Our Office, plus Charlie rocking out!

We never took any pictures of our office in the first year or so of living here, so I don't have any before pictures.  But I remembered this video Cliff made of Charlie our lab mix, which gives you an idea of the room.  
Originally the room was a covered porch, which the previous owners turned into a bedroom.  Using chipboard on the walls, paneling on two walls and brown paint everywhere.  Also the floor was just plywood, nothing else.  They covered the plywood with carpet, which smelled like dog and looked as if it had never been vacuumed.  So out it came and in came large Bacova rugs.  Bacova is a textile company, here in Alleghany County.  The make textiles and accessories for places like Lowe's, and Menard's.  Since my husband works there he often gets in on employee sale days and we can get a 9x12 rug, with a slight tear in it for $12. So below is the video of said room with a Bacova rug.

 





Shortly before we got married, Cliff's father came across a ton of Oakwood pieces that are rectangle in shape and originally intended to be sides of hospital beds.  They were free to a good home and he thought they would make nice flooring.  So the two of them spent a weekend installing this new floor, basically by gluing down the wood as if the were tiles.  I originally bought a blue color that looked great in the store, until I applied it to the walls.

 

Not to long later, my mom had mixed up some left over pain from her house painting jobs and created a tan color of sorts and so I used it to repaint the room.  It is better, but I will probably paint it a third color sometime.