Moving the Office

Most of you probably remember how pumped Brendt and I were to finish the office last October. We were finally able to use the space invader wall decals that we'd bought over a year before. Well, when we found out we were expecting a new addition to the family in November, we grudgingly decided that the office would really make the most reasonable room for a nursery. That being said, over the past few weeks we have been preparing a space in the basement for our desk and slowly but surely moving our office into the newly finished basement. I have pictures of our old office here for sentimental value. I remember taking these photos like it was yesterday. Who knew that less than a year after finishing this it would have to be transformed into an entirely different room...

My desk.
We painted the walls orange and gray, with the gray color to symbolize a computer screen for the aliens to march across.

Brendt's desk.

The aliens!

For the new space, we decided that painting a magnetic board on the wall might be kinda fun. Brendt also had the idea to build one of his famous floating shelves with built-in lighting for the space. Here's an abridged play-by-play:First, we measured and taped off a square of wall.

Next, we applied three coats of magnetic paint inside the square.

Then we peeled off the tape and Presto! Just as easy as it looks on TV. You can see the 2x2 support that Brendt mounted for his shelf over the magnetic board as well.

Up went the shelf and we conducted a few quick checks to the space.
Magnets stick to wall...check.

Lights in floating shelf work...check.
Then we added the border for the magnet board by simply nailing it to the wall.

This is pretty close to the finished project, but we still have some organizing to do. And magnets to buy to spruce up the board. You can tell in this picture that we finally got around to adding most of the upper trim to the walls as well. As far as trim goes, mostly we only have to add door frames and we are pretty much done with the basement!

A bonus picture of two of my favorite boys!