studying to improve her skills. She really impresses me in that regard. I didn't want to study when my grades depended on it, let alone with personal betterment as my sole motivation. Anyways, I'll get there yet!
Anyways, basically before I cleaned up the office, the desks didn't even have room to put a laptop. There was all sorts of junk on there, most of them paper. It's amazing how many pieces of mail one can accumulate in such a short span. Either way, some of it got thrown away and others were placed in desk drawers because I was doing this as a surprise (which worked well in case you were wondering. She loved it!) and we'll need to go over those a little later on. There were also the decomposing remains of old computers. These are being kept so at some point we can cannibalize them and build a Linux server out of the spare parts. They were laying on the floor waiting for the day they could trip you. Those were moved to the closet.
I also went shopping for this room. I figured some fake plants would help with the environment of the room and I ended up buying two 6 foot fake mango trees (mangos not included). We also needed some desk lamps and those look pretty good on the desks. I was also thinking of getting one of those stereos where you plug your iPod/iPhone into, but most of them were not designed for the iPhone in mind, so I'll be getting one of those later.
I was glad that I started with the office. It is not one of the biggest rooms in the house. This allowed me to take a little extra time and get the hang of things. I was able to take a step back and see what I wanted to do and I was able to succeed. The second reason I'm glad I started with this room, is that it made my fiance very happy. I have included some pictures of the clean office. I hope you have enjoyed this riveting chapter in cleaning!
M.G. Farmer
2 comments:
Fab job. At our house, we don't have so much of a problem arranging as we do simply keeping things clean on a regular basis. We also struggle with living room furniture arrangement, which always tends to be an interesting discussion. At this point, I think we are waiting on re-arranging until we purchase a new TV, which will probably be wall mounted. Perhaps one of the later chapters could include a section of our house ;-).
make sure you dust too, with all those animals they leave a large amount of allergens. looks great man. keep up the good work.
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