While I’m waiting for parts, the wife convinces me to do a refresh of the office.
The way it’s set up today is with a 10’ long desk for 2 along the right wall and a larger drawer base where we keep our office supplies and 31” desk for the iMac which is our family computer.
To the left of the drawer base is a close which we’ve stuffed with all kinds of junk (though my wife does keep it well organized)....here it is emptied ready for demo.
This closet was added by one of the two previous home owners who did a really hack job. Instead of finishing the drywall corner, they used edge molding where there was any angle transition between sheets. Thus kind of **** drives me nuts.
Our goal on this build is to remove the closet and replace it with a new large L-shaped desk with upper Cabinets. Good thing about the hackers is the addition was easily removed and the previous finish was still fully intact, even the fancy wall paper.
The whole family helped demo the tile floor next and then laid hardiebacker on one half of the room.
Oh, wanted to share this gem I found inside the closet wall after we demo’d it. The PO extended the wires from the original outlets (plug and switch) through these metal cover plates. Nice touch.
When I pulled them out of the box they shorted and blew the breaker. Hell of a thing to hid inside a wall cavity.
Here’s a better shot of the main desk before we disassembled it.
After doing so, we finished up the HardieBacker and Andrew and I then set all of the screws, a **** ton. I completely appreciate having Andrew lend a hand. Together we made short work of a non-trivial task.
I thought that I’d be able to lay the tile in about a day. Here’s all I got done...28 tiles (12” x 25”) in about 6 hours.
I thought larger tiles would be easier. I actually found them more difficult to level than 12x12’s. What made it so exhausting was going from crouch to standing maybe 5 or so times per tile. I’m wiped out.
