I’m no DIY’er
I’m no DIY’er
But that won’t stop me
As with many people my office is a spare bedroom in the basement, poor me! It’s a good sized room and has a large built-in storage area and is right next to our storage room. For a home office the layout is not bad, but it’s in the basement, so it’s dark, and, it’s in the basement, so it’s the last part of the house to be updated. The tile! oh my is it ugly. I’ve been looking at this tile for 3 years now and I decided I cannot take it anymore. Being, IN THE BASEMENT, and having tile floors on concrete and in Colorado, it is so cold in my office and my feet freeze. About a month ago, sitting at my desk, teeth chattering I hopped online and started looking at carpet. I had envisioned sisal carpeting with a beautiful area rug. Sisal carpet is not as economical (cheap) as I wanted to go. Plan B. sisal area rug! Did you know, Pottery Barn sells custom size rugs? I ordered the largest size that would fit in my office, 13’ x 13’. My office is a little larger than that so I would still have 6” showing on 3 sides and about 2’ on the fourth. Not wanting to spend a fortune on this area, since I don’t see clients in my office because, again, ITS IN THE BASEMENT, I decided to paint the tile floors. Could this even be done? off to Pinterest I go and low and behold I came across a lot of people that had discovered this before me. One of the videos showed the floors 5 years later, they still look good. Apparently, there are a lot of people with ugly tile, who is making this stuff? It didn’t look too difficult, a DIY project I could do. So the prep work begins! because I am lazy and the majority of the tile will be covered by the rug I make the decision to only paint the 2’ perimeter and two hallways. So I moved my desk into the family room and pushed the rest of the furniture to the center of the room and clean the floor with Simple Green and go back over with clear water and tape the trim. Writing this out, I realize, that doesn’t seem like a lot but by this point it is early afternoon and I’ve still got all the painting to do and I’ve decided to also paint the storage space and the attached bathroom. Just the thought had me overwhelmed.
Out to the garage I go to take inventory of the paint supplies I have before heading the local DIY big box store. Who do you suppose is sitting in front of my house? MY PAINTER!!! He had no idea it was my house and being in my painting clothes it took him a minute to recognize me. If that is not a sign, I don’t know what is. So yada, yada, yada… his crew is here painting the floors and bathroom. While they are here, I think I’m going to have him paint the doors as well. It’s something I’ve been debating for 5 years. All of our doors are stained natural wood, but I really want them to be black. We’re going to start with the doors in my office and see how I like it. I’ll post pictures when it’s done.