Adrienne's Office: Done!

We did it! Adrienne's office is finally done!

Before:

Looking in, from the door

Looking out, from the window

Day 1: Prepping & Patching

Once we took all of Adrienne's stuff out, we found another hole in the wall to patch. Cut down a couple shims & nailed them in place over the hole, hoping that they would look more or less like a shingle when we finish:

A piece of shim left over from that ended up fitting ok into the open spot on the side of the hole I patched the other day, too:

Next step: sand the drywall!

Adrienne in action

Me, covered in dust

After that, we cleaned up the dust & the Dirt of Ages from the shingled walls, & wrapped it up for the day.


Day 2: Priming

Painting these shingles is no joke, let me tell you.

Making it look easy!

It was a long day, but of course, we eventually finished:

We also discovered that the red thing that everyone, including real estate agents & contractors, has assumed was a pencil sharpener -- despite it's being 8 feet off the ground & not actually built like a pencil sharpener, if you stop & look at it -- is not, in fact, a pencil sharpener:

It has some string wound up inside it, so we're guessing that it may actually be some sort of old mechanical clothesline. Maybe dating from the time before Adrienne's office was built? I'll have to do some research.

I'll also have to help Zoey get this paint off her ear:

She comes by to inspect our work every couple of hours (to make sure we're on track, I suppose), & while she's touring the work site, she brushes up against things she shouldn't. At least she's not walking through the paint tray on her way through.


Day 3: The Top Coat! 

Big, big thanks to Amanda & Matt, again, for donating this can of paint to our endeavors! It's such a sharp color!

She's about half an hour from saying, "I will never paint a shingle ever again."

Another long day, but we are both happy to report that it's finished!

Here's the finished room:

Added a couple jacket hooks to the door:

Ok, I just have to brag that I eyeballed spacing these evenly from either side of the door, & when I measured later, I was only 1/16 of an inch off. Pretty good!

Added a new set of shelves:

And that's it! A couple touch ups, & her moving her stuff back in there are all that's left!