This room. Originally it was an office, then it got cleared out and was pretty much empty, except for some random bins. Then I finally got my ass in gear and had the ceiling fixed, which was a disaster in itself. So then the room sat again.
In a tiny bit of motivation, which I thought would spur further work, I disconnected all the electrical outlets so the room could be painted. The room sat again. Sometimes we would need to run the window AC unit and would not have to run an extension cord from the bathroom across the floor.
In another small moment of inspiration, we primed the walls in preparation of painting. That made a nice improvement, brightening the room, which was sort of a brownish shade. And then the room sat again. All this time, the conduit for the power is sitting outside, getting rained on and rusting slightly.
I brought the conduit inside finally and started at least making mental preparations to repaint it. At around the same time, I purchased the paint for the room, so there would be one less excuse for not working on it. The day came for painting and the color made the room more inviting. However, not having electric in the room made it uninviting. We still had the power cord running across the room.
The next idea for the room was painting the trim… black. It was a bold choice. While the trim was being done, I set to work finalizing the electric. I painted the conduit and drilled a hole through the cinder block so I could mount a power outlet outside. Then I reinstalled the conduit and outlet boxes, running the extra power line outside to the outlet outside. After it was all connected, I turned the power back on and it all worked without any fires. That’s a good sign.
Meanwhile, the black trim was turning into a wonderful design choice. Where the borders of the windows stood out in white paint against the dark brown aluminum frames, painting the borders black made the windows blend in.
The last major thing to do to the room is to curtain the windows so it doesn’t get so ungodly hot in there and also to provide a little privacy and less sun glare when I move my computer stuff in. Then, it’s putting some shelves on the wall and decorating.
Over the weekend, we queued up a couple of other projects to try and complete: an art wall in the bedroom, new curtains for the front window, and an exercise bar for the future garage.
PICTURES! PICTURES! PICTURES!